http://ftrsports.com The Anti-Nerd of Sports Blogs. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:02:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://ftrsports.com/2012/02/recuit-chooses-auburn-because-theres-a-chick-fil-a-on-campus/ http://ftrsports.com/2012/02/recuit-chooses-auburn-because-theres-a-chick-fil-a-on-campus/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:30:27 +0000 David Sacco http://ftrsports.com/?p=164860684 Birmingham, Alabama linebacker Cassanova McKinzy signed with Auburn instead of Clemson, but not for the typically reasons. He chose Auburn because the Clemson campus lacked a certain something close to his heart.]]> http://ftrsports.com/2012/02/recuit-chooses-auburn-because-theres-a-chick-fil-a-on-campus/feed/ 0 http://ftrsports.com/2012/02/michigan-labeled-that-team-up-north-on-osu-football-schedule/ http://ftrsports.com/2012/02/michigan-labeled-that-team-up-north-on-osu-football-schedule/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:04:24 +0000 Charles Drengberg http://ftrsports.com/?p=164860636 Native Ohioan and recently hired Urban Meyer knows the way to a Buckeye's heart, and that way is treating the University of Michigan the way coaching legend Woody Hayes did. By refusing to call them anything but "That team up north".]]> http://ftrsports.com/2012/02/michigan-labeled-that-team-up-north-on-osu-football-schedule/feed/ 0 http://ftrsports.com/2012/01/joe-paterno-dies-at-85-surrounded-by-controversy/ http://ftrsports.com/2012/01/joe-paterno-dies-at-85-surrounded-by-controversy/#comments Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:57:04 +0000 David Sacco http://ftrsports.com/?p=164860284 The the age of 85, the most iconic and winningest coach in college football history passed Sunday Morning. The cause of death was listed as complications with spreading lung cancer. All of us know, however, he really died from a broken heart, after the career he lived for and the legacy he spent 61 years building was stripped from him when the school cleaned house amid a child molestation scandal involving former assistant head-coach Jerry Sandusky. ]]> http://ftrsports.com/2012/01/joe-paterno-dies-at-85-surrounded-by-controversy/feed/ 0 http://ftrsports.com/2012/01/alabama-fan-tea-bags-passed-out-lsu-fan-video/ http://ftrsports.com/2012/01/alabama-fan-tea-bags-passed-out-lsu-fan-video/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:37:26 +0000 David Sacco http://ftrsports.com/?p=164860220 After taking home the BCS Championship in a 21-0 victory over LSU, Bama fans pounce on this poor, inebriated LSU fan as if he was one of their cousins. Passed out and unable to defend himself he is subjected to water being dumped on him, empty fast food containers being stacked on him, fingers in his nose and mouth, and balls on his face.]]> http://ftrsports.com/2012/01/alabama-fan-tea-bags-passed-out-lsu-fan-video/feed/ 11 http://ftrsports.com/2012/01/title-game-letdown-oklahoma-state-coach-believes-cowboys-would-have-been-better/ http://ftrsports.com/2012/01/title-game-letdown-oklahoma-state-coach-believes-cowboys-would-have-been-better/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:18:48 +0000 Hamish Nieh http://ftrsports.com/?p=164860108 After the first shutout in BCS National Championship history, many of us were left unsatisfied... or at least kind of sleepy. A one-sided field goal fest will do that to an audience, no matter how unreliable the kickers are (see Alabama's Josh Shelley and Cade Foster).]]> http://ftrsports.com/2012/01/title-game-letdown-oklahoma-state-coach-believes-cowboys-would-have-been-better/feed/ 3 http://ftrsports.com/2012/01/osu-football-player-charged-with-dui/ http://ftrsports.com/2012/01/osu-football-player-charged-with-dui/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:38:15 +0000 Charles Drengberg http://ftrsports.com/?p=164860124 Sophomore cornerback, Dominic Clarke, was arrested under suspicion of DUI after allegedly speeding through a stop sign late Saturday night in Columbus, Ohio. On Thursday, he entered a not guilty plea in a Franklin County court.]]> http://ftrsports.com/2012/01/osu-football-player-charged-with-dui/feed/ 0 http://ftrsports.com/2012/01/karma-setting-in-former-penn-state-official-undergoes-lung-cancer-treatment/ http://ftrsports.com/2012/01/karma-setting-in-former-penn-state-official-undergoes-lung-cancer-treatment/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:30:47 +0000 Charles Drengberg http://ftrsports.com/?p=164860101 Former Penn State Athletic Director, Tim Curley is accused of covering up the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse case, and faces perjury charges around his testimony in the grand jury indictment. Tim's wife, Melinda Curley, released a statement recently that doctors had:]]> http://ftrsports.com/2012/01/karma-setting-in-former-penn-state-official-undergoes-lung-cancer-treatment/feed/ 0 http://ftrsports.com/2012/01/bobby-hebert-rants-at-les-miles-during-post-game-presser/ http://ftrsports.com/2012/01/bobby-hebert-rants-at-les-miles-during-post-game-presser/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:38:40 +0000 Mike O. http://ftrsports.com/?p=164860068 Bobby Hebert, a former New Orleans Saints QB and current sports talk radio host in Louisiana, was unhappy with Les Miles' decision to stick with Jordan Jefferson in the BCS National Championship Game last night against Alabama. And he wasn't afraid to let Miles know it.]]> http://ftrsports.com/2012/01/bobby-hebert-rants-at-les-miles-during-post-game-presser/feed/ 0 http://ftrsports.com/2012/01/michigan-kicker-brendan-gibbons-was-dreaming-of-brunette-girls-when-he-hit-the-game-winner/ http://ftrsports.com/2012/01/michigan-kicker-brendan-gibbons-was-dreaming-of-brunette-girls-when-he-hit-the-game-winner/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:39:48 +0000 Mike O. http://ftrsports.com/?p=164859928 When asked what was going through his mind as he lined up for the game winning kick in the 2012 Sugar Bowl, Michigan kicker Brendan Gibbons calmly responded that he was dreaming of girls on the beach. ]]> http://ftrsports.com/2012/01/michigan-kicker-brendan-gibbons-was-dreaming-of-brunette-girls-when-he-hit-the-game-winner/feed/ 3 http://ftrsports.com/2012/01/video-virginia-tech-back-runs-for-22-yard-loss-in-sugar-bowl/ http://ftrsports.com/2012/01/video-virginia-tech-back-runs-for-22-yard-loss-in-sugar-bowl/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:18:38 +0000 Charles Drengberg http://ftrsports.com/?p=164859913 Texas A&M's David "Wrong Way" Wilson had everyone at tonight's Sugar Bowl in New Orleans thinking touchdown, until he ran it the wrong way for a 22 yard loss.]]> http://ftrsports.com/2012/01/video-virginia-tech-back-runs-for-22-yard-loss-in-sugar-bowl/feed/ 5