The author remembers Joe Paterno:

There was a fixity in Paterno. He had one house in State College. He wore the same shoes on game days, a pair of black Nikes. The roll in the khakis was, I’m guessing, at least three turns of the cuff, and never less or more. The hair stood in an immobile, sweeping bouffant. He spent 60 years of his life in one place doing the same thing every day, running the same route to stay fit, eating the same things, being married to the same woman, and writing the same longhand letters to recruits until 2011, when someone finally put him in front of a Mac and pointed him toward the camera. If he had lived to the age of 115, he would have used this same computer until the age of 115.

The author visits the Big Easy, the season’s final resting place.

How radio host Paul Finebaum keeps the SEC’s Dixie Aroused.

The magic carpet ride began for Boise State with the unbelievable finish to the 2007 Fiesta Bowl, but what became of the heroic prince and the beautiful princess who waltzed into a nation’s embrace that night? How did their fairy tale turn out?

Boise State’s Kellen Moore is as imposing as a grocery sacker and barely faster than a lineman, but he’s about to become the winningest quarterback in history. Here’s his secret.

A profile of the University of Michigan football coach:

Who saw Brady Hoke coming? It seems like the most unlikely end-around in the history of Michigan football. How did he get here? Look closely. Block out the fans and media and bands — and the polls and controversies and play calling. Don’t pay attention to the golden-boy quarterbacks or the super-athletic receivers. Focus on that single X in the middle of the field, that inside linebacker ramming straight ahead into the ball carrier.

A University of Miami booster, incarcerated for his role in a $930 million Ponzi scheme, has told Yahoo! Sports he provided thousands of impermissible benefits to at least 72 athletes from 2002 through 2010.

In 100 hours of jailhouse interviews during Yahoo! Sports’ 11-month investigation, Hurricanes booster Nevin Shapiro described a sustained, eight-year run of rampant NCAA rule-breaking, some of it with the knowledge or direct participation of at least seven coaches from the Miami football and basketball programs. At a cost that Shapiro estimates in the millions of dollars, he said his benefits to athletes included but were not limited to cash, prostitutes, entertainment in his multimillion-dollar homes and yacht, paid trips to high-end restaurants and nightclubs, jewelry, bounties for on-field play including bounties for injuring opposing players, travel and, on one occasion, an abortion.

Fraud. Cheating. Where’s the joy in the college game these days? Everywhere from Stanford to South Carolina.

A die-hard Alabama fan is about to be tried for allegedly poisoning Auburn’s beloved oak trees. To understand why someone would do this, you have to look at the fan’s roots.

On the Ohio State president and an ill-fated joke.

A profile of Randy Moss from his college days at Marshall.

There is no magic bullet for recovering from a storm like the one that devastated Tuscaloosa on that April day. But for a city like Tuscaloosa, where the Alabama football program is all but woven into the community’s DNA, the approach of the 2011 season will do more than its fair share to help people put it behind them.