The USC football program will receive two-year postseason ban, a reduction in scholarships and a forfeiture of wins from at least the 2004 season when the NCAA releases it sanctions on Thursday, a source told ESPN’s Shelley Smith.

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Could a UK company make an American Football game better than Madden?

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Two football players in the lingerie football league were put on probation after a photo shoot with Broward New Times featured them wearing shoulder pads “without authorization.”

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In parts of the country with unsuccessful NFL teams (or no NFL teams), college football is just as popular – and just as lucrative.

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An offensive lineman can’t do his job without “using his head,” one veteran says, but neuropathologists examining the brains of ex-NFL players have found trauma-related degeneration.

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If you ever doubt the depths of the corruption of college football, consider this: A college coach, Ed Orgeron, reportedly spent Tuesday night calling players and telling them not to attend class, and he apparently was not violating any NCAA rules in doing so.

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“Don’t let your kids play football,” he says. “Never.”

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Germany goalkeeper Robert Enke has died after being hit by a train in an apparent suicide, police confirm.

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You probably won’t be watching a toppled ACC powerhouse beat up on a erstwhile FBS team. But you should. Students of East Carolina — AT THE DIRECTION OF THEIR ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT, NO LESS — are going to be dressing up as pirates in the world’s first (and hopefully not last) “Pirate Out.”

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While a football referee lay bleeding on the field, team members of the man responsible refused to hand over their cell phones so someone could call 911.

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