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Mark Schipper

Yale's JJ Hogan Was An Early Name, Image, & Likeness (NIL) Star In College Football

The colleges were making lucrative financial deals with elite football players long before Name, Image, and Likeness existed.

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Red Grange, the Iceman, Helped Make the NFL Cool while Showing College Athletes How to Turn Pro

Red Grange of the University of Illinois, known equally well as the Wheaton Iceman and the Galloping Ghost, was turning pro.

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Fear Came for College Football: NCAA's TV Takeover Created Conditions for Conference Re-Alignment

By Mark Schipper Within the next four years, whenever the universities of Texas and Oklahoma are allowed to fly from the Big 12 and...

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Pittsburgh Panthers' Players Turned Down 1938 Rose Bowl As National Champs, the Money Wasn't Right

By Mark Schipper "The only high-school in the country that gives a college degree," Upton Sinclair Pitt lost 24-straight games to Big Ten...

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Modern NCAA Conference Commissioner was Forged in Fiery Destruction of the Pacific Coast Conference

By Mark Schipper George Kliavkoff, a major operator in digital-television and a sports-entertainment executive at MGM Resorts...

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Infamous Fifth Down Game that Inspired 5th Down College Football Website was a Brouhaha for the Ages

The infamous Fifth Down Game between Colorado and Missouri is part of college football's living history, and helped name this website.

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University of Texas Defied Trends by Stepping Back to Consider Merits in "Eyes of Texas" Controversy

By Mark Schipper The Eyes of Texas, a cultural pillar at the Lone Star State's flagship university, and a song with tenuous linkages to...

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The Ballad of Walter Eckersall and the Snake Born Eating its Tail

By Mark Schipper There’s no shattered visage on the ground next to Walter Eckersall’s grave marker at Oak Woods cemetery, but the lone...

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Palmer House Hotel in Chicago, Where Big Ten Conference was Founded, Has Closed

By Mark Schipper A strange sort of desolation has settled over the legendary Palmer House in the heart of Chicago’s downtown Loop, the...

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NCAA Delays Vote on New Compensation and Transfer Rules, but Revolution Remains a Real Threat

By Mark Schipper College athletics under the NCAA’s rule have become a Byzantine mess, which the current push to grant student-athletes...

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Greed Comes for College Football: Knight Commission Recommends FBS Leave the N.C.A.A.

Some time while you're looking out over the television strip-mining operations that blight the otherwise handsome landscape of college...