Total Sports Report

     The conclusion of an FBI investigation charging four assistant college basketball coaches of bribery and fraud shocked the sports world last month, leading to four different schools firing assistant coaches for their involvement in the scandal as well as Louisville Head Coach Rick Pitino. Adidas paid big money to coaches to influence top recruits to play for schools affiliated with their brand, one of those schools being Louisville.      In this article, I want to look at the five schools affected by this investigation, and give you, the reader, a good look at what exactly to expect this season from these schools.  Louisville Cardinals How they were involved - Louisville was an Adidas sponsored school that paid families of top recruits over $150,000 to make sure that these players committed to Louisville. With the sanctions already laid on Louisville from the prostitutes scandal, the Cardinals Athletic Department felt it was time to ...

Anyone who knows me, and my interests in sports, knows that in my opinion, there is no better football conference with more flair, more dramatics and more entertainment then the SEC. It's unpredictability make it a challenge for analysts like myself to cover, predict and report as any given Saturday can change the state of a football program. Any SEC team can win on any field, and it is simply the best and the most competitive conference in College Football. Spring Games are the beginning of a new season in college football. We get our first looks at the new faces joining our teams, the faces replacing the old who are gone and moved on, and the next set of stars shine on the field for the first time.  The Auburn Spring Game this season really intrigued me. With several early enrollees and a new transfer quarterback in Jarrett Stidham from Baylor, a sophomore with a cannon for an arm, making a run at the starting job on Sean White, last season's starter, it was a Spr...