Today’s Chorus is brought to you by Mizzou’s Jon Hamm, who got richer this week. Don’t let the money cramp your saxy style, Jon. Don’t do it.
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• Former UNC coach John Blake has a reputation, and part of that reputation includes biology charisma.
• Former USC WR Lonnie White (early-mid 80’s) received payments while playing for the Trojans. It all sounds about right until you hear who paid him … NCAA PRESIDENT MARK EMMERT!!!! <— I made that up.
• Florida needs warm bodies. If they don’t get them, EDSBS’s Spencer Hall may be forced to shoot video trying out for the team. He might die. Let’s save Spencer.
• New Michigan coach Brady Hoke is poking the bear. Ahem, bear cub.
• ESPN’s Heater Dinich (new name!) ranks ACC WR corps.
• If you’re more bored than you’ve ever been, please accept this offering of ESPN’s best SEC kickers and punters, plus special teams. Please.
• ESPN’s Brian Bennett has a brief profile of new starting Iowa RB Marcus Coker.
• Bennett’s ESPN B1G Ten partner Adam Rittenberg handles the receivers and tight ends. That sounded wrong.
• ESPN’s Ted Miller speculates on the Pac-12’s impact freshmen. Oregon State apparently has an incoming DE named Rusty Fernando. That is all.
• Football Study Hall previews Tennessee with no mention of Tyler Bray’s tattoo. And they were on such a roll, too.
• Terrelle Pryor got his own Jon Gruden segment. You can hear him apologize for nothing in particular all over again.
• Notre Dame players have new gloves that test the limits of multi-headed mascots.
• SI.com’s Stewart Mandel had the gall to take a honeymoon when so much was going on in college football. He catches up here.
• Auburn‘s getting early points from Vegas in pretty much all of their 2011 games.
• Iowa St RB DeVondrick Nealy was cited for shootin’ stuff on campus with a BB gun. Way to go.
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Today’s Video of the Day is your 90s childhood quickly flashed before your eyes. It’s more traumatic than you think.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0DDQ02vAeY
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