Are you like me?  Have you been searching the internet and your favorite blogs to find out what has been going on in the first week of college football practices?  It’s August in Texas, and it is hot.  Two-a-days in Texas have begun from El Paso to Fort Worth, to Texarkana.  If you need a cool off, and you still want football, I have an article for you.  Da Wiz posted an article that tells the story of the first football game of the season anywhere, in Alaska.  And, it was cold.  Check out the article.

Ever woundered what happened to Wendell Barnhouse.  Barnhouse covered college sports for years at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.  He was a veteran, and was well respected around the country.  Well, he left the Star-Telegram to write for, of all things, a website.  Barnhouse now covers the Big 12 full time at Big12Sports.com.  He is the Big 12 Insider, you’ll find the link in the navigation bar on the top right.  Right now he is doing a Bottom 25 at The Wizard of Odds.  Guess who is number 25?  SMU.  It doesn’t seem that Barnhouse thinks the Ponies will stay there.

“Is there hope?: Yes. Jones proved at Hawaii that he is capable of resurrecting losing programs. Phil Bennett, Jones’ predecessor, did a good job of recruiting and the school’s stringent academic guidelines have been softened. The pass-happy run-and-shoot (mostly shoot) offense Jones prefers is similar to the schemes used by most successful high school programs in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.”

As some have noticed, it’s a little hard to find something to talk about in sports right now.  We have just hit a slow time.  This past weekend, we saw a Tiger make a valiant effort to win the US Open.  This week, the Celtics finished off LA with a whap, and now the NBA is done.  There is Arena Football, which is fun to watch, but nobody really talks about it.  Major League Baseball is just getting started, and it has a long way to go to be interesting (not that I really care anyway),  And, a couple weeks ago, Lord Stanley found a new home.

There is racing, and, well, it may have more fans than any.  NASCAR, Indy, IMCA, World of Outlaws, and other assorted series around this country are really getting revved up.  I love dirt racing, particularly late model racing.  My favorite site for reading about late model racing is Latemodelracer.  And, while I think that racing is a legitimate sport and worth keeping up with, it rarely makes the headlines of a sports page.  Unless there is a fight.

Now, with all of that behind us, it is officially late June.  What does that mean?  Next stop, football.  All of the preseason magazines are out, giving us almost two months to digest what the experts think will happen this fall.  Gosh, what would we do the rest of the summer?  Of course, we here at Collegefootballtopten.com talk college football.  Therefore, next stop for us is college football.  I’ll leave the pros for someone else.

As for me, I will glancing Inthebleachers, listening to the Sunday Morning QB, searching for the Wizard of Odds, and writing about our Fanblogs.