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Twitter is a lot like a firearm. If you don't know how to use it, you should just keep your hands off of it. According to The Orlando Sentinel, Oklahoma Sooners head coach Bob Stoops suspended wide receiver Jaz Reynolds indefinitely on Wednesday for insensitive comments he'd made on his Twitter account about the recent shooting at the University of Texas in Austin. Reynolds wrote, "Hey everyone ...

Earlier this season, the University of Oklahoma Sooners football team began wearing In Case of Emergency Dot (ICEDOT) chips during games. The small red disks, which clip onto a jersey, can securely store a patient's entire medical history, and give emergency workers immediate access to it via an eight-digit PIN. Not only is it much faster to access digital records than paper records at the ...

Niche social networking runs rampant, and the latest site to match up particular bedfellows is, according to Wired, designed to bring together college football recruiters and high school football players. Created by the son of an NFL broadcaster, Play Next Level is a place where kids who dream of playing college pigskin can create profiles to attract recruiters (and maybe earn a scholarship). So ...

ESPN immediately embraced the arrival of 3-D TV, and the network's compatible catalog continues to expand. With the 16th edition of the Summer X Games already kicking off on ESPN 3D, the network has also revealed the first three college football battles to air on the specialized channel. In total, 13 games will receive the 3-D treatment, with the remainder of the telecasts to be revealed "as the ...

As Pete Carroll or Reggie Bush could tell you, working around the NCAA's semi-ridiculous rules on recruiting high school football players can be a pretty arduous task. And, apparently, it gets even more difficult when Facebook's involved. Last month, the football program at the University of Florida was slapped with secondary NCAA violations, simply because one of the team's coaches posted ...

The Free World has barely had a week to recover from the earth-shattering death of Uga, the lovable bulldog mascot for the University of Georgia, but People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has wasted no time in recommending a replacement. The nomination? A robot. As reported by WGAU 1340AM in Athens, Georgia, PETA thinks that the next Uga should either be some sort of "animatronic" ...

The Southeastern Conference (S.E.C.), one of the most powerful organizations in college athletics, had to rethink its Big Brother-esque social media policy due to an outcry from fans and media alike. Although done so begrudgingly, it's significant that a conference rooted in decades-old traditions is willing to accept change. According to al.com, the S.E.C. reversed a policy Wednesday that ...