The N. Period

With the announcement last week that the SMU football team would be sporting "new" uniforms, I felt the need to bring up the Mustangs' schizophrenic handling of the color blue. Now I'm not old enough to remember, but I can't recall ever seeing the SMU athletic teams wearing anything but royal before the mid to late 1990s. But navy was the preferred hue of blue that the football team adopted in 2003. And there seems to be no explanation for this at all.

New SMU football head coach is proving very quickly that he's not playing games and that he has no favorites. Last season's record-setting junior quarterback Justin Willis has been suspended from spring practice and his name has been removed from the roster on the school's official website. Wow.

Six years and $13 million dollars. Those were the terms that the Atlanta Hawks agreed to in 1989 when they signed 7'0" center Jon Koncak to a backup role. The figure may not sound like much by today's terms, but Koncak contract is largely responsible for that fact as it threw the NBA salary scale completely out of whack. Consider this: Koncak's signing meant that the Hawks were paying him…

According to this article from the USA Today, University of Hawaii head football coach June Jones resigned this morning from his position with the school, furthering speculation that Jones may be the man to fill the postion left vacant after SMU head coach Phil Bennett's firing on October 28. Apparently Jones is en route to Dallas to discuss the job with SMU Athletic Director Steve Orsini…