{"id":2497,"date":"2010-12-30T10:52:20","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T16:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2010-12-30T10:52:20","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T16:52:20","slug":"nsrs-2010-top-college-sports-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/nsrs-2010-top-college-sports-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"NSR’s 2010 Top College Sports Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"
John Wooden’s Impact on Sports and American Life is #1<\/strong><\/div>\n
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\"\"<\/a>In this blog, we chronicle the ongoing saga of college athletics.\u00a0 With 24\/7 news outlets, blogs and investigative reporters constantly releasing stories\u00a0at a feverish pace, it can at times be\u00a0difficult to decide which pieces deserve our full attention.\u00a0 Nonetheless, some\u00a0key events\u00a0have\u00a0such an impact on\u00a0college sports that they warrant rising to the top of this year’s list.\u00a0 Here, then, are our picks as the Top Ten\u00a0College Sports Stories of 2010:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n
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  1. The life and death\u00a0of John Wooden.\u00a0<\/strong> No one in history has had the influence over, or significantly touched, as many people in college sports as the former UCLA men’s basketball coach.\u00a0\u00a0When the other stories on this list\u00a0have been long forgotten, Coach Wooden’s wisdom will still be felt and remembered.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n
  2. Reggie Bush returns the Heisman Trophy.<\/strong>\u00a0 For the first time ever, a Heisman recipient returned the most coveted prize in college football, if not in all of college sports.\u00a0<\/li>\n
  3. Conference realignment merry-go-round.\u00a0<\/strong> The quest for more and more money has driven college sports into a new era.\u00a0 High-profile conferences are raiding neighboring conferences of its members so that conference\u00a0football title games can be played, which of course\u00a0creates more revenue.\u00a0 Where it stops, no one knows.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n
  4. The selling of Cam Newton.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0An NCAA investigation\u00a0ascertained that Newton’s father, through an intermediary, attempted to coerce Mississippi State University into paying\u00a0upwards of $180,000.00 for his son’s services.\u00a0 The plan failed, so Cam plays on at Auburn.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n
  5. UConn\u2019s winning streak uncovered.<\/strong>\u00a0 Never has so little been made of such an amazing accomplishment.\u00a0 Geno Auriemma used three different teams to equal then surpass UCLA’s record of 88 consecutive wins.\u00a0 The basketball world yawned and moved on.\u00a0<\/li>\n
  6. Butler\u2019s improbable run was<\/em> March madness.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Butler University’s men’s basketball team nearly won the NCAA title by advancing to the final game against the vaunted\u00a0Duke Blue Devils.\u00a0 Had Bulldog Gordon Hayward’s last shot not banged off the back of the rim, we would still be wondering if Coach K\u00a0had lost his magic touch for winning another championship ring.\u00a0 Instead, his genius is confirmed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n
  7. BCS championship formula criticized, again.<\/strong>\u00a0 With fans clamoring for a\u00a0season-ending tournament, the BCS steadfastly ignores the pleas, thumbs its nose\u00a0and keeps the money.\u00a0<\/li>\n
  8. USC penalized.<\/strong>\u00a0 Gone is the athletic director, head coach and star athlete.\u00a0 Left in their place is a long, long list of their indiscretions and subsequent penalties levied by the NCAA which could paralyze the Trojans football and basketball programs for years to come.<\/li>\n
  9. Terrelle Pryor’s short sale.<\/strong>\u00a0 The NCAA stumbled\u00a0into a Columbus tattoo parlor which led to a series of accusations and eventual penalties which rained down upon the Ohio State quarterback and four of his buds.\u00a0<\/li>\n
  10. \u00a0 Northern Iowa beats top-seeded Kansas.<\/strong>\u00a0 Of all the upsets this past year, and there were many, this was the most compelling.\u00a0 A last second shot by NIU sank one of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament favorites to shake the event like dice in a tin cup.\u00a0\u00a0It was a harbinger of things to\u00a0come.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    John Wooden’s Impact on Sports and American Life is #1 \u00a0 In this blog, we chronicle the ongoing saga of college athletics.\u00a0 With 24\/7 news outlets, blogs and investigative reporters constantly releasing stories\u00a0at a feverish pace, it can at times be\u00a0difficult to decide which pieces deserve our full attention.\u00a0 Nonetheless, some\u00a0key events\u00a0have\u00a0such an impact on\u00a0college … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}