Over the weekend, news of Michigan’s alleged NCAA violations, stemming from their usually-storied football program, emerged.  The NCAA says that mandatory workouts during the offseason should be no more than eight hours a week…but these kids were putting in full days.  Off days after games should have no more than a small number of hours [...]

You may have noticed UPH’s tendency to say “yum” to the guys we like.  In the past few posts, we know we’ve namechecked Bobby Boswell of the Dynamo, Johnny Damon, Derek Jeter, Jason Giambi (oh God. Are we closet Yankees fans?!?) and Tony Hawk.
Here’s today’s possible yum. We’re not sure yet:
The Brigham Young football team.  [...]

Appalachian State’s football team has been something of a media darling since upsetting Michigan in 2007.  Also, that pageant chick with the terrible case of babbling was quoted saying she aspired to go there!
But today, Appalachian State had some bad news: their quarterback, three-time All-American Armanti Edwards, is out for 2-4 weeks with….a mowing injury?  [...]

When UPH was growing up, we heard occasional stories like this one, in which a brave high schooler says “screw it” to stereotypes and joins the football team at her school.  We were always impressed, and kinda-sorta wished we could join in, but we have this unfortunate habit of falling over.
So, we couldn’t join a [...]