Stanford 4th, Cal 7th in Pac-10 picks

In the annual preseason poll of the media who regularly cover the league, the Trojans nearly were voted the favorite for the conference title.

Minnesota Vikings open camp without Brett Favre

Joe McKnight fails conditioning run with New York Jets

Auburn as champion?

Tommy Tuberville has been known to get into trouble because he has this nasty habit of speaking his mind.

NFL training camp roundup: Albert Haynesworth fails conditioning test

Friday Fodder: Wac is not a one-horse conference

Sports fodder for a Friday morning . . . Predicting how the Western Athletic Conference football teams will finish every year is sort of like predicting the ending of every Gilligan’s Island episode.

New Orleans Saints pleased with Bobby McCrays commitment

USC stripped of title? That’s so last month

Where were you this summer when USC football was stripped of its 2004 Bowl Championship Series title? Actually, it wasn’t announced by the BCS, reported in newspapers or touted on ESPN’s crawl.

New Orleans Saints Marques Colston had offseason knee surgery

New Orleans Saints comment of the day: Why the Saints will repeat