The USC Trojans recently put up 30 billboards around Southern California featuring a hopeful Matt Barkley’s face and the slogan, “We Play To Finish” emblazoned to the left. That’s OK. What wasn’t OK for someone, or some entity, was the fact that one of those billboards was a short walk from UCLA’s campus. The details, after the jump.

This posting on The Landlord Protection Agency could turn out to be very fake. But hopefully it isn’t, and hopefully for unsuspecting Bears fan deep in Packers country, they’ll get to keep their place.

Sure, Alec Baldwin and John Krasinski spent all year making light of it, but rest assured: the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry is no joke. It’s so not a joke, in fact, that it apparently can’t even tolerate a joke being made. That’s the contention of Yankee Stadium beer vendor Steve Lazarus, who said he simply joked around with Red Sox pitcher Alfredo Aceves – a former Yankee, no less – before a recent game…and got himself a two-game playoff suspension for it.

Iowa and Iowa State have one of the better football rivalries you don’t hear much about. Sure, Iowa’s the much more decorated program historically and beats ISU more often than not, but it’s a heated matchup…one that deserves a better trophy than this.

The NFL playoffs will place one of the sport’s oldest rivalries at the forefront when the Packers and Bears square off for a spot in the Super Bowl this weekend. But what was it like the last time these two teams met in the playoffs – almost 70 years ago?

Oklahoma Sooners receiver Jaz Reynolds was suspended indefinitely by head coach Bob Stoops after an offensive tweet following the shooting at UT Austin, and will miss today’s Red River Rivalry game between the Sooners and the Texas Longhorns.