The Front Porch Newsletter

Today's newsletter looks at the University of Houston and its long, arduous road back to major college football

Houston's long road back to the big time Thirty years after it was left for dead, the Cougars are back in a major conference. Let's take a look at their rise, fall and rebirth

Jim Brown, who died last week at age 87, is widely considered one of the best college football players ever, if not the greatest. But in 1956, he lost his final chance at a Heisman Trophy to a quarterback from a 2-8 team who threw three touchdowns and 13 interceptions.

A look back at one of the most bizarre and regrettable Heisman votes ever

Jim Brown and the puzzling 1956 Heisman Trophy vote Brown, who died last week, is regarded as one of the best college football players ever, if not the greatest. So how did he lose out on the sport's biggest prize to a quarterback from a 2-8 team?

Over the past week, the intersection of legal sports betting and college athletics has been as busy as ever.

It's not anything particularly new, though. The history of NCAA sports is littered with point-shaving incidents. Perhaps none are quite as interesting as the saga that unfolded with Tulane men's basketball in the mid-1980s, an episode involving a projected first-round NBA Draft pick, co***ne, Harry Connick Jr's father and the ultimate disbanding of a program

The wild saga and lasting legacy of the Tulane point-shaving scandal With gambling on college sports back in the news, let's take a look back at one of the more interesting intersections between sports betting and college athletics.

Over the past several years, college athletes have picked up several hard-earned rights: being able to transfer without penalty and earning money off their name, image and likeness, among other things

But with roster purges like what's taking place under Deion Sanders at Colorado, we're seeing the counterweight to athlete empowerment

We're witnessing the counterweight to college athlete empowerment With college athletes now capable of earning NIL money and transferring without penalty, some coaches and administrators feel entitled to treat them differently -- and sometimes harshly.