All across the nation today, 17 and 18-year-old males will be signing and faxing in their letter of intent to play college football. Tuition, books, room and board, a food stipend, and unbelievable exposure to big-time alumni connections for future job prospects accompany each scholarship.

That chance to compete for a starting spot right away; the chance to shine and win a Heisman Trophy; the chance to wear the coolest, flashest uniform and be seen on ESPN, ultimately having the opportunity to make it to the NFL. For two-to-three years prior, the best high school football players have received hundreds of letters from some of the top college football programs detailing why they should consider playing at Notre Dame, the University of Southern California, Alabama, Texas, or Oklahoma. 

They have received phone call after phone call; text after text; and in-house visits from coaches and recruiters representing these schools, not to mention the on-campus visits with all expenses paid by the school in attempts to entice these talented athletes to spend four years (at least, hypothetically) representing the university or college on the gridiron.

Big money is devoted to recruiting: in the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the University of Tennessee spent an average of $1.15 million a year on recruiting from 2005 – 2008. The return on investment hasn’t exactly panned out, unless you count a high arrest rate as a some kind of off-the-field victory. And a pitiful graduation rate—well, unless you include White players—for those highly sought after, Black recruits, the majority of who have no business attending the university save for their perceived athletic superiority.

Thus far, one writer has documented the insanity surrounding the recruiting business. In Meat Market, Bruce Feldman shows us the insane lengths that the football coaches at the University of Mississippi will go in trying to secure the top high-school (or junior-college) talent in America.

Today's BCS National Championship game in New Orleans will feature a rematch of the University of Alabama and Louisiana State University. It's difficult to get excited about what the sports media has dubbed the “Game of the Century,” when it is a replay of an earlier “Game of the Century” that proved less than thrilling . . .

Back in 1969, the original “Game of the Century” was played between two all-White teams from the University of Arkansas and Texas University. (At the time, Blacks made threats of violence and disruptive behavior if the Razorback band played “Dixie.”) Almost 43 years later, the championship game will feature two, more or less, all-Black squads, and it will be played in the Super Dome, a stadium intrinsically linked with the anarchic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, when Black refugees raped and murdered one another on astroturf. 

One wonders whether the football-crazed alumni and student body of both schools will think about these incidents while watching the Tide and Tigers battle for the national title. One wonders whether 'Bama boosters will think about the bankruptcy of Jefferson County, home to 72-percent-Black Birmingham, and what this will mean for the future of their state. One wonders whether LSU fans will worry about the growing rates of almost 100-percent-Black violent crime in New Orleans, or similar situations near their campus in Baton Rogue.

Likely, all that matters to them is that the Tide or that the Tigers pull out the victory and grant either school a year's worth of bragging rights. It's unpleasant to dwell on reality.

Millions will watch, not able to tell you why. It’s a game that doesn’t matter, but it’s a game that matters very much. Army/Navy. One of the proud traditions in all of American sport, this annual college football game between the United States Military Academy and United States Naval Academy is best described in these words from Sports Illustrated’s Joe Posanski:

Army-Navy football feels as if it was preserved in a snow globe many years ago. All that's missing for the game in Philadelphia this year is the snow. Everything is blue and gray, even the sky. Older men wear fedoras and homburgs, young couples hold hands, and the gates overflow with happy people in somber overcoats. Someone shouts, "Get your program here!" The sports world, the real world, changes so rapidly, but not Army-Navy. Here it is perpetually 1948, and America is strong. The Midshipmen march into the stadium in perfect rhythm, and the Cadets march in perfect rhythm, and tomorrow looks bright.

Why does Army-Navy still matter? Neither team has been a national championship contender in two generations. Many years, neither team is even a bowl contender. The schools stubbornly cling to the worn-out triple-option offense years after even the most stubborn warhorses, such as Nebraska and Alabama, gave it up. In today's world of wildcats and spreads and pistols, Army-Navy can look more like a reenactment than a football game.

“Preserved in a snow globe” is the perfect way to describe what will be on display for a national television audience on CBS. Few, if any, NFL scouts will be in attendance to watch a football game that features two teams running a variation of the option/triple-option/Wing-T attack.*

Posanski should just come out and say why he thinks the Army/Navy looks more like a “reenactment” than a modern college football game. Both teams have majority White starters, and their rosters are full of White players that few other colleges dared recruit.

Forty-one years ago, President Richard Nixon attended “The Game of the Century” between No.2 Texas and No.1 Arkansas. The Longhorns would win the game 15-14. From today's standpoint, the most noteworthy aspect of this titanic matchup is that both teams featured all-White teams.

Richard Nixon congratulates the Texas Longhorns, 1969 

Flash forward to this past weekend––No. 1 Louisiana State University and No.2 Alabama met in the latest version of “The Game of the Century” in Tuscaloosa. This time around, the POTUS was not in attendance, and the game itself proved to be a less-than-thrilling 9-6 virtual stalemate. But much like that game in 1969, the overwhelmingly majority of the some 90,000 in attendance at Bryant-Denny Stadium were White. But quite unlike Texas vs. Arkansas 41 years ago, which has been dubbed “Dixie’s Last Stand,” the vast majority of the players on the field were African-American. And most of Black players wearing the Crimson and White for 'Bama, and Gold and Purple for LSU, have absolutely no business attending an institution of higher learning. But this seem to be of little concern to the White alumni boosters of both schools. Indeed, the Southeastern Conference (SEC) has made a science out of lowering standards for Black athletes, with many schools relying on “special admission status” for athletes with poor ACT/SAT and grade point averages.

The SEC had some legendary programs in the Bad Old Days of White football, but it has flourished in the Integration era. In the past 20 years, just under 50 percent of the NCAA Division I National Champions have been SEC schools. More recently, Florida, LSU, Alabama, and Auburn have accounted for five of the past five BCS titles.

The South has some of the most segregated cities and counties in America, and yet, White alumni and fans of the 12 SEC schools are widely recognized as the most loyal, passionate, and intense followers of majority-Black college football. It is no exaggeration to say that these Southerns base their identity on their favorite team and what transpires on Saturdays in the fall. Living vicariously through the exploits of 18-to-22 year-old Blacks, whom they cautiously avoid in every other situation in their lives, these White superfans take offence at the mildest criticism of “their” team. Football is the Opiate of America (or at least the Opiate of this America). 

Caste Football.us (CF) is one of the best kept secrets on the Internet. The website is certainly not the only one dedicated to race and sports. But it is the only one sympathetic to White athletes who, they maintain, are systematically discriminated against in the U.S. due to notions of Black athletic supremacy. The site often documents these cases of naïve White kids being passed over for scholarships year-after-year, most likely because it assumed they can't play running back, corner back, and other glory positions reserved for Black athletes.

CF actually tries to help young White athletes by letting them know which schools will and will not consider Whites for key positions. They do this through pre-season rankings of all 120 Football Bowl System (FBS) football programs.

One thing is clear from the 2011 rankings: Whites (and indeed all non-Blacks) should abandon any hope of playing in the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Indeed, the SEC is worse than the almost 70 percent Black NFL when it comes to allowing non-Blacks to start.

This is important for a number of reasons, not least of which is that that the SEC has been the marquee confence in college football for the last decade. SEC teams are featured in the most prominent games and the most high profile (and lucrative) bowl games. Success in the SEC often translates into a ticket to the NFL.

There are those who would joke that it's no surprise that the French are good at running.  But humor aside, it is great to see Christophe Lemaitre win the gold medal in the 100 meters sprint at the latest European Athletic Team Championships. His blistering run, in which he clocked up a personal best, not only saw him add to the European Athletic Championship title he won last year, but also helped to further undermine the myth that only Blacks of West African descent can compete at the top level in sprinting.

Usually, when White athletes do well, much is made of their superior training and mental attitude, with the implication being that Blacks are still physically superior and will ultimately dominate when they have overcome these setbacks which, it is further implied, are in some way a legacy of 'racism.' It was interesting therefore to hear the comments of the man Lemaitre beat into the second place, the Black British sprinter, Dwain Chambers.

"He has so many advantages with his height and those long legs that keep striding past me...he is like an antelope." 

In 2007, then-Stanford University head football coach Jim Harbaugh (now of the San Francisco 49ers) made statements about his alma mater, the University of Michigan, that cast aspersions on the school’s practice of admitting substandard students in order to compete in the Big Ten Conference. Said Harbaugh,

Michigan is a good school and I got a good education there… but the athletic department has ways to get borderline guys in and, when they’re in, they steer them to courses in sports communications. They’re adulated when they’re playing, but when they get out, the people who adulated them won’t hire them.

Most in the PC world of sportswriting claimed to be appalled by Harbaugh’s pointing out of the obvious. One exception was ESPN’s Pat Forde:

The hard numbers seem to be on Joltin' Jim's side.

All it takes to see that is a scan of the 2007 Michigan media guide. Only 30 players have listed majors, and 19 of them are pursuing degrees in something called "general studies." That's 20 percent of the team, and 63 percent of the players who have declared a major. 

But even Forde wasn’t willing to touch on the REAL truth behind what Harbaugh had said.

College football (and basketball) offer Black Americans opportunities to attend schools like Michigan that their academic records and performance on SAT/ACT tests would never grant them, even with affirmative action. Blacks make up only six percent of National Champion Auburn University’s 23,000 undergraduate body, for instance; they comprise around 80 percent of the football team’s starting lineup. Black people, who would seem to have little in common with many of the institutions for which they play, become heroes to students, alumni, and fans alike. Universities, in turn, rely on athletes like Auburn’s Cam Newton—and, by all indications, pay them handsomely—in order to bring in hundreds of millions in revenue each year.

Those who deem the South a region worth defending should be outraged by the recent University of Mississippi nickname controversy. Once known as “The Rebels” -- a name derived from the men who fought for the Confederacy in the War Between the States -- the university has sacrificed its heritage on the altar of political correctness.

When the Federal Government integrated Black students into “Ole Miss” by force in the ‘60s, riots took place and more than 3,000 federal soldiers were required to quell the violence. This is quite a contrast to the timidity shown by virtually the entire current student body and alumni base as their beloved mascot was taken away from them.

Ole Miss was forced to abandon its nickname and heritage because Black recruits in football and basketball might be turned off by a school that celebrates a character --Colonel Reb -- steeped in Southern and Confederate lore:

Serious discussion of the reality of genetic differences seldom reaches a mass audience, much less the largest one in talk radio, but Rush Limbaugh gave 20 million Americans a lesson in human biological diversity last Thursday.

On August 5, Limbaugh delivered the monologue “Life is Not Fair.” He was so pleased with the result he posted a transcript on his website. It revisited one of his favorite topics:

I've made the point throughout my career, the undeniable truths of life, many monologues on this program, that life is not fair by definition. Life isn't fair. I mean, it just isn't, and there's no way that you can change certain aspects that make life unfair to make them fair. Life is not equal.

He recounted economic, moral, and genetic disparities to show it is life, not the U.S. Constitution, that is unfair. Among his examples were professional sports stars:

Athletes are another thing. Champions are born. They are not made in the weight room. They are not made on the practice field. It's honed and it's practiced and it's improved, but champions are born. If you can't run a 4.2 40, nobody can teach you how. If you can't throw a baseball 100 miles an hour, nobody can teach you how. It's not fair. Some people can and some can't. It's not because the Constitution or the country's unfair.

Rush isn't speaking as a novice. He worked for the Kansas City Royals, lost his post on Monday Night Football for non-PC comments, and attempted to purchase the St. Louis Rams only to be blocked on the basis of lies about race. Rush knows sports.