New South Florida coach Willie Taggart has spent most of this offseason doing his best to promote his team, but on Tuesday he took that promotion to a whole new level of enthusiasm.

Taggart appeared at a news conference to help promote TNA Impact Wrestling's upcoming show at the USF Sun Dome in Tampa, Fla. He was joined by one of the most famous wrestlers of all time, Hulk Hogan, which seemingly made Taggart, who is a huge wrestling fan, as giddy as a 10-year-old girl at a Justin Bieber concert.

"What are you gonna do when the Hulkmania and Bullmania goes wild on you, baby?!" Taggart shouted during the news conference.

Taggart presented

Now that the new college football playoff has an amazing new name — College Football Playoff (yes, seriously) — it’s time to add a snazzy new logo.

And you, the fans, get to pick it.

Collegefootballplayoff.com (yes, it even has a website) is inviting fans to pick one of four options for a new playoff logo. The first logo looks like it's trying to get into the hall of fame, the second logo looks like, well, I'll let you all figure that out, and the third logo looks like some sort of award given to a movie personality.

My favorite is the football with spikes because it looks like something that came from the creators of the XFL. Remember that league? All we need is He Hate Me to come and chair this thing and college football is set.

[Also: College football's comical new playoff name]

Collegefootballplayoff.com will keep the contest open until Monday, April 29 when it will choose a winner.

So which one will it be? And if anyone has any alternative logos they’d like us to put up for consideration, please send them our way.

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For the past couple weeks, gay players in college football have become an interesting topic. There’s been a lot of speculation about how a team might treat a gay player on the field or in the locker room.

Middle Tennessee already knows that answer. From 2008-11, it had the first openly gay college football player on its roster, but never went public about it.

Kicker Alan Gendreau was out in high school and when he joined Middle Tennessee as a freshman in 2008, he had no problem sharing his sexual orientation with teammates and friends.

And no one treated him differently.

“My whole thing in this is just to help anybody who is struggling with coming out,” Gendreau told the New York Times. “I want people to know that I didn’t have a problem with it, and they shouldn’t, either.”

(DNJ.com)Please excuse our tardiness on this story, but we felt like it was one that needed to be retold, especially since it was likely lost among the tragic events in Boston and West, Texas last week.

Many people don’t know or have ever heard of Darius Johnson, a 6-foot-3, 293-pound Middle Tennessee State football player, but for one little girl, he’s her hero.

Last Monday, Middle Tennessee was hosting the Special Olympics and Johnson was helping out. Brittany Eyrich, a 10-year-old girl with autism and epilepsy, came up to Johnson and asked for a photo. That began a relationship that would take a scary turn only minutes later.

Eyrich was running in 100-meter dash when the hot temperatures sent her body into an epileptic seizure and sent Johnson into action.

Theresa Eyrich, Brittany's mother, and teacher Karen Godwin reached Brittany first, but the child needed to be moved to take her medication in private. Theresa Eyrich looked around, found Johnson watching intently and asked for his help. He scooped up the 130-pound girl and ran her to a private, cooler location so she could get the help she needed.

[Also: Matt Barkley regrets taking passive approach at USC]

"I've never seen anyone have a seizure, so I just did whatever I could," Johnson told Adam Sparks, who covers the Blue Raiders for the Daily News Journal. "At the beginning of the day, that's not what I expected to be doing, helping a girl like that."

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Houston would be excited to start the 2013 season this fall if it could find a place to play all of its home games.

The Cougars are due to open a new stadium in 2014 after tearing down the old one this offseason. In the meantime, however, Houston was hoping to play all of its home games at Reliant Stadium, home of the NFL’s Houston Texans.

Well, that was a good idea in theory.

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Former Auburn coach Gene Chizik has been under siege in the past couple weeks following a story released by Selena Roberts of Roopstigo.com, which alleges various wrongdoings, including pay-for-play and grade changing.

Auburn athletic director Jay Jacobs released a rebuttal Monday morning that attacked each of the allegations in Roberts’ story, but Chizik, who hasn’t really been heard from in the six months since his firing, decided to weight in, too.

Chizik spoke to WJOX in Birmingham for 25 minutes on Monday to provide his own defense to the allegations.

[Also: Toomer's Corner oak trees officially come down at Auburn (photos)]

Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel, last year’s Heisman Trophy winner, has said many times that he’s continually adjusting to the new spotlight that has found him, but he's also had to deal with the malicious downside of his fame.

On Monday, website outkickthecoverage.com posted a photo of Manziel kissing his Heisman Trophy and the statue appeared to be holding some sort of cigarette (though the headline suggests it’s a joint).

Of course, the photo spread like wildfire and even though outkickthecoverage.com said it could not confirm it was Manziel or confirm with Texas A&M the photo was real, it still sparked controversy and Manziel had to take to Twitter to defend himself.

ABSOLUTELY PHOTOSHOPPED. People are always out to get me...sorry for kissing my trophy

— Johnny Manziel (@JManziel2) April 22, 2013

Notre Dame gave a sneak peek of a possible new and effective play during its spring game on Saturday.

Louis Nix III, the Irish’s 6-foot-3, 350-pound nose tackle, lined up in shotgun during a two-point conversion, directed his teammates where to line up (or at least pretended to), took the snap and then rumbled into the end zone for the conversion.

It was a sight to behold and one that even coach Brian Kelly enjoyed.

Could Nix be the new Belldozer, ala Oklahoma?

[Notre Dame fans: Check out IrishIllustrated.com for more team coverage]