Closer James Allen and his 1.35 ERA are K-State's trump card heading into Friday's 6:00 p.m. matchup with Stanford in the Fullerton Regional.

The value of athletic scholarships was a hot topic at the Big 12 meetings. If you're going to have scholarships cover the total cost of attendance, how do you account for different costs of attendance at different schools? Do the golf teams get full cost of attendance even though they don't bring in any money? What about the fact that very few athletic departments operate in the black?

Barking Carnival has a former UT football player's take on institutional control and compliance with NCAA rules.

SB Nation's Alabama blog, Roll Bama Roll, takes a look at Jim Tressel and the college football coach's conundrum. Mostly, I just like the word 'conundrum.'