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ESPN is colder than a hookers heart. You may remember Bruce Feldman, the ESPN reporter who was suspended by earlier this summer after he had some not so nice things to say about the World Wide Leader in Sports in Swing Your Sword was released, a book that he co-authored with Texas Tech coach Mike Leach.

Well after six weeks silence, Bruce Feldman is back… having left ESPN for CBS Sports and he’s pissed. In an interview with SI he said, even though ESPN was claiming he wasn’t suspended, he was “told not to blog, not to tweet, not to do any radio interviews“. But that’s nothing compared to what he said on the Dan Patrick radio show today (video above).

This whole Miami scandal has got a lot of people blood boiling, including Dick Vitales who goes off The Dan LeBatard Show when LeBatard’s co-host Jon Weiner  had the audacity to infer that all programs all college coaches cheat in some way and singled out Kentucky’s John Calipari as an example. Well to say the least Vitale wasn’t too happy about it and well just listen to audio to hear the exchange. [via]

We still don’t know all of the places that the College GameDay crew will be going this football season, but that’s not stopping them from churning out the complete list of College Basketball GameDay dates. Tune in below to see if ESPN will be coming to your school this basketball season.

The 2011-12 College GameDay Schedule Below…

Good news for all the students out there, we’ll got the first three cities that the Erin Andrews and the rest of ESPN’s College GameDay crew for the 2011 season.

The dates that have been announced so far: Week 1 will open the season in Texas as LSU and Oregon face off in Cowboys Stadium, Week 2 the GameDay gang will be traveling to Ann Arbor for Michigan vs Notre Dame game, and Week 3 they’ll be dropping in on Tallahassee for Florida State vs. Oklahoma. Not bad. [via]

Everyone knows the Big East sucks, but yet here they are turning down a $1 billion TV rights deal from ESPN… presumably so they can get even more on the open market. Which is amazing because I didn’t even know that anybody watches Big East football, so them turning down $1 billion from ESPN is like a bum refusing to take a dollar.

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The saddest result of the NFL lockout… there will be no HBO Hard Knocks this year. But never fear because ESPN is going to be airing College Football Special: Oklahoma All-Access from August 15-19, consisting of five 30 minute episodes that will give you a behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of the Sooner Football Program. In other words it’s a mini Hard Knocks… so mark your calendars. [via]

This is just a reminder that the 2011 NCAA Football season is starting up on Thursday, September 1. But that’s not all we’ve got for… we’ve also got the ESPN announcer assignments for you so you’ll know who’ll be covering your teams game.

And it’s pretty much the same old gang: Brett Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit, Erin Andrews, and the rest of the usuals… with the big addition ex-Florida coach Urban Meyer. The complete commentator assignments here.