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The big sporting event going on this weekend is the IAAF World Outdoor Track & Field Championships. Usain Bolt will be there and just about anybody and everybody important in the world of track along with him… shts like a mini Olympics. And also there will be a handful of college athletes representing our fine country against the world, so make sure you tune in.

The Championships start tomorrow and run all the way until September 4th, but the thing you’ll want to make sure you watch is the 100 meter men’s final.. which goes down on Sunday and can be watched on NBC (coverage starts at 12:30 PM ET).

Good news for Gator fans… running back Jeff Demps, who rushed for 531 yards and 3 touchdowns in 2010, will be playing football for Florida this season. There was some uncertainty as to Demps football future because he was thought to have been considering turning in his football pads in order to concentrate on running track and making the 2012 Olympic squad.

But all the speculation has been put to rest by Demps himself who released the following statement.

Read what Demps had to say below…

Will running back Jeff Demps be suiting up for the Florida Gator football program this fall… that is the question. Currently Demps is in Italy competing with the US National Track & Field team. And in case you didn’t know… in addition to being a football player, Demps is one of the fastest men in the world and can run a 9.96 second 100 meter dash (Usain Bolt currently holds the world record at 9.58 seconds).

So as you see, Demps has a dilema… play football this year or quit and focus on trying to qualify for the 2012 Olympics, which is a goal of his. And no offense to Gator fans, but I thinking he’ll eventually end up quitting.

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We’ve got some NCAA rules changes for all you lame sports lovers out there. In swimming there is now a no-recall false start, which means unless there is a blatant false start, the event would continue and the swimmer charged with the false start would be disqualified at the end of the race.

And then the NCAA is also going to start requiring pole vaulters to wear specially-designed helmets starting next year… so nobody misses the mat on the landing and dies like that dude did last year. [via]

Different year same story. On Saturday both Oregon’s women’s team and Florida men’s team won their second consecutive NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championship. And while a lot of stuff happened during the meet, the biggest story was Florida football player Jeff Demps winning his second 60 meter dash championship in a record 6.53 seconds.

And I’m just like…if Demps is running the 60 meter in 6.5 seconds, just how fast can he run the 40 yard dash in? Whatever it is I’m betting it’ll be faster than the 4.24 the Titans Chris Johnson ran at the combine back in ’08. And luckily for us since Demps is a senior to be we’ll get to find if he can break Johnson’s record at next years combine. But back to this years championships….we’ve got releases from both schools below.

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(top row l-r) 1. Oregon  2. Texas A&M  3. LSU  4. Clemson 5. Tennessee
6. Arkansas  7. West Virginia  8. Southern Illinois  9. Auburn  10. BYU

This is a weekly rankings post were we update you on the latest news in one of the sports and post pics of the hottest girl on each of the teams ranked in the top 10

In the first regular national indoor team computer rankings of the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) for NCAA Division I teams, the men of LSU moved to No. 1 despite losing to No. 3 Texas A&M in a dual meet between the schools Saturday. On the women’s side, the top three spots remain unchanged as Oregon lost little ground regardless of a light start to the season.

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Little known to you college fall sports officially kicks off today with women’s soccer. Odds are that your school will be playing at some point over the next three days…not that you’d care unless you’ve got a girlfriend on the soccer team. Next weekend women’s volleyball and field hockey (which is a very underrated women’s sports as far as having hot players go) start up. Then finally the following week the rest of the sports get going including cross country, men’s soccer, men’s water polo, and most importantly football get going.

So yeah we’re about to start being real busy starting in September. So if you’re looking for news on your favorite sport make sure you use the tabs above because we’re going to start cranking out 15-20 stories a day coming up here soon. That is all for now.