South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg said on Monday that supporting college football poses a moral conundrum he finds "problematic," but admitted his city "relies" on the sport. 
Senorise Perry is a running back for the Buffalo Bills. Coming out of college at Louisville, he signed as an undrafted free agent with the Chicago Bears in 2014. He later played for Miami, mostly on special teams, before catching on with Buffalo this spring. And last week, the Bills gave him permission to wear Number 32 on his jersey.
Number 32. A minor NFL player, sitting somewhere around fourth or fifth on the team’s offseason depth chart, now has the number not given out by the Bills since 1977. The number of the greatest tailback ever to play in Buffalo. The number of possibly the most beautiful runner in the history of football. The number of a murderer. The number of O.J. Simpson. 
Ohio State University head football coach Urban Meyer has been suspended for three games for his handling of an assistant coach’s alleged domestic abuse, much to the chagrin of basically everyone who follows the sport and who isn’t angry this sentence didn’t start with “The.” How bad are the allegations? Well, reading through the full findings of the Urban Meyer investigation, I couldn’t help but notice the similarities between Meyer’s scandal and those of ol’ Crooked Hillary Clinton.
University of Missouri quarterback Drew Lock apologized Wednesday after a newspaper asked him about offensive tweets he sent in middle school. 
Sensitive Department of Homeland Security documents discussing responses to potential attacks on Super Bowl LII in Minneapolis were left in the seat-back pocket of a commercial plane. 
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R.) on Tuesday issued a proclamation calling for South Carolinians to stand in their homes before the Super Bowl kick off. 
Ohio Republicans are recruiting former Ohio State University head football coach Jim Tressel to run for the Senate this year, seeing his popularity across the Buckeye State as a key asset to challenge incumbent Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown. 
The ratings are in, and a lot more people watched Monday night's college football national title game than Oprah Winfrey's buzzy speech at Sunday's Golden Globes. Alabama running back Bo Scarbrough denied yelling "f**k Trump" before Monday night's college football championship game, claiming he actually said "Georgia" instead. 