The big news of Tuesday is that the BIG EAST has hired a new commissioner, and is receiving rave reviews for the hire:

These are the kind of bold moves that #Pitt administration begged the #bigeast to make before they finally jumped ship to ACC

— Paul Zeise (@PaulZeise) August 14, 2012

The question will be...when he makes a smart business decision, but it obviously benefits the football members, how mad are the basketball-only members going to be? Because you know it's going to happen.

So we'll take a look at this story, how big is too big to play pee wee football, a shortage of a common chemical element, and more...after this video, and the jump.

It looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

Surely you can't be serious. Well apparently the BIG EAST is finally serious. The conference just hired a TV executive as it's next commissioner with contract negotiations just over the horizon.

It is approximately a 45 minute from this point in line. There is a line forming in the Panther backfield and Isaac Bennett is OK with that.

Everything is bigger in Texas. A pee wee football league in Texas has banned a 12 year old from playing this season...because he is 6'1", 297lbs. I'm shock Les Miles hasn't yet offered him.

Continuing a tradition is up in the air. Nebraska's tradition of releasing thousands of red balloons after the first touchdown of the game is up in the air due to a helium shortage.

Denard Robinson is crazy. Why, you ask? Because he believes he can beat Usain Bolt in the 40.

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