Bruce Tenen

The first Wednesday in February is a huge day for college football fanatics, as it is the first day high school stars can sign national letters of intent with the university of their choosing. Although verbal commitments are meaningless, recruiting websites are already proclaiming the winners. 

Most top ten lists include the usual suspects like Alabama, LSU, Oklahoma, Oregon and Texas.

In addition, resurging programs such as Clemson, Florida, Florida State, Michigan, Ohio State and Stanford are reportedly doing very well.

The "recruitniks" are also saluting the recruiting classes of Miami, Notre Dame, South Carolina, Texas A&M and UCLA.

It should be noted that the Buckeyes, Aggies and Bruins all fired their head coaches after last season. 

A homemade sign was spotted in the stands at a recent SEC basketball game between Alabama and LSU, just a few days following the Crimson Tide’s 21-0 thrashing of the Tigers in the 2012 BCS National Championship Game.

The sign read:  "Will LSU cross halfcourt?" 

Incidentally, Alabama came out on top of LSU on this occasion as well, 69-53

Slovenian skier Tina Maze placed second in a giant slalom race in Austria earlier this month, while causing a controversy over the type of underwear she was wearing. 

The Swiss Ski Federation filed a protest about her one-piece, long underwear, worn under her racing uniform in Bad Kleinkircheim. The Swiss complained that the underwear contained some plastic which could prevent her body from breathing, creating a health concern and also an aerodynamic advantage.

The undergarment was confiscated, tested and ruled legal by race officials, who recommended that female skiers should not wear the body stocking.  

Maze later provoked the issue during a televised interview by stripping away the top of her ski suit to reveal a sports bra which read:  "Not Your Business." 

Pitchers Leo Nunez of the Marlins and Fausto Carmona of the Indians have been arrested in the Dominican Republic and charged with using a false identity.  Nunez is actually Juan Oviedo and Carmona's real name is Roberto Heredia. Both ballplayers also falsified their ages on their visa applications,

Commented Janice Hough on the website leftcoastsportsbabe.com:  "If they are ever traded for each other, it could be the first trade solely involving two players to be named later.”