On deck: in the August 11 issue of the Sporting News.

College football preview. The night took a dramatic turn for College Football Insider Matt Hayes at the airport in Atlanta, when his connecting flight--the second leg of a long journey to the city of our preseason No. 1 team--was unpredictably canceled. Needing to cover 80 miles in a hurry to reach the smaller airport where a rental car was waiting for him, Hayes talked his way into a ride from a shuttle van driver (for a small fee, of course). But by the time he reached his third airport of the evening, the rental car office was closed. Hayes was waiting at the desk when the office reopened the following morning--he had a 60-mile drive down a series of ...