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Former Texas A&M safety Terrence Kiel thrown from car, dies. Our thoughts go out to his family.

Happy 4th of July from Bevo Sports. Enjoy the nice long weekend and be sure to take part in the great American tradition of free stuff by signing up to win NCAA Football for free. We’ll be back on Monday with the top 3 college uniforms, more player profiles, and of course all the latest Longhorn news.

Have a fun, safe holiday weekend.

Future Longhorn Kathleen Hersey earns Olympic berth. Finishes second to Elaine Breeden in the 200-meter butterfly.

Big 12 teams as hot celebrity women. Texas is Jenny McCarthy & Oklahoma State as Anna Nicole is awesome.

Bo Scaife: Stud, or the next Ben Troupe? I think Vince and Bo both rebound this season.

4. Southern Cal Trojans

Probably the ugliest best uniform out there. Despite not really being particularly nice to look at (in my opinion), there’s just something right about them. If you saw a high school team with those wide yellow shoulder stripes on the jersey or the double stripe on the pants you’d think they were ugly but [tag]Southern Cal[/tag] somehow pulls it off.

The cardinal red and gold colors are classics as is the Trojan emblem on the sides of the helmet. Not many sports teams can pull off yellow pants, if you’re not careful you end up looking like Iowa State. They’ve managed to tweak and change a few things in the last few years, namely the number design and jersey cut, without messing with tradition.

They’re not pretty but they’re perfect and I’m not sure why.

Check back Monday for our third favorite college football uniform.

College football’s best uniforms

1. Texas
2. Michigan
3. Florida State
4. Southern Cal
5. Notre Dame

Vikings waive Marcus Griffin. It’s early enough that hopefully he gets a chance with another team. (via)

5. Notre Dame

As much as I hate the Irish, the blue jersey with the gold helmets are beautiful even without the history behind them. I even love the “lucky” green jerseys they wear whenever they lose a big game.

The clean, classic helmets make the whole uniform. Maybe it’s from watching Rudy too many times during my formative years. The scene where you learn about the managers repainting the helmets with paint containing actual gold before every game gives them a little extra mojo.

Like all the top uniforms the Notre Dame uniforms will look as good 30 years from now as they did 30 years ago. They still suck.

Check back tomorrow for our number four favorite college football uniform.

College football’s best uniforms

1. Texas
2. Michigan
3. Florida State
4. Southern Cal
5. Notre Dame

Former Texas Longhorn earns spot on U.S. swim team. Aaron Peirsol earned a trip to the Beijing Olympics with a world-record time of 52.89.

NCAA Football 09 isn’t even out yet (and we’re giving it away!!) but I’m also getting excited about Madden 09 thanks to some new video and screenshots that have hit the web.

Operation Sports has up a ton of new images including the great one above of Titans’ [tag]Vince Young[/tag] diving for a beautiful touchdown at the pylon against the Jaguars. I love the flashes going off in the crowd. It’s accurately catching what really happens, despite the fact that with most cameras that probably means you just took a photo of the guy’s head in front of you.

Word from the guys at IGN and Gamespot is that Madden 09 is more than just a roster update, hopefully they’re right and there are some cool new features. Other than last year’s version (which I bought just because Vince was on the cover), I’ve been buying NCAA and renting Madden every year for a while. There will have to be more than a rewind/cheat feature to make me purchase the game this year.

Check out the screenshots.