1. Harvey Updyke shows up for an SEC softball game and gets ejected.

2. Bruce Feldman explains his Bobby Petrino to Kentucky idea.

3. Williams-Brice Stadium will have a different look this fall.

4. Mike Anderson: “At UAB in our second year, we made the Sweet 16. My second year at Missouri, we made the Sweet 16. The, the third year, the Elite 8. See where we’re headed here?”

5. New Mexico assistant Ryan Miller joins the basketball staff at Mizzou.

6. Former Kentucky player Sean Woods is now the basketball coach at Morehead State.

7. Which early season basketball tournament looks to have the strongest field next season?

8. SEC baseball becoming more like SEC football – dominant.

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9. If Texas said yes to West Virginia, would it really say no to Boise?

10. 50 years later, NBA legend Don Nelson finally gets his college diploma.

In addition to messageboard posters and Bleacher Reports bloggers, the scribes at ESPN are among the first to connect Auburn offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn to the now vacant head coaching job at North Carolina.

Bruce Feldman put together a list of six hot candidates for the job and Malzahn’s name is at the top.  (Feldman’s list is viewable by subscription only, but Chris Low gives an overview.) 

UNC will go through the 2011 season with an interim leader, so you can bet Tar Heel fans will keep an eye toward Auburn’s rebuilt offense this fall.  If Malzahn’s system can put up big numbers after losing Cam Newton and a talented offensive line, there’s no question he’ll be able to write his own check — if he decides to — by season’s end.

Also on Feldman’s list of UNC possibilities: Alabama defensive coordinator Kirby Smart.

Cam Newton’s workout for the media in San Diego today was impressive enough to win over ESPN’s Trent Dilfer.  Granted, Dilfer is just one man, but if more people — people who actually have a say on draft day — eventually see what Dilfer saw today, Newton figures to be a very rich man whenever the NFL starts playing football again.

“That was phenomenal,” Dilfer told fellow ESPN’er Bruce Feldman.  “If scouts saw this they’d have been slobbering.”  Dilfer has become one of the network’s top analysts and is credited with being Jawoski-esque in his film studies.  So when he says Newton’s “mechanics are so sound” and “The ball just jumps off his hands” and “He made 30 big time throws,” it’s a very good sign for the Newton camp.

“It was really one of the most phenomenal personal workouts I have ever seen.” 

Okay, Trent.  We get it.

“He cut the ball through the wind.”

We get it.