By Holly Anderson

Cal O-line coach Zach Yenser — you remember him — has taken to the life of a Bear with what can only be called ursine ferocity:

We get X amount of $ a day for meals while recruiting I just spent X amount of $ on sushi! I couldn't help it all the rolls looked so good!—
Zach Yenser (@CalCoachYenser) May 17, 2013

@RGBearTerritory I didn't go in hungry! We at least I didn't think I was! We got fed BBQ tonight after watching a practice! #igotproblems—
Zach Yenser (@CalCoachYenser) May 17, 2013

By Holly Anderson

Look, you try ignoring a headline that implores the reader to “Watch Pat Dye lick sugar off of a football.” What, you think you’re better than us?

Given the general demeanor of Clemson’s mascot, we’re kind of surprised that’s all they found in the beer. (AP)

By Holly Anderson

Pertinent excerpts from this AP report on a Clemson study of the dangers of beer pong:

• “More research found that dangerous bacteria such as salmonella, listeria, e. Coli and staph on the balls end up in the beer when players make successful tosses into glasses.”

• “The students found the most extra bacteria — 3 million of the tiny organisms — on balls being used in an outdoor beer pong game. A ball being used in a game played on carpet had 200 bacteria on it.”

• ”It’s about the competition of throwing a ball in a cup, not about the alcohol,” Gains said. “We actually threw away a considerable amount of beer at our last tournament.”

The Ragin’ Cajuns retain their hold atop the finest spring game destination leaderboard. Bring us back one of those “IN HUD WE TRUST” koozies. (AP)

As we learned last year in Lafayette to our fattening benefit, getting fed at Louisiana-based football activities is one of the highlights of spring ball. It’s also an easy-to-master process:

1. Show up

2. Walk around until you find somebody with a crawfish pot

3. Be offered crawfish

4. Repeat

The Ragin’ Cajuns don’t play their spring game until April 20 this year, which should give you plenty of time to condition your stomach linings against whatever hell your mouth intends to rain down on them. Your training regimen begins tomorrow in Monroe, with Super Warhawk weekend. We are told friendly feeders are just as easy to find here. But should you find yourselves at the Warhawks’ spring game festivities sans pals with boiling proclivities, despair not: The school is offering its own officially sanctioned crawfish boil for $25 a head at the alumni center, starting at 12:30 p.m. Diligence in conditioning now will yield true tailgating greatness this fall.

Tudor’s Biscuit World is one of our favorite places to camp out before a Mountaineers game and send smug messages to our coworkers about the obvious superiority of our breakfast to any breakfasts they might be enjoying away from Tudor’s Biscuit World. Observe:

This is a sausage, egg, cheese and potato concoction Tudor’s calls the Thundering Herd. This is not even the grossest, most delicious thing on the Tudor’s menu (that would be the Peppi, a pepperoni-and-cheese biscuit that’s a breakfast answer to West Virginia’s finest culinary delicacy, the pepperoni roll). There’s also a Mountaineer biscuit, featuring layers of country ham, potato, egg and cheese, and right now in Morgantown you can order it as Dana Holgorsen would — with a kicky Red Bull to start your day at maximum firepower:

The DANA Combo–Mountaineer Biscuit+Red Bull–$7.77 #WVU Tudors Biscuit World—
Tudor's Motown (@TudorsMotown) February 22, 2013

Be forewarned, however — if that slim can in your hand isn’t a Sugar Free Red Bull, it’s not truly Holgo canon.

*This post not sponsored by Tudor’s Biscuit World, but if we ever get famous we’re calling them for an endorsement deal.

Cam Newton probably could’ve bought everybody in his class a donut shop, but he settled for not saddling any of his new schoolmates with the burdens of operating a small business:

Cam brought our class doughnuts and orange juice! #WarCamEagle!! http://t.co/eXQhuQgIjM—
Brookelyne Harvel (@UnoOjo) February 21, 2013

It’s just a few baby steps from here to the baby elephant thing, right?

[Via War Eagle Reader.]

Pining for the chance to eat airport ceviche? Sure, we all are, and the Raleigh-Durham International Airport is here to help. It’s partnering with the Atlantic Coast Conference to create a real place called the “ACC American Café.”

ACC restaurant: Plenty of seats available the first Saturday in December.—
Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) February 22, 2013

The Big East #ACCMenuItems—
Mark Ennis (@Mengus22) February 21, 2013

"We have an unusual item on the menu." RT @BLeez17: Ron Cherry pie #ACCMenuItems—
  (@edsbs) February 21, 2013

Jason Kirk and Martin Rickman ran about as far with this as it should be humanly possible to go. We assume the whole list is excellent, but passed out from sheer mirth at some point around “Raycomdiments.” We look forward to making a weekend of it on our next visit to the Tar Heel State with a dining tour that stops here and the Charlotte airport’s Stock Car Café.

“The NCAA is no longer worried about what is going on bagels. That is, until some football staff decides to set out lunch meats, pizza bagels or grill steaks and serve them to players on half a bagel.” — Bylaw Blog author John Infante, January 22

Here at Campus Union, we pride ourselves on performing regular acts of public service. Today’s project, dedicated to all those athletic programs out there suddenly freed from the shackles of dry bagels: Celebrating National Signing Day by showing your players just how much, in American dollars, you appreciate their joining the family.

Your incoming freshmen won’t really feel like a teammate until they’re dressed like a teammate. (Do not allow road testing of new sneakers before topping bagels.)

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Linemen hoolahoop contest! http://t.co/VWKn6YrQ—
Beef 'O'Brady's Bowl (@BeefOBradysBowl) December 19, 2012

Dispatch of the day, from intrepid reader DevilGrad, concerning our very most favorite bowl game:

On the way into work today, I walked by a sidewalk chalkboard sign outside a deli that read as follows:

BURRITO
WAFFLE
OMELETS

I can’t tell whether that was supposed to be three separate items or a head start on your 2013 Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl preview.  

Ten and a half months until we find out.

“The NCAA is no longer worried about what is going on bagels. That is, until some football staff decides to set out lunch meats, pizza bagels or grill steaks and serve them to players on half a bagel.” — Bylaw Blog author John Infante, January 22

Here at Campus Union, we pride ourselves on performing regular acts of public service. Today’s project, dedicated to all those athletic programs out there suddenly freed from the shackles of dry bagels: Providing easy-to-prepare, filling snack ideas for football programs hosting their own Super Bowl viewing parties — all within bounds of NCAA nutrition regulations.

First up: Taking the concept of the “pizza bagel” to its logical, if irrational conclusion.

It’s a special occasion. Don’t be afraid to reach beyond store-brand frozen pizza. Your student-athletes deserve the best.

Hearty meal accompaniments follow, after the jump:

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