Get out your checkbook
Penn State is selling the team's buses. The blue buses were used to take the Nittany Lions to and from the stadium during home games from 1980 to 2007. Potential buyers have until Wednesday morning to bid on the first bus for sale, a 1980 Ford with 105,173 miles and room for 44 passengers. The money raised will go to Penn State's transportation department. What college football memorabilia would you spend money on?

A football teams scores 74 points, and loses.
The reason? The other team scored 128. The shootout happened over the weekend between two high school teams in Nevada. The 128 points broke the national scoring record of 118 for eight-man football, and Pahranagat Valley set a national eight-man record with 17 touchdowns.

History made in Japan
A 16-year-old high school pitcher became the first professional female baseball player in Japan. The knuckleballer was selected in the Kansai Independent Baseball League draft.

Former Cal coach Newell dies at 93
Pete Newell, who won an NCAA championship, an Olympic gold medal and who later tutored some of the game's greatest big men, died Monday. Newell's "big men" camps featured some of the game's greatest stars, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Walton, Shaquille O'Neal and Ralph Sampson.

Vanderbilt faculty protest boxing match held on campus
Saturday's WBC super middleweight bout between Jermain Taylor and Jeff Lacy drew criticism from the school's Faculty Senate Executive Committee. The committee said Vanderbilt's status as an internationally renowned academic medical center disqualifies boxing events from coming to campus. "The World Medical Association, for example, which represents physicians from dozens of countries, condemns boxing as an activity whose 'basic intent is to produce bodily harm in the opponent,' one that 'produces an alarming incidence of chronic brain injury,'" the memo said. Additionally, the committee believed Saturday's fight was contrary to the fundamental mission of the university.