The heat is on.  It’s on the street.  Oh Glenn Fry, you save us from the sultry steam of summer with your cool saxaphone riff and Eddie Murphy praising rock music.  Yes, the heat is mos def on as we hit our first hot spot of the summer.  It’s just in time, too, as the rain left us watching the Beverly Hills Cop series 10 times over, including the terrible 3rd part.  Cabin fever, indeed. So we’re hitting the pool this week and dreaming of the new college football season while laying in our floaties sipping some cold beverages.  Hit up the Crib Sheet then do the same.

• The Kansas ticket scandal has a couple of new charges against former athletic department staffers Brandon Simmons and Jason Jeffries.  They both were dinged with a count of misprision of a felony.  It seems they are lining up the small bananas to get to the big gorillas in the case.
• Even if USC goes undefeated this season, they will not be ranked in the USA Today Coaches Poll.   This is what happens when you have recruiting violations.  Lane Kiffin has a long time to wait to rebuild the program.
• ESPN and the ACC agreed to a 12 year deal which has links to all football games, including some basketball and other non revenue making sports.  This looks like something that the Big 12 (10) will get into once they start negotiating their deals.
• Alabama moved its game against Georgia to a Thursday night and now because of that change, the students get a day off.  Education is way more important than football.  Well, not in Alabama we guess.
• Okay, here’s the Crib Sheet’s weekly police blotter:  Iowa defensive end Broderick Binns arrested for drunk driving, Tennessee players Da’Rick Rogers and Darren Myles Jr. got charged for assault after a bar fight, North Carolina’s Quan Sturdivant was arrested last Saturday for possession of marijuana, and Georgia’s Dontavious Jackson and Tavarres King were arrested for drunk driving and MIP, respectively.  The Bulldogs kicked the last two to the suspension dog house.
• Erin Andrews shook her almost clothed tail and now will be joining the College Game Day crew with her newly resigned contract for ESPN.  If you remember, Andrews was the penultimate sideline reporter babe that ran into some peeping issues and used it to get onto Dancing With the Stars.  Let’s hope she wears the same clothing for the football show.
• The gates are about to flood open with Big 12 (10) schools launching their own television networks.  Texas, Oklahoma, and Missouri of all schools are looking to make some cash off their own television rights.  Will this set the trend for the rest of the schools across the nation?  Tune in to find out.
• ESPN’s Big 12 blogger David Ubben talks about the uphill battle that Turner Gill has with his offensive line, now that starting junior tackle Jeff Spikes injured his Achilles tendon and is out for the year.  I would for Kansas to fill out the bottom the Big 12 (10) North this year.  The  new coach has way too many broken parts and the once touted line is now depleted.
• This is a college football blog so we would be remiss not to mention that George Steinbrenner died of a heart attack this week.  He used to be an assistant football coach for Northwestern.
• Kansas athletic director Lew Perkins is too busy preparing for retirement to pursue the charge of blackmail against William Dent.  His job is saved and will be cruising toward closing the door on his career late next year so he really doesn’t need to recoup anything from this guy.