We don’t know if he will get to keep it, but the amazing Auburn quarterback Cam Newton has won the 2010 Heisman Trophy.

“Honestly, it’s a dream come true for me, something every child has a dream that plays the sport of football, and I’m living testimony that anything is possible,” Newton told the Associated Press.

Newton is the third Auburn player to be so honored. His 729 first-place votes beat runner-up Andrew Luck of Stanford by 1,184 points.

Oregon running back LaMichael James was third.

Reaching the podium, he whispered “oh my God” twice as he pulled out his acceptance speech.

The top-ranked Tigers are headed for the BCS National Championship Game against Oregon.

Newton has been embroiled in controversy since a Mississippi State booster came forward saying Newton’s father tried to get the college to pay $180,000 to have Newton play there.

Northeastern University entered the 2003 season ranked No. 1 in the nation in what was then Division 1-AA. A few weeks into the season, the school wasn’t ranked at anymore. It’s been a steady stream downhill ever since.

In an unsurprising move that’s no less depressing for students and alumni, Northeastern University is cutting its Division 1 football program.

In a statement, Athletic Director Peter P. Roby said he made the call.

“We do not define success merely through wins and losses,” Roby said. “Instead, we recognize that success comes from creating a positive student-athlete experience. The primary motivation for this decision was based on the significant obstacles to providing this experience for our football players.”

Administration officials have said since 2007 that cutting football was on the table for Northeastern, which has been moving away from athletics for several years as its academic standing grows.

Northeastern football competed its 74th season with a 33-27 win on Saturday at The University of Rhode Island, capping a 3-8 season.

The college’s 63 football scholarship athletes have been told they are guaranteed their scholarships until graduation, though Roby admitted he made sure the athletes knew about the decision as soon as possible so that they had the “most time possible to make decisions about their future.”

Northeastern University football player Brian Mandeville received devastating news on Friday at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis during routine physical examinations. The star tight end, who missed a third of his senior season with knee injuries and even survived a brain tumor while in college, was told by Combine doctors that he has a heart ailment, effectively ending his football career.

Mandewille was diagnosed with an abnormal heart valve, which is not considered life-threatening, but the problem could become dangerous under the strenuous training regimens of the NFL.

“I told him his health and well-being is what’s important” Northeastern coach Rocky Hager told the Boston Herald. “I don’t know if that means he’ll continue in a career in sports, but then everybody’s career in sports eventually comes to an end. But I think he’s so well grounded and his parents have done a great job raising him and he always has the right attitude.”

Mandeville caught 63 passes for 863 yards and seven touchdowns in 33 games, worthy of earning first-team All-New England honors. Northeastern’s I-AA football program went 2-10 last year and hasn’t had a winning season since 2003.

We absolutely love it when a big media outlet gets college students involved in the news.

PlayboyU.com, the PG-13 Playboy site for students recently polled top college newspaper sportswriters to get their top 25 college football picks.

The “Playboy College Sportswriter Top 25 Poll,” is surprisingly accurate with a few points for debate.

“We’re glad to have students from so many great schools participate in this inaugural poll,” said Gary Cole, Playboy magazine’s sports editor.  “It’s great to be able to add the opinions of these college journalists to Playboy’s coverage of college football and college sports in general … even if their ultimate pick of Georgia over my preseason number one, Oklahoma, is dead wrong.”

The Georgia Bulldogs narrowly edged out the University of Southern California. Rounding out the top five are Ohio State, Oklahoma, and Florida.

The 31 student-pollsters include representatives from nearly every major Division I conference, as well as the Ivy League, including the University of Florida, University of Georgia, USC, UCLA, The Ohio State University, Harvard University, University of Notre Dame, and 24 other schools.

Playboy’s College Sportswriters Top 25

Rank Team Points
1 Georgia 729
2 USC 724
3 Ohio State 698
4 Oklahoma 680
5 Florida 675
6 Missouri 605
7 LSU 566
8 West Virginia 517
9 Clemson 494
10 Texas 486
11 Auburn 451
12 Wisconsin 404
13 Texas Tech 374
14 Kansas 330
15 Virginia Tech 318
16 BYU 295
17 Arizona State 291
18 Tennessee 280
19 Illinois 208
20 Oregon 185
21 South Florida 168
22 Penn State 126
23 Fresno State 87
24 Wake Forest 64
25 Alabama 57