UCLA pre-season All-America cornerback Alterraun Verner is among 18 college football stars who'll write weekly diaries throughout the season in Sporting News Today, the world's first digital daily sports newspaper.

Verner is already writing weekly updates for uclabruins.com, UCLA's official athletic website.

The diaries, which will cover topics on the field and off it, begin this week. To sign up for the free digital newspaper, which is no fewer than 30 pages a day, go to sportingnewstoday.com. At 7 a.m. ET each day, subscribers are sent an e-mail directing them to that day's edition.

Sporting News Today's entire roster of player columnists:

Zane Beadles, OT, Utah

Eric Berry, SS, Tennessee

Scooter Berry, DE, West Virginia

Ciron Black, OT, LSU

Jeff Byers, G, USC

Antonio Coleman, DE, Auburn

Jason Fox, OT, Miami

Lamarr Houston, DT, Texas

Mike Johnson, G, Alabama

Keaton Kristick, OLB, Oregon State

Greg Romeus, DE, Pitt

Jevan Snead, QB, Mississippi

Ndamukong Suh, DE, Nebraska

Walter Thurmond, CB, Oregon

Alterraun Verner, CB, UCLA

Dekoda Watson, OLB, Florida State

Deunta Williams, FS, North Carolina

Russell Wilson, QB, N.C. State