Stanford has not given up on getting an invitation to join the Atlantic Coast Conference as its fellow Pac-4 members wait and hope to rebuild their plundered league. Leaders from Stanford, California, Oregon State and Washington State spoke Thursday and Stanford told its colleagues it had in…
The excitement of Deion Sanders taking over at Colorado is making the Buffaloes an unlikely favorite of bettors for this college football season. Colorado has a win total of 3 1/2 at FanDuel Sportsbook and other books for its final Pac-12 Conference season. The Buffaloes are a big hit with c…
Reports: Ex-Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald to become HS assistant
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Approximately 1,000 former Northwestern University athletes have sent a letter condemning hazing while defending the school's culture. The Associated Press obtained the letter Thursday. The athletes say allegations of abuse within the football program and other men's and women's teams do not…
Nebraska tight ends coach Josh Martin learned eight months of offense in a few days after his abrupt promotion. It's the latest example in an ascending career built on preparation.
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Report: Ex-Northwestern athletes condemn hazing, defend culture
Gifford has always been athletic. What’s changed is that he is more willing to be vocal, pushing his teammates forward — "He's freaking wired all the time."
LOS ANGELES — As the calendar turned to December 2022, the Pac-12 Conference was in a precarious position. Six months after USC and UCLA announced they were joining the Big Ten and the Pac-12 began its media rights negotiations early in response, the 10 remaining schools did not have a new TV deal in place. Worse than that, the Big 12 jumped the Pac-12 in line with ESPN and Fox, agreeing in ...
LEXINGTON, Ky. — News item: On Tuesday, Kansas University unveiled plans for a $300 million renovation of David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, the football home of the Jayhawks. The project is part of an initiative to create a campus gateway for students and visitors. Significance: Though a Big 12 Conference member, it’s not as if Kansas is a national college football power. The Jayhawks ...
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Mere weeks after the University of Kansas hired Travis Goff as athletic director in April 2021, Goff met with then-Buffalo football coach Lance Leipold seeking a solution for KU’s coaching carousel. From the outset of what Leipold joked Tuesday would become 17 interviews, Goff had to sell not just his beloved alma mater but something more precarious: The hope in the unseen, ...
LOS ANGELES — Michael Oher, the NFL veteran whose life inspired the movie "The Blind Side" and who is suing his conservators Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, is now being accused of repeatedly attempting to shake down the couple for $15 million. The couple's attorney, Martin D. Singer, released a scathing statement about Oher's petition, which the football star filed Monday in Tennessee probate ...
ATHENS, Ga. — For every elite athlete, there comes that moment when you realize you’re playing your sport on an entirely different level. For Georgia’s Oscar Delp, that moment came earlier than most. As an early enrollee, the West Forsyth High graduate was allowed by NCAA rule to participate with the Bulldogs in their practices for the 2021 College Football Playoff. Before he knew it, Delp ...
Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark says his conference is done expanding, shutting down the possibility of adding UConn and Gonzaga after engaging with the basketball powerhouses on potential membership. Less than two weeks after the Big 12 announced Pac-12 schools will switch leagues and join the conference next year, Yormark appeared on the "Marchand and Ourand Sports Media Podcast" and revealed other potential moves. He called landing Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah a "dream scenario." Yormark also said he reached out to Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff and had a "collegial" conversation.
Conference realignment has widened the recruiting footprint for Power Five college football programs long before many teams open play in their new league homes. Oklahoma and Texas already have taken advantage of their plans to leave the Big 12 for the Southeastern Conference in 2024. The Big Ten has created the most significant shift, at least in terms of geography. The sprawling conference will boast programs from the West Coast all the way to New Jersey. Realignment also has made conference stability a more critical recruiting piece as young men try to figure out exactly what they are getting into.
The executive director of the National Council on Problem Gambling says he's not surprised about half of the Iowa and Iowa State athletes charged in a state gambling investigation are suspected of making wagers on their own games. Keith Whyte says much of the psychology of sports betting revolves around knowledge of the game and belief in one's skill. Whyte says the closer an athlete is to the action, the more he may think the bet is a sure thing. Surveys show expanded gambling and mobile apps making it easy to place bets has made it popular for college-aged people.
DALLAS — I cannot pretend that the average Dallas-Fort Worth sports fan cares deeply about the SMU-TCU football rivalry. So the news Wednesday that the 2025 season will mark the last game between the two schools — at least for the foreseeable future — should not have knocked anyone’s socks off. It’s just another shoe falling in a cascade of lost and abandoned rivalries that built the ...
Anthony Grant was nearly a 1,000-yard back last season and is among the Big Ten's top returning rushers. He has reasons to believe he can become a "really elite guy."
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LEXINGTON, Ky. — I have a confession to make. I have been an Associated Press college football poll voter for the last few years, a task of enormous responsibility that has subjected me to a barrage of social media slings and arrows. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy voting in the poll, for which the preseason rankings were released Monday. I take it seriously. In the dark ages, however, an AP voter ...
MINNEAPOLIS — The changes in our sports universe have become relentless and close to instantaneous. As a concept, "tradition" has less value than a fourth-down throw under-the-sticks late in a playoff game. Today, college trustees can throw 100 years of athletic affiliations overboard on a 10-minute Zoom connection. In the process, they will rubber-stamp backstabbing from college ...
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PITTSBURGH — The good news for Penn State? It is ranked No. 7 in the Associated Press preseason poll, which was released Monday afternoon. It will start the season in the Top 10 for the fourth time in seven years. The bad news for Penn State? Michigan is ranked No. 2, Ohio State No. 3. Penn State plays both teams again this season. All three are in the Big Ten's East division. The worst news ...
The first Reality Check of the college football season from the Associated Press can be a real bummer. The truth hurts and the truth is a bunch of ranked teams won't be as good as the voters think. The past two seasons have been particularly volatile. Each year has seen a new record in the number of preseason ranked teams falling out of the Top 25 by the end of the season. Last year, it was 15 teams.
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Four-time Pro Bowler Chris Harris, who won a Super Bowl with the Denver Broncos in 2015, has visited — and competed in — a lot of football stadiums during his four years at the University of Kansas and 12 seasons in the NFL. The 34-year-old Tulsa, Oklahoma native, who played defensive back at Kansas from 2007 to 2010, is convinced that the Jayhawks’ soon-to-be renovated David ...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Jim Harbaugh is talking about vibes, good vibes, vibrant vibes. He’s talking about a roster so deep, he could field two offensive lines. He’s talking about the mission, with Michigan No. 2 in the polls, its highest preseason ranking in 32 years. What is Harbaugh not talking about? Pretty much everything else. There are no visible distractions in UM’s training camp, no matter ...
The former prized tight end recruit has played three snaps over the past two years. This season will be his first chance to contribute for Nebraska.
Iowa State coach Matt Campbell had high praise for Ngoyi: "He is as pure a talent of a receiver that we have had."
Players and coaches at Wisconsin and Cincinnati say getting away from campus for part of training camp helps them build camaraderie. But the number of schools training out of town has shrunk over the last decade. These off-campus training camps have gained attention in the wake of the Northwestern hazing scandal. Northwestern has announced it will no longer train at Kenosha, Wisconsin. Some of the hazing allegations that led to the filing of numerous lawsuits and the firing of football coach Pat Fitzgerald stem from those Kenosha camps.
Hidetora Hanada was a highly ranked sumo wrestler in Japan. He decided he wanted to try something different. He is learning to play college football at Colorado State. He is able to use some of the same basic techniques as he tries to become a defensive lineman. The 21-year-old Hanada is quickly adjusting to life in Fort Collins, Colorado. His English has come a long way and he knows the basic rules of football. He's also discovered a love of lasagna.
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