Incoming Valparaiso freshman Hailey Wade was named the United Soccer Coaches High School Scholar Player of the Year on Thursday.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — By the end of John Calipari’s 15-year run as Kentucky men’s basketball coach, his “messaging” was no longer effectively shaping public opinion in the Big Blue Nation. While the biggest issue that created the environment that led to Calipari self-exiling himself to “Hog-town”…
Veronica Fraley is scheduled to compete at the Paris Olympics for the first time Friday. So now probably is not a good time for distractions — like, say, rent being due back home in Nashville, Tenn., and not having the funds to cover it. Luckily, hip-hop pioneer Flavor Flav, billionaire Alex…
ATHENS, Ga. — This is Dan Jackson’s sixth college football season. So, Thursday represented his sixth preseason camp with the Georgia Bulldogs. For at least 50 Georgia players, Thursday’s practice was their first exposure to a Kirby Smart preseason. Fittingly, perhaps, there was a heat advis…
The Pioneer Football League's preseason poll and all-conference teams give an idea of where Valparaiso stands with the season a month away.
MIAMI — Whenever I’m in the mood to incite an argument or invite a reaction of skepticism or scoffing, I tell Miami Hurricanes fans how good — no, really good — the Canes are going to be in football this season. They want to believe so much, but can’t quite let themselves. The hopes have bee…
CHICAGO — Juanita Brown ended every pregame prayer the same way, from the time her son made the varsity high school team as a freshman until the final game of his Hall of Fame NFL career. Even that late in his football journey, Devin Hester called, often from NFL locker rooms. “Mom, it’s tim…
CHICAGO — Juanita Brown ended every pregame prayer the same way, from the time her son made the varsity high school team as a freshman until the final game of his Hall of Fame NFL career. Even that late in his football journey, Devin Hester called, often from NFL locker rooms. “Mom, it’s time for us to pray,” he said. Brown, who witnessed Hester’s fervent passion for the game from the time he ...
New federal protections for transgender students at U.S. schools and colleges launch this week, but not everywhere.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Heading into Mark Stoops’ 12th season there appears to be a bit of a generation gap when it comes to opinions concerning the Kentucky football coach. Their frame of reference ruled by recency bias, younger UK football fans are a bit frustrated with the 57-year-old coach, who is coming off back-to-back 7-6 seasons. Meanwhile, the older generation of Kentucky fans, having ...
Winthrop Athletic Director Chuck Rey is feeling less than optimistic about the NCAA’s House lawsuit settlement — not because current and former Division I athletes who played college sports between June 15, 2016 and Nov. 3, 2023 will be paid out a share of approximately $2.8 billion, nor because the NCAA appears to finally paying athletes their “fair share.” Rey’s worry stems from something ...
The NCAA Notice of Allegations Michigan received last December regarding an investigation into impermissible contact during at COVID-19 recruiting dead period in 2021, has been released by the university with some redactions and few surprises. Former Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh faced a Level I violation, the NCAA’s most severe, for “unethical or dishonest conduct and a failure to cooperate,” ...
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Darius Acuff Jr. became the first five-star basketball recruit in the class of 2025 to make his college decision Friday afternoon. The point guard picked John Calipari and the Arkansas Razorbacks. Acuff — a 6-foot-3 playmaker from Detroit — was a major Kentucky recruiting target while Calipari was the head coach of the Wildcats, earning a scholarship offer from UK at the end ...
Thousands of former college athletes will be eligible for payments ranging from a few dollars to more than a million under the $2.78 billion antitrust settlement.
MINNEAPOLIS — The detours on Khyree Jackson's path to the NFL — the community college he left, the hourly jobs he worked while thinking he was done with football — became the details of his story that resonated with Brian Flores so deeply this spring. From their first meeting at the Senior Bowl to their pre-draft Zoom calls and Jackson's visit to Minnesota in April, Flores was drawn to ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Dabo Swinney has often said that he didn’t get a chance to join the Alabama football team as a walk-on wide receiver in 1990s, he wouldn’t be where he is today. So Clemson’s two-time national champion football coach, understandably, had a strong reaction to the recent news that walk-on players will be functionally eliminated amid new roster changes stemming from a court ...
College football players are finally getting to be themselves — or play against themselves — in one of the hottest video games on the planet.
It's a college football player's paradise, where dreams and reality meet in new EA Sports video game
It's a college football player's paradise, where dreams and reality meet in new EA Sports video game
CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Julius Peppers, a fearsome pass-rushing defensive end, would be on the Carolina Panthers’ Mount Rushmore. Fourth all-time in NFL sacks, Peppers is preparing for a big weekend. On Aug. 3, he will be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. Peppers was elected in his first year of eligibility after 17 total seasons in the NFL — 10 of them with the ...
ORLANDO, Fla. — In the oncoming mad rush to pay the college football players who bring in the green, it’s starting to look more and more like NCAA universities will soon sideline the very athletes who bring home the gold. As we get ready for the Paris Games, let us not forget how many Olympians from around the world benefit from a collegiate athletic model that is now in financial peril. With ...
INDIANAPOLIS – The giant inflatable Oregon Duck mascot meandering down the White River in Indianapolis gave it away. There was something entirely different about Big Ten football media days this year. The conference officially expands to 18 teams with the addition of Oregon, UCLA, USC and Washington on Aug. 2, and this week's media gathering at Lucas Oil Stadium is serving as an introduction ...
In the oncoming mad rush to pay the college football players who bring in the green, it’s starting to look more and more like NCAA universities will soon sideline the very athletes who bring home the gold. As we get ready for the Paris Games, let us not forget how many Olympians from around the world benefit from a collegiate athletic model that is now in financial peril. With the NCAA and its ...
Wayne DiMarco knows rugby. Years after his football career stalled at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., in the 1980s, DiMarco — who has played, coached, and refereed rugby for more than 25 years — started a rugby club for his daughter, Alex, that has paid dividends in various ways. "If your daughter is the one getting all the yellow cards in soccer or lacrosse," DiMarco said in a phone ...
ATLANTA — University of Georgia football players Justyn Rhett and Joenel Aguero were weaving through Athens traffic, police said, when they were pulled over the night of Feb. 16. As they sat parked side by side in their Dodge Chargers off West Broad Street, the officer who had stopped the pair approached Aguero’s car and began scolding him. He had clocked them driving 19 mph over the speed ...
INDIANAPOLIS — Under the lights in the cavernous interior of Lucas Oil Stadium, Tony Petitti takes the stage. It’s the start of a new era for Washington and the Big Ten. The differences between the Huskies’ previous home in the Pac-12 and its new one were apparent before Petitti, the commissioner, uttered a single word. Take the setting, for example. Lucas Oil Stadium, the home of the ...
LOS ANGELES — Nearly two months after the NCAA and its power conferences agreed to a settlement that would allow college athletes to be paid directly by their schools, USC athletic director Jennifer Cohen still has far more questions than answers about where college sports is headed. Cohen can't say much right now about the school's plans for sharing revenue with its athletes as the final ...
Fashion provides now-healthy Ravens WR Rashod Bateman ‘peace of mind’ while he works for bigger role
“The foot is healed, and it’s not a problem anymore, thank God," said Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Rashod Bateman. That wasn’t always the case for the enigmatic former first round draft pick, which perhaps explains why he has a LinkedIn page, titling himself “Creative at Without Lords.” Under the “about” section, he lists: — Receiver for Baltimore Ravens — Owner-Without Lords — Owner-Without ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Florida State defensive lineman Joshua Framer didn’t mince words. It has been more than seven-and-a-half months since the College Football Playoff committee made its decision to leave an undefeated FSU team out of the four-team field that competed for the national title — making the Seminoles the first undefeated conference champion from a Power 5 conference to be left out of ...
Seismic changes have shaken the college sports landscape to its core over the past four years, and as of this moment, the ACC has been largely insulated from the immediate impacts of many of those changes. The league is not headed for imminent collapse like the Pac-12 was at this time a year ago. It hasn’t onboarded athletic departments in droves like the Big 12, either. And its status as a ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — SMU’s pride in joining the ACC has been obvious for months. The school is touting itself as the only ACC program in Texas. It’s using the tag as a recruiting and fundraising tool. Even just 21 days after officially joining the conference, head football coach Rhett Lashlee and four of his student athletes were candid about their excitement and eagerness to belong among the ...
