The University of Illinois will be well represented at the Summer Olympics in Paris, with six athletes and one assistant coach.
Iowa releases its preseason depth chart ahead of fall camp starting next week.
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 …
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 yo…
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 pa…
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 commiss…
Roster limits, future conference championship locations, expansion and the future of college football dominated discussion on the first day of Big Ten Media Days on Tuesday.
Iowa linebacker Nick Jackson said returning to Iowa for his second season with the Hawkeyes, and sixth overall in college football, was an easy decision.
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 ...
Bell, Belken named
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 ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — ACC commissioner Jim Phillips warned a crowd of media members on Monday there were “limits” to what he could say about ongoing legal battles with Clemson and Florida State. But he made one thing crystal clear. At this point, he and his conference aren’t interested in settling. “We will fight for as long as it takes,” Phillips said in his first ACC Kickoff news conference ...
On the July 15 edition of Yahoo Sports’ “College Football Enquirer” podcast, co-host Dan Wetzel opined that nine SEC teams had at least some shot of making the newly expanded 12-team College Football Playoff in 2024. After Wetzel listed, in order, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Mississippi, LSU, Missouri, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Texas A&M as Southeastern Conference teams that enter the coming season ...
BALTIMORE — Charlotte North can empathize with Caitlin Clark. As Clark did in women’s basketball at Iowa this past winter, North set several NCAA Division I records in women’s lacrosse at Boston College and captured the imagination of many young players before joining the Athletes Unlimited professional league in 2022. In many circles, she was regarded — and still is — as a pioneer who could ...
EA Sports College Football 25, among the most highly anticipated sports video games of all time, flooded the market after a decade away.
EA Sports new “College Football 25” has real players on real teams in an unreal video game experience. (Scripps News)
PITTSBURGH — The job Jeff Capel was hired to do felt impossible at the time: resurrecting Pitt men's basketball from the dead and restoring relevance to a program that had fallen on some seriously hard times, the nadir an 0-18 mark in ACC play in 2017-18. What Capel has done over the past six seasons obviously hasn't been perfect, but it absolutely warranted the three-year extension that was ...
DALLAS — A member of the Georgia Bulldogs’ football staff was betting on sports in 2020. The Bulldogs did not discover and process the NCAA violation until 2023, and the school did not report it on its annual compliance summary until it was updated this week. UGA did not identify the individual involved but told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that person is no longer employed at the ...
New Iowa quarterback is excited to compete with the Hawkeyes, however that shakes out on the depth chart.
The party commenced on the first day of July, the official start of what ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips called a “momentous occasion,” and it lasted into the night, with the Dallas skyline lit up in school colors to honor the conference’s newest member. Southern Methodist University, the private school in the heart of Texas, was now a part of a league born in North Carolina, and it called for a ...
DALLAS — Quinn Ewers made his debut Wednesday at SEC Media Days looking like he’d left his horse hitched in front of the Omni. Boots, hat, longhorn belt buckle. As fashion statements go, it beat his famous mullet. Give him that. But Steve Sarkisian seemed to like it, and not because he’s big on cowboy themes. He liked the swagger to pull it off. The swagger is different. Swagger is good. Case ...
SEATTLE — In September, a social-media account called "Is EA Sports College Football Out" began periodically posting one word: "No." Days passed, and the "Nos" piled up. No. No. No. No. No. But for dedicated college football fans, the wait was even longer. Before this week, Electronic Arts' most recent college football video game — "NCAA Football 14" — had been released on July 9, 2013. The ...
DALLAS — The Texas name carries, and the energy surrounding the storied program is as bold as the burnt orange blazer Steve Sarkisian wore on Wednesday at SEC Media Days. Despite being one of two newcomers to the Southeastern Conference this season, the Longhorns seemed like the most popular draw of the four-day media event at the Omni Hotel in Dallas. Dozens of cameras seemed to magically ...
DALLAS — As Nick Saban sat behind the broadcast desk at SEC Media Days on Wednesday, he attentively watched his successor Kalen DeBoer share his goals for the Alabama football program with reporters. Saban retired from coaching in January after winning six national championships in 17 seasons with Alabama and another with LSU in 2003. Alabama made the College Football Playoff last season, ...
Pleasant Valley grad and University of Iowa relief pitcher Jack Young was selected in the ninth round of the MLB draft on Monday.
IOWA CITY — Lucy Olsen, last season’s third-leading scorer in the country, has fit right in with the Hawkeyes.
ATLANTA — Leave no doubt – Kirby Smart is a brilliant coach. The numbers – back-to-back national championships, seven consecutive New Year’s Six bowl games – speak for themselves. His players train and compete hard and are tough, and dozens of them make it to the NFL. (The graduation rates do leave something to be desired, however.) Listening to him speak, the care he has for his players and ...
