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 …
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 Olympi…
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 Wa…
Matt Jones is going to hear Baylor head coach Dave Aranda talk a lot more this season. New NCAA rules permit one player to wear a headset in his helmet.
Jenny Fuller’s climb up the softball coaching ranks continues. Fuller has landed her first Division I coaching job, as Northwestern (La.) State announced her as its new head coach on Wednesday.
“Mean” Joe Greene delighted a packed room of listeners in Waco with lively stories from his days at Dunbar High in nearby Temple, his famous commercial, Steelers football and more.
There are 22 players on the Arizona State roster from Texas, and second-year head coach Kenny Dillingham is focused here as the Sun Devils transition to the Big 12.
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 ...
McLennan softball’s Jessica Smith won the Division I Assistant Coach of the Year award from the NFCA and NJCAA.
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 ...
Texas Tech head coach Joey McGuire, the former Baylor assistant, says that Houston Texans safety Jalen Pitre deserves a statue at Baylor, given all he meant to the BU program.
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 ...
“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 ...
Lately Baylor has managed to pick some recruiting fights, and the Bears have won their share. Dave Aranda has been honest about what has served as the knockout punch.
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 ...
Mike Elko has gone to great lengths to try not to pour dirt on Jimbo Fisher’s grave since Elko took over as Aggies coach. Fisher is Elko’s former boss, after all.
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 ...
In football, there are normal injuries — the hamstring pulls, ACL tears and such that put a guy on the sideline. Then sometimes you see the more serious injuries that make everyone wince, such as a head injury after a helmet-to-helmet collision.
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 ...
DALLAS — It could be a challenging season for Arkansas coach Sam Pittman, who sat down at SEC media days on Thursday and acknowledged the seat underneath him felt a tad warmer than it usually does.
Self-belief and leadership: Temple High product Taurean York is just a sophomore, but has already been voted by his teammates as one of two captains for Texas A&M this fall.
Caitlin Bickle is back in the WNBA, as she signed a seven-day contract with the Connecticut Sun on Saturday.
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 ...
The college track and field season is longer than Bob Beamon’s bounce. It starts in January with the indoor season opener and ends in June with the NCAA Outdoor Championships, and that’s not even counting all the offseason training and recruiting. It really can wear on a person.
Baylor first sent a representative to the Olympics in 1904, and this year is no different. Here’s a look at the 7 athletes (and coach) who will travel to Paris.
EA Sports College Football 25, among the most highly anticipated sports video games of all time, flooded the market after a decade away.
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