6:02 PM ET Former Michigan State football recruiting director Curtis Blackwell visited the home of a five-star recruit along with Mark Dantonio and other coaches in 2015, a potential NCAA recruiting violation, according to new information filed Tuesday in an ongoing lawsuit. The mother of current Notre Dame defensive end Daelin Hayes said in an
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3:55 PM ET The NCAA Division I transfer waiver working group is considering a concept that would allow athletes in all sports to transfer once without sitting out a year of competition. If adopted by the Division I council, the new waiver criteria would allow athletes in all sports to compete immediately if they are
7:06 AM ET With spring practice on the horizon, national signing day (both of them) in the rear view, and the FBS coaching carousel finally winding down (apologies to Colorado), it’s a great time to update the 2020 Way-Too-Early Top 25 rankings. The four College Football Playoff teams — Clemson, LSU, Ohio State and Oklahoma
4:20 PM ET The ACC is joining the Big Ten in supporting a one-time transfer exemption for student-athletes in all sports. The league announced Monday that it “unanimously concluded” at its annual winter meetings that athletes in all sports should be allowed to transfer one time without having to sit out a year of competition.
8:00 AM ET IN EARLY NOVEMBER, with No. 1 LSU invading Tuscaloosa to try to end an eight-game losing streak to No. 3 Alabama, Tommy Tuberville sets out to work the tailgate tents on 4th Street. Tuberville is one of eight candidates for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate seat in the March 3
9:37 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — A former University of Wisconsin football player who is the brother of a standout in the 2011 Super Bowl surrendered to Chicago police on Saturday in connection with the deaths of two people who were found with gunshot wounds on a road in Janesville, Wisconsin. Marcus Randle El,
6:05 PM ET Associated Press EAST LANSING, Mich. — Mike Tressel and Ron Burton are remaining on the defensive staff for Michigan State’s football team. The team announced the two assistants would be back. A team spokesman said Burton will coach the defensive line, and Tressel’s role is to be determined. The Spartans hired Mel
1:30 PM ET Clemson fell short in the national championship game, but for the second straight year, the Tigers enter the season as the top team, according to the first Football Power Index rankings of 2020. Clemson returns six starters on each side of the ball, including all four defensive linemen and one of the
12:01 PM ET The Burrow name will remain in the LSU area beyond the school’s record books for a while, as the Baton Rouge Zoo announced Friday that its new male giraffe will be named “Burreaux.” You voted. We tallied. Meet Burreaux!!! Thanks to everyone who nominated and supported the cause. This little guy has
10:32 PM ET For the first time since Mel Tucker departed for Michigan State earlier this week, Colorado reached out Thursday night to Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy to gauge his interest in its head-coaching job, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. “Nothing imminent,” the source said. “EB is doing his due diligence.”
5:40 PM ET Eastern Kentucky linebacker Michael Harris, a former four-star recruit who transferred from Auburn, was arrested on four different charges Monday morning in Grove City, Ohio after he hoisted a police officer over his head causing them both to fall to the ground. Harris has been suspended from all team and football-related activities,
12:15 PM ET Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — Two former Ohio State football players pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that they held a woman against her will and raped her this month. Defensive backs Amir Riep and Jahsen Wint — who were kicked off the team Wednesday after the charges came to light —
11:15 AM ET The Football Writers Association of America has created an annual award in memory of ESPN reporter Edward Aschoff, who died on Christmas Eve — his 34th birthday — from previously undetected Stage 4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma in his lungs. The Edward Aschoff Rising Star Award, which was announced Thursday, will recognize one promising
1:38 PM ET After a slow start, the 2019-20 college football coaching cycle seemingly won’t end. Colorado is the latest school in the market for a new coach. Mel Tucker is off to Michigan State after only one year at CU, where he went 5-7, beat Washington and Nebraska, and signed a top-35 recruiting class.
11:42 AM ET The 2019 coaching carousel spun very slowly — and with the volume on low. This cycle projected to be quiet and ended up even quieter, as potentially landscape-shifting jobs like USC and Auburn remained filled. But there were still several strong hires made, which should pay off in the coming years. Unlike
7:00 AM ET Each offseason, after the recruiting season has been finalized and the first major wave of transfer portal entries has come and gone, I publish preliminary SP+ ratings for the coming season. I base these projections on three primary factors, weighted by their predictiveness: 1. Returning production. Last week we published my initial
1:52 AM ET Michigan State is set to hire Colorado‘s Mel Tucker as its next coach, sources told ESPN. Tucker, one of several candidates to seemingly turn down Michigan State’s initial overtures, became the focus of the school’s search late Sunday and throughout Monday, sources said. On Saturday, he tweeted that that he remained committed
5:32 PM ET Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — Target admits a onesie it carried in some stores misidentified the mascot for the largest university in its home state. The Minneapolis-based retail giant apologized to University of Minnesota Golden Gophers fans Tuesday for carrying a maroon onesie with the words “Minnesota Badgers,” the nickname of Big Ten