9:31 AM ET A former LSU women’s tennis player has accused her former coach of lying about her knowledge of a Tigers football player physically abusing her between May 2017 and August 2018, and accused the coach of “betraying” her during an investigation. The former player, Jade Lewis, 21, of Hilton Head, South Carolina, posted
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7:05 AM ET Andrea Adelson Close ESPN Senior Writer ACC reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2010. Graduate of the University of Florida. David M. Hale Close ESPN Staff Writer ACC reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. John Thrasher knew how the words would sound. He even warned his audience in advance
8:35 PM ET The College Football Playoff management committee on Wednesday agreed to keep the playoff on its current timeline and name a national champion as planned on Jan. 11 in Miami Gardens, Florida, unless the coronavirus pandemic forces a schedule change, CFP executive director Bill Hancock told ESPN. The CFP management committee, which is
5:54 PM ET Former Oklahoma starting tight end Grant Calcaterra, who briefly retired from football because of multiple concussions, is transferring to Auburn, he announced Wednesday. Calcaterra said in August that he would return to football, but not at Oklahoma, a team he thanked both then and in Wednesday’s announcement. In November 2019, he announced
5:13 PM ET The Colorado State–UNLV game scheduled for Saturday is off because of positive cases for COVID-19 and the related contact tracing, the Mountain West Conference announced Wednesday. “Over the past six weeks, more than 2,600 tests have been administered to UNLV football student-athletes, coaches and staff with a positivity rate of less than
3:51 PM ET The Kansas-Texas game scheduled for Saturday in Lawrence, Kansas, has been postponed due to a combination of injuries and COVID-19 issues in the Jayhawks program. The game has been rescheduled for Dec. 12. “The position group affected has a combination of injuries and contact tracing,” Kansas said in a release. “Since Nov.
12:02 PM ET Florida State freshman quarterback Chubba Purdy, who made his first career start last week, will miss the remainder of the season following surgery, coach Mike Norvell said Wednesday. Purdy had surgery Tuesday on his collarbone, which he broke during a preseason scrimmage and aggravated during last Saturday’s game against NC State, Norvell
2:43 PM ET Family members of Ohio State coaches and student-athletes are no longer permitted to attend sporting events for teams playing this fall due to a stay-at-home order in Columbus, Ohio. The decision is immediate and means Ohio State will not have any family members in the stands for its game against Indiana on
1:34 PM ET No. 24 Louisiana‘s football game against Central Arkansas on Saturday has been canceled due to positive COVID-19 tests and contact tracing within the Ragin’ Cajuns’ program. According to the school, 33 athletes are in the program’s COVID-19 safety protocol — a combination of recovering cases, contact tracing, isolation and quarantine. The team
9:08 AM ET Georgia picked up the No. 1-ranked prospect in the state of Georgia on Wednesday when ESPN 300 linebacker Smael Mondon announced his commitment to the Bulldogs. Mondon is the No. 11-ranked recruit overall and a 6-foot-3, 220-pound prospect from Paulding County High School in Dallas, Georgia. He chose the Athens school from
11:17 AM ET LSU starting left tackle Dare Rosenthal has been reinstated to the team, coach Ed Orgeron said Wednesday. Rosenthal had started two of three games to open 2020 before he was suspended indefinitely in mid-October. Orgeron said he wouldn’t go into the reason for the suspension, saying that would be “kept in-house.” Rosenthal
1:04 PM ET The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has reversed a lower court’s decision and reinstated former Baylor football player Sam Ukwuachu’s 2015 sexual assault conviction for a second time, according to a ruling released Wednesday. Ukwuachu’s attorney has been appealing his conviction on a number of issues that have, one by one, gone
8:00 AM ET [Editor’s note: The college football schedule keeps changing, but the undeterred Bottom 10 keeps losing, especially in the Big Ten and the big brand-name teams such as Michigan.] Inspirational thought of the week: “What’s happening?!”“The staircases change!”“Let’s go this way …”“Yeah, before the staircase moves again …” — “Harry Potter and the
8:00 AM ET The hit was something else. Michigan defensive end Aidan Hutchinson — all 6-foot-5, 269 pounds of him — left his feet and came crashing down on the chin and face mask of Alabama quarterback Mac Jones. Trailing 13-7 in the first quarter, Jones laid on the ground for a split second as
7:45 AM ET Welcome back to our weekly Heisman Watch for the 2020 college football season. Throughout the season, ESPN.com writers will vote on their top Heisman Trophy candidates. To get the final rankings, we use the following methodology: 13 voters, five votes each. Points system: five points for first-place votes, four points for second-place
3:40 PM ET Associated Press Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence is fit, confident and, most importantly for the Tigers, virus-free. The junior said Tuesday that he is ready for the fourth-ranked Tigers’ championship run down the stretch. Lawrence missed the past two games for Clemson (7-1, 6-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) after testing positive for COVID-19, then
7:05 PM ET South Carolina star cornerback Jaycee Horn announced on Monday that he’s opting out of the remainder of the season to begin preparing for the NFL draft. Horn’s decision comes a day after South Carolina fired head coach Will Muschamp. 1 Related ESPN NFL Draft expert Mel Kiper Jr. lists Horn as the
5:59 PM ET The Miami Hurricanes had their next three games rescheduled as a result of coronavirus issues inside the program, forcing multiple ACC games to be shuffled around as a result, the league announced Monday. The Hurricanes, who played Virginia Tech last weekend without 13 players and was on the brink of postponing that