5:26 PM ET ESPN News Services CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Pro Football Hall of Famer Ed Reed is going back to his roots and rejoining the Miami Hurricanes. Reed has been hired as the new chief of staff for the Hurricanes’ football program, a deal that was announced Thursday and will be finalized when the
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4:27 PM ET Three days after he was suspended for expressing a desire to dine with Adolf Hitler in an interview, Morris Berger resigned as the offensive coordinator at Grand Valley State, the school announced Thursday. Berger’s resignation is effective immediately, according to the school. “Over the last 11 years I have taken great pride
4:03 PM ET Utah wide receiver Terrell Perriman has been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and raping a 17-year-old girl. Perriman, a redshirt freshman from Miami, has not been charged but was booked Thursday at Salt Lake County jail for suspicion of rape, kidnapping, enticing a minor by internet or text and dealing in material
3:03 PM ET Associated Press SALISBURY, N.C. — Ryan Williams, a junior quarterback at Livingstone College in North Carolina, was paralyzed after a shooting in which at least six people were wounded during a party at a restaurant, police said. Williams of Jacksonville, Florida, was among the victims shot at a Salisbury restaurant early Sunday,
7:55 PM ET Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — Michael Wright, a former Minnesota football star who led grocery wholesaler Supervalu Inc. for 20 years, has died. He was 81. Wright died Monday at his home in Wayzata of complications from pneumonia, Wright’s son, Adam Wright, told the Star Tribune. A Minneapolis native, Wright excelled in both
7:00 AM ET If, for some reason, someone wanted to put together a list of the most insignificant San Francisco 49ers games over the past 40 years, the team’s loss at New England to close out the 2004 season would be a strong candidate to top the list. The 49ers had already clinched the league’s
2:30 PM ET Associated Press BELLEFONTE, Pa. — A judge flatly rejected Jerry Sandusky’s latest request to have his 30- to 60-year child molestation sentence reduced during a brief hearing Tuesday. Judge Maureen Skerda said she purposely fashioned the prison term to have an impact on the former Penn State assistant football coach and noted
3:01 PM ET Grand Valley State University has suspended offensive coordinator Morris Berger as the school investigates comments Berger made to a student newspaper regarding Adolf Hitler. Berger was interviewed in the Grand Valley Lanthorn paper and was asked which three historical figures Berger would have dinner with. Berger responded by saying one of his
3:49 PM ET Oklahoma legend DeMarco Murray is going back to school. The Sooners’ leader in all-purpose yards and career touchdowns has been hired as the team’s running backs coach, head coach Lincoln Riley announced Monday. Murray starred at Oklahoma from 2007 to ’10 before beginning a seven-year NFL career with the Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia
2:51 PM ET LSU has hired Youngstown State coach Bo Pelini as defensive coordinator, the school announced Monday. “We are privileged to have one of the top defensive coordinators in all of football in Bo Pelini join our staff,” Tigers coach Ed Orgeron said in a statement. “Bo has had some of the best defenses
11:53 AM ET Rocky Long is returning to New Mexico as the team’s defensive coordinator, weeks after stepping down as San Diego State‘s head coach. Danny Gonzales, New Mexico’s new head coach, announced Monday morning that Long would be the team’s defensive coordinator and linebackers coach. Look who’s back on the sideline together!!! Welcome back
Jan 13, 2020 ESPN staff That the best player in the history of college football didn’t win the Heisman Trophy says less about the player than it does about college football. Jim Brown of Syracuse finished fifth in the vote to select the most outstanding player of 1956. A significant portion of the electorate balked
Dec 27, 2019 On the night of Sept. 30, 1974, Daniel Eugene Ruettiger made eye contact with Elvis Presley. It happened just outside Gate 8 of Notre Dame’s Athletic and Convocation Center, not as the King was leaving the building but as he arrived. Presley’s limousine rolled up, parked outside and just sat there. For
8:00 AM ET Editor’s Note: Since today is National Puppy Day, here’s Mark Schlabach’s story about the time his dog ran onto the field during a Georgia-Kentucky football game. It was originally published in November. Make sure to enjoy Monday’s Puppy Day marathon on ESPN2 from 6 pm.-12 a.m. ET. Last week, a black cat
Nov 15, 2018 Patrons at a small bar in Pocatello, Idaho, were a bit confused as to why a stranger showed up intent on watching the Harvard-Yale football game one day in 1982. He tried to explain, but no one really paid much attention until he offered to buy all the beer. Had they been