The Hall of Fame ceremony will take place at 10 a.m. in Shuford Gymnasium on Sept. 14.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Darius Acuff Jr. became the first five-star basketball recruit in the class of 2025 to make his college decision Friday afternoon. The point guard picked John Calipari and the Arkansas Razorbacks. Acuff — a 6-foot-3 playmaker from Detroit — was a major Kentucky recruiting ta…
Thousands of former college athletes will be eligible for payments ranging from a few dollars to more than a million under the $2.78 billion antitrust settlement.
The Wake Forest coach talked rivalries, rosters and changes in the game.
MINNEAPOLIS — The detours on Khyree Jackson's path to the NFL — the community college he left, the hourly jobs he worked while thinking he was done with football — became the details of his story that resonated with Brian Flores so deeply this spring. From their first meeting at the Senior B…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Dabo Swinney has often said that he didn’t get a chance to join the Alabama football team as a walk-on wide receiver in 1990s, he wouldn’t be where he is today. So Clemson’s two-time national champion football coach, understandably, had a strong reaction to the recent news …
College football players are finally getting to be themselves — or play against themselves — in one of the hottest video games on the planet.Â
It's a college football player's paradise, where dreams and reality meet in new EA Sports video game
It's a college football player's paradise, where dreams and reality meet in new EA Sports video game
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 elected in his first year of eligibility after 17 total seasons in the NFL — 10 of them with the ...
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 Olympians from around the world benefit from a collegiate athletic model that is now in financial peril. With ...
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 Washington on Aug. 2, and this week's media gathering at Lucas Oil Stadium is serving as an introduction ...
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 ...
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 ...
John Currie will be among the athletics directors on the council who help select the NCAA basketball teams for the men’s and women’s tournaments.
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 ...
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 ...
CHAPEL HILL — The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill must pay $25,000 and its trustees must affirm a commitment to follow the state’s open-meeting laws as part of a settlement that dismissed a lawsuit over the board’s handling of athletics discussions.
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)
CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson men’s basketball coach Brad Brownell received a new, five-year contract worth $20 million after leading the Tigers to the Elite Eight this past season.
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 ...