A couple of weeks before Morgan State would hire Tyrone Wheatley to helm the football program, athletic director Edward Scott and Wheatley engaged in a two-hour phone conversation. The topics during the first hour, according to Scott, bounced around from life to philosophy to children to family....
Penn State has lost 16 players with eligibility to the frightful “transfer portal” and NFL draft, the result of what coach James Franklin called a rules overreaction. Now, “free agency” has come to college football, and that’s keeping Penn State’s coach awake. “My concern isn't really about Penn...
Isheem Young, the former Imhotep Charter football star and Penn State recruit, signed a letter of intent with Iowa State on Wednesday, eight months after pleading guilty to participating in a robbery at a Philadelphia Wawa store. Young’s case was sent to juvenile court last May after he agreed...
Warren Sapp II is like his father in some ways, but don’t get carried away with comparisons between the two, says the younger Sapp. “Yeah, I don’t have a big mouth like him … but I get a little psyched,” Warren II said with a laugh. “I’m definitely my own man.” But there are certain traits the...
Former San Diego State head football coach Brady Hoke is expected to be announced as SDSU’s new defensive line coach, perhaps as soon as Wednesday, returning to the school he left eight years ago when he was hired as Michigan’s head coach. Hoke was back on campus Monday, meeting with SDSU players...
Tallahassee police said Monday they do not have enough evidence to pursue domestic-violence charges against former FSU quarterback Deondre Francois because no one has come forward to file a complaint against him. A message posted on the Instagram account of Francois’ ex-girlfriend states the football...
Florida State starting quarterback Deondre Francois has been dismissed from the team after a domestic dispute surfaced on social media Saturday night. The school released a statement from head coach Willie Taggart Sunday afternoon announcing Francois’ departure. “Last night, I informed Deondre...
Barry Odom had every reason to believe Missouri's football program finally was on the right track. The Tigers were coming off their second consecutive bowl appearance. He had just signed a contract extension to remain coach through 2024. Clemson quarterback Kelly Bryant announced he would finish...
The rich get richer. The SEC announced Friday it will distribute $43.1 million in revenue to each of its 14 schools school, up 5.4 percent from a year earlier. Every dollar counts these days as the cost of business keeps going up. At UF, for example, head football coach Dan Mullen receives $6.1...
Much of the heavy lifting involved in landing UCF’s recruiting class was done back in mid-December when the program signed 18 of its 22 Class of 2019 commitments. Six of those players are already on campus, attending classes and participating in offseason workouts. But perhaps the biggest recruiting...
Like most grooms, Cody Hodges had some big decisions to make about the men who would stand next to him on his wedding day. Two years his senior, Kliff Kingsbury had been like a big brother to Hodges when he arrived at Texas Tech in the summer of 2001, taking him under his wing in Mike Leach’s wacky...
The NCAA handed one-year postseason bans and other penalties to Missouri’s football, baseball and softball programs while placing its entire athletic department on probation Thursday after a two-year investigation revealed academic misconduct involving a former tutor. The penalties mean the Tigers...
Marathon overtime games in college football, such as the one LSU and Texas A&M played last season, are already rare. The NCAA would like them to become extinct. Concerned about increased injury risk to players, the football rules committee later this month will consider tweaks to the overtime format....