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West Virginia honors Huggins with 96-78 win over Buffalo
MORGANTOWN, W. Va. — Erik Stevenson scored a season-high 22 points, Jimmy Bell Jr. had a double-double and West Virginia celebrated Bob Huggins Hall of Fame Day by defeating Buffalo 96-78 on Sunday. With 925 wins, Huggins is third all-time in Division I behind Mike Krzyzewski and Jim Boeheim. Huggins,...
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker to be next NCAA president
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker will be the next president of the NCAA, stepping in to lead an organization with diminished power amid sweeping changes across college sports. The NCAA announced Thursday that Baker will replace Mark Emmert as the head of the largest college sports governing body in the country,...
Purdue hires Illini coordinator Ryan Walters as new coach 
Purdue athletic director Mike Bobinski promised to conduct a national search for Jeff Brohm’s replacement. He found the new guy just across the state line. The Boilermakers announced Tuesday they had hired Illinois defensive coordinator Ryan Walters as their head coach less than a week after Brohm left for his...
Former Gateway star Derrick Davis announces plans to transfer from LSU
Former Gateway standout Derrick Davis, the TribLive HSSN Football Player of the Year in 2019, has announced plans to transfer from LSU. The 6-foot, 210-pound safety and running back said he’d entered the transfer portal Monday. Davis played in four games this season for LSU and saw action on both...
South Carolina tops women’s AP Top 25, Kansas cracks poll
Kansas has cracked The Associated Press women’s basketball poll for the first time in nearly 10 years after a huge win while South Carolina remained the unanimous No. 1 team. The 22nd-ranked Jayhawks routed then 12th-ranked Arizona by 27 points on the road to break into the AP Top 25...
Purdue moves to No. 1 in AP Top 25, Alabama cracks top 5
Purdue picked up wins over West Virginia, No. 15 Gonzaga and No. 12 Duke in consecutive weeks to win the Phil Knight Legacy tournament earlier in the season. Wins over Hofstra and Nebraska last week, combined with a loss by Houston, were enough to move the Boilermakers to No. 1...
Texas suspends basketball coach Chris Beard over family violence charge
AUSTIN, Texas — Chris Beard, who coached Texas Tech to the 2019 NCAA championship game and was hired away by Texas with expectations he’d elevate his alma mater to the same elite level, was arrested early Monday on a felony family violence charge after a woman told police he strangled...
Playoff field set: Georgia vs. Ohio State; Michigan vs. TCU
The defending national champions, two Big Ten powers and an upstart that wasn’t even expected to contend in its conference this season. Georgia, Michigan, TCU and Ohio State were selected Sunday to play in the College Football Playoff, giving the Big Ten multiple programs in the four-team field for the...
Explainer: How will College Football Playoff expansion work?
The College Football Playoff will include 12 teams, starting with the 2024 season. An expansion plan that was crafted for two years and haggled over for another 18 months finally cleared all the obstacles needed to go from idea to reality. The CFP announced Thursday that the current four-team system...
Report: Former Pine-Richland quarterback Phil Jurkovec plans to transfer from Boston College
Former Pine-Richland quarterback Phil Jurkovec wants to try a third school before his collegiate eligibility expires. Jurkovec plans to put his name in the NCAA transfer portal, according to a report from ESPN. He will be a graduate transfer with one season of eligibility in 2023. With a good season,...
Houston reaches No. 1 in AP poll for first time since 1983
Make some room, Phi Slamma Jamma. Another Houston team has reached the top of men’s college basketball. Nearly four decades after Clyde Drexler and Akeem Olajuwon took the Cougars to No. 1, the latest bunch led by Marcus Sasser and star freshman Jarace Walker took over the top spot in...
South Carolina tops women’s AP Top 25; Stanford, UConn next
South Carolina remained the unanimous No. 1 choice in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll released Monday as the Gamecocks keep close watch on the foot injury of reigning Player of the Year Aliyah Boston. The Gamecocks received all 29 first-place votes in the poll released Monday, a day after...
7 Michigan State football players charged in Michigan tunnel melee
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Seven Michigan State football players are charged in the postgame melee in Michigan Stadium’s tunnel last month, according to a statement Wednesday from the Washtenaw County Prosecutor’s Office. The most serious charge is against Khary Crump, who faces a felony count of felonious assault. The charges...
University of Virginia cancels football game; shooting suspect due in court
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The University of Virginia canceled its final home football game of the season Wednesday, the same day a student accused of killing three members of the team and wounding two other students in an on-campus shooting was due in court for his first hearing. University officials and...
Iowa’s Spencer Lee puts pedal to metal going for 4th title
IOWA CITY, Iowa — The focus of Iowa’s Spencer Lee is so narrow, he doesn’t even risk driving over the speed limit. Lee, who missed almost all of last season after having surgeries on both knees, is back for a sixth year to chase a fourth NCAA national title, a...
Auburn fires coach Bryan Harsin, who won 9 of 21 games
AUBURN, Ala. — Auburn fired coach Bryan Harsin on Monday after less than two seasons, ending a rocky tenure in which the proud program struggled to compete in the Southeastern Conference. Harsin went 9-12 overall and 3-5 this year. Auburn has lost four straight games while struggling against Power Five...
March Madness a bedrock in ever-changing college landscape
If the latest spasm of conference realignment in college sports was supposed to spell doom for the Big 12 or Pac-12 — or for any other conference, for that matter — somebody forgot to tell the basketball coaches. In college hoops, where virtually all success is measured by how a...
Tennessee, Ohio State tied at No. 2 in college football poll
Tennessee moved into a tie with Ohio State for No. 2 in The Associated Press college football poll Sunday to set up a 1 vs. 2 matchup next week with top-ranked Georgia. Georgia-Tennessee will be the 25th regular-season game matching the top two teams in the AP poll, and the...
Friday Football Footnotes: Tom Brady passes Ben Roethlisberger for dubious record; the drop in NFL scoring 
In this week’s “Friday Football Footnotes,” Tom Brady passes former Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger for a dubious record. We discuss the fallout from Ja’Marr Chase’s injury, and we examine the lack of scoring in the league this year. Plus, we preview a tough weekend for local college teams. Brady ‘beats’...
Pitt’s Abanikanda, UNC’s Maye headline group of versatile ACC playmakers
Being listed at one skill position hasn’t stopped many Atlantic Coast Conference players from contributing elsewhere on offense. In fact, several are thriving because of their versatility. Pittsburgh running back Israel Abanikanda leads the nation in all-purpose yardage thanks to a string of eye-popping performances. North Carolina freshman quarterback Drake...
ACC preview: UNC, Duke stand out even with coaching turnover
Notre Dame coach Mike Brey was out recruiting during the Peach Jam summer tournament when someone cornered him with a question. “They said, ‘Hey Coach, do you think the two new guys at Duke and Carolina are going to do well?’” Brey recalled. “I said, ‘I hope not.’ But I...
Hoosiers picked as team to beat in Big Ten season of change
It’s a season of change in the Big Ten. Indiana is the preseason choice to win the championship after finishing ninth last season. Wisconsin is picked ninth after sharing the title with Illinois. Purdue will enter the season outside the Associated Press Top 25 after appearing in six of the...
South Carolina women unanimous No. 1 in preseason AP Top 25
Dawn Staley and South Carolina picked up right where they left off: No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball poll. The defending national champion Gamecocks were the unanimous choice of the 30-member national media panel in the preseason poll released Tuesday. It’s the third consecutive season South...
AP Top 25: UGA back at No. 1, Alabama slips to 3 behind OSU
Georgia took back the No. 1 spot in the Associated Press college football poll from Alabama on Sunday after being bumped out last week by the Crimson Tide, who slid to No. 3. The Bulldogs received 32 first-place votes and 1,535 points in the Top 25, presented by Regions Bank,...
After surge in first-half firings, can seasons be salvaged?
The move was shocking for its timing and memorable for its location. Lane Kiffin was fired by Southern California on Sept. 29, 2013, just five games into the season, on the airport tarmac after the team plane returned home from Arizona State. While not unprecedented, such an early coaching change...


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