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NCAA hands former Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh a 4-year show cause order for recruiting violations
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The NCAA announced a four-year show-cause order for former Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh on Wednesday for impermissible contact with recruits and players while access was restricted during the covid-19 pandemic, effectively banning him from college athletics until August 2028. The NCAA said Harbaugh, who left his...
NCAA moving closer to financially rewarding women’s basketball teams that reach March Madness
Women’s basketball teams are about to move a step closer to getting financially rewarded for success in the NCAA Tournament. The Division I Board of Directors was expected to meet Tuesday and introduce a proposal to give performance units to teams that make March Madness. Units represent revenue. “Unless something...
Pitbull Stadium is the new home of FIU football. The artist has bought the naming rights
Welcome to Pitbull Stadium, the home of your FIU Panthers. Florida International announced what could end up as a 10-year agreement on Tuesday with international recording artist, Grammy winner and entrepreneur Armando Christian Pérez — the Miami native better known as Pitbull — to put his name on their on-campus...
Penn State ranked 9th in preseason USA Today Coaches Poll; Georgia 1stVideo
NEW YORK — Penn State will open the season ninth in the preseason USA Today Coaches Poll, which was released Monday. Georgia is No. 1, a year after its two-year run as national champion ended. The Bulldogs received 46 of the 55 first-place votes from college football coaches. Preseason No....
Michigan’s Sherrone Moore faces allegations of NCAA violations in sign-stealing investigation
Michigan coach Sherrone Moore is facing allegations he violated NCAA rules related to an investigation into impermissible scouting and sign-stealing that hung over the program through its run to last season’s national championship, three people briefed on an impending notice of allegations told the Associated Press on Sunday. Two of...
Damages to college athletes to range from a few dollars to more than a million under settlementVideo
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 agreed to by the NCAA and five power conferences, a deal that also paves the way for schools to directly compensate athletes while attempting...
After 3 straight losses to Michigan, Ohio State coach Ryan Day finds himself on hot seatVideo
INDIANAPOLIS — Ohio State coach Ryan Day sounds confident and comfortable discussing this year’s football team. Never mind the three Michigan banners hanging over his head and slightly behind the podium where he’s speaking at the first of three Big Ten media days in Indianapolis — or that it’s a...
How college sports video games became the entry point to dismantle the NCAA’s amateurism rules
Sonny Vaccaro knew nothing about the law. He did know a lot about college sports and was sure the athletes who were driving millions of dollars in revenue to their schools should be paid. Michael Hausfeld knew nothing about college sports, but it didn’t take long for the attorney who...
Texas A&M not as noisy, which is good for Mike Elko
DALLAS — Texas A&M paid $75 million to fire Jimbo Fisher and hired Mike Elko away from Duke to bring some stability to a program that has been suffering through years of dysfunction. “A lot going on, it made it hard to kind of focus on football at times,” left...
5-star potential: Oklahoma QB Jackson Arnold and Tennessee QB Nico Iamaleava are SEC wild cardsVideo
DALLAS — SEC quarterbacks fall into a few categories this year. There are the cover boys: Texas’ Quinn Ewers, Georgia’s Carson Beck and Alabama’s Jalen Milroe who are featured on the deluxe version of the new EA Sports College Football video game. The experienced entrenched starters: Mississippi’s Jaxson Dart, Missouri’s...
Georgia has 2 more players, including LB Smael Mondon, arrested for reckless driving
Georgia starting linebacker Smael Mondon was arrested by Athens-Clarke County police on Wednesday night on charges of speeding and reckless driving, according to jail records. One day earlier, freshman offensive lineman Bo Hughley was arrested by University of Georgia police on similar charges as the team’s difficulty with driving offenses...
UConn, coach Dan Hurley agree to 6-year, $50 million deal a month after he spurned offer from Lakers
STORRS, Conn. — UConn and men’s basketball coach Dan Hurley have agreed to a six-year, $50 million contract through the 2029-30 season that makes him one of the nation’s highest paid college coaches nearly a month after he turned down a lucrative offer to coach the Los Angeles Lakers. Hurley,...
Utah State informs football coach Blake Anderson he will be fired for cause after Title IX review
LOGAN, Utah — Utah State informed football coach Blake Anderson on Tuesday that he will be fired for cause after an external review of allegations that he hadn’t complied with Title IX policies regarding the reporting of sexual misconduct cases. Nate Dreiling, who had been Utah State’s defensive coordinator and...
Oklahoma St RB Ollie Gordon II, who won Doak Walker Award last season, arrested for suspicion of DUI
Oklahoma State running back and Doak Walker Award winner Ollie Gordon II was arrested Sunday morning for suspicion of driving under the influence, police said. A state trooper in Cleveland County, Oklahoma, reported seeing Gordon swerving in his black 2024 Cadillac. The vehicle was clocked at 82 miles per hour...
Bye Big 12, hello SEC: Texas, Oklahoma party as conference move becomes officialVideo
NORMAN, Okla. — Oklahoma finally got the chance to celebrate its long-awaited move to the SEC. As the switch from the Big 12 became official Monday, the school finally was letting loose. Festivities started Sunday night and stretched to events statewide Monday. There were pep rallies in Norman on Monday...
Ex-Hampton softball star Bella Henzler takes big step forward
When Bella Henzler set a goal of making all-conference in the Sun Belt, the James Madison sophomore had to know the odds were stacked against her. Of the 278 softball players in the Division I conference, only 15 will earn first-team recognition. But the former Hampton star made the decision...
Big East signs 6-year rights agreement with Fox Sports, NBC and TNT
The Big East Conference will expand to having games on three networks and see a significant increase in revenues under a new six-year media rights deal announced Thursday. Fox Sports will remain as the conference’s lead network under the new agreement, which begins with the 2025-26 season, while NBC and...
Northwestern breaks ground on new football stadium
EVANSTON, Ill. — Northwestern held a formal groundbreaking on Monday for a new Ryan Field on the site of the demolished football stadium. The new Ryan Field is part of a $480 million donation from the family of Patrick and Shirley Ryan that was the largest in school history. Some...
Tennessee forces College World Series finals to 3rd game with win over Texas A&MVideo
OMAHA, Neb. — Tennessee’s Dylan Dreiling hit the go-ahead homer in the seventh inning and Nate Snead turned back a scoring threat by Texas A&M in the bottom of the ninth to force a deciding third game of the College World Series finals with a 4-1 victory Sunday. One of...
NCAA presents options to expand March Madness tournaments from current 68 teams
The NCAA has presented a plan to Division I conference commissioners that would expand the lucrative men’s and women’s basketball tournaments by four or eight teams alongside an option to leave each field at 68 teams, according to a person familiar with the details. The proposals were outlined to the...
Down a step from elite college football, officials pitch a model for a new sports landscape
Facing upheaval on the way in college athletics, a handful of administrators and athletes from smaller schools have been working on a new model of governance. The hope by members of the Football Championship Subdivision and Division I-AAA (programs without football) is to give their athletes more of a say...
Texas A&M defeats Florida to make CWS finals for 1st time as Gators shut out 1st time in 2 years
OMAHA, Neb. — Texas A&M is going to play for a national championship in baseball for the first time in its program’s 130-year history. Jim Schlossnagle had a breakthrough, too. The 53-year-old coach has brought seven teams to the College World Series since 2010 — five when he was at...
Tennessee beats Florida State to become first No. 1 national seed since 2009 to reach CWS finalsVideo
OMAHA, Neb. — Tennessee will play in the College World Series finals for the first time in the modern era after it knocked out Florida State with a 7-2 victory on Wednesday to win its bracket. Zander Sechrist held the Seminoles scoreless for six innings and the Volunteers struck for...
Les Miles sues LSU, NCAA and College Football Hall of Fame over 37 vacated victories
BATON ROUGE, La. — Les Miles, who coached the LSU Tigers to a 2007 national championship, is suing the university over its decision to vacate 37 of his teams’ victories between 2012 and 2015. The lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in Baton Rouge alleges that LSU never gave Miles...
Virginia, Tennessee, Florida expect experience from ’23 College World Series to provide an edge
OMAHA, Neb. — The game’s the same. It’s what happens away from the field and how players deal with it that can affect how long a team sticks around at the College World Series. The CWS opens Friday with North Carolina (47-14) playing Virginia (46-15), and Florida State (47-15) facing...
