10:05 AM ET LSU head coach Ed Orgeron said Tuesday the team will miss Dare Rosenthal after the starting left tackle entered the transfer portal. Orgeron had previously said that Rosenthal had the potential to be a first-round NFL draft pick. But the offensive lineman struggled to stay on the field during his time in
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6:27 AM ET How much is returning production worth when you only played a few games last year? The answer will determine how good the Pac-12 is in 2021. In February’s returning production rankings, the conference boasted eight of the top 15 teams, which would generally hint at massive forthcoming improvement. But Arizona State’s 11th-ranked
2:43 PM ET Associated Press PAWTUCKET, R.I. — The victim of a fatal shooting in Pawtucket over the weekend was identified Monday as a former college football star. Keshaudas Spence, 29, of Brockton, Massachusetts, was found in the passenger seat of a car suffering from a gunshot wound at about 4:45 a.m. Saturday, Pawtucket police
11:48 AM ET Stephanie Rempe and a small group of staff members at LSU have spent several hours each day in June diving down a seemingly endless series of rabbit holes. Rempe, who serves as the executive deputy director of athletics/chief operating officer of the LSU athletic department, pieced together a task force more than
7:00 AM ET Let’s face it: The 2020 season was not college football’s finest. There were empty or partial crowds, no tailgating and no atmosphere. In the run-up to the season, all of the sport’s cracks and flaws — the lack of centralized leadership, the outdated model for treatment of athletes, even the limitations of
9:29 PM ET An amended Title IX lawsuit against LSU adds coach Ed Orgeron as a defendant for failing to properly report an allegation of rape, according to a copy of the updated lawsuit obtained by ESPN. Ashlyn Robertson is one of three additional women to have joined the lawsuit, which states that in the
11:21 AM ET Bill Moos will retire as Nebraska’s athletic director at the end of the month, the school announced Friday. “I step away completely content, knowing that our athletic program is reborn and rebuilt and that it has a solid, stable foundation,” Moos said in a statement. Moos, 70, had led Nebraska’s athletic department
Jun 25, 2021 College sports is in the midst of its most significant changes in a generation. Current athletes, the NCAA, state legislators and members of Congress have all proposed rules that would provide athletes with varying degrees of new protections and opportunities to make money by selling their name, image and likeness (NIL) rights
8:00 AM ET A “re-energized” Gus Malzahn already felt like he was taking over UCF’s football program at the perfect time, and then the news dropped last week that the College Football Playoff was likely expanding from four to 12 teams. “This expansion benefits us as much as anybody in college football,” Malzahn told ESPN.
6:14 AM ET Bret Bielema believes there’s a specific moment on every recruiting visit in which something said or done shapes the prospect’s future path. When Russell Wilson visited Wisconsin in June 2011, he faced a decision not only between schools (Wisconsin vs. Auburn) but sports (football vs. baseball). He had produced a good career
5:34 PM ET Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear signed an executive order Thursday allowing the state’s college athletes — including players on the nationally renowned Kentucky and Louisville men’s basketball teams — to make money through the use of their name, image or likeness. The Democratic governor said he took the
11:27 AM ET The Tennessee Volunteers dismissed freshman quarterback Kaidon Salter on Thursday after he was arrested last week on charges of simple possession and driving without a license. Salter, a former four-star prospect from Texas, was previously suspended from the team in March after an incident at an on-campus residence hall. He was later
10:00 AM ET College football’s 2022 recruiting class is a little over halfway through its first month of visits in June after spending the past year sidelined by a dead period. This month will likely help prospects form opinions on top schools and lead to commitments. The visits were much needed for recruits and coaches
9:47 PM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — The Holiday Bowl will move downtown to Petco Park after its home of 42 years, Qualcomm Stadium, was razed. Holiday Bowl CEO Mark Neville confirmed the move Wednesday. He and officials from the San Diego Padres will unveil renderings Thursday of how the ballpark will accommodate a
4:23 PM ET Associated Press NCAA president Mark Emmert said Wednesday the association is working on interim rules that will permit college athletes to earn money off their fame and celebrity by July. The rules would act as a bridge until there is a permanent solution. In a memo sent to member schools and obtained
7:43 AM ET SHANE BEAMER IS not a meathead. He wants to make this point clear because, frankly, the visual evidence from Oklahoma‘s 2019 opener against Houston would suggest otherwise. What Beamer looked like that day, with blood clotting around a strand of tape that temporarily closed a half-inch gash just above his left eye,
2:31 PM ET DALLAS — The proposal for a 12-team College Football Playoff cleared another hurdle Tuesday, when the 11 presidents and chancellors who have the ultimate authority over the format authorized the 10 FBS commissioners to “begin a summer review phase” to determine the feasibility of an expanded field and work on the details
8:30 AM ET The Pac-12 gets a bad rap sometimes. The conference is generally regarded as the worst of the power conferences thanks to the fact that it hasn’t produced a College Football Playoff participant since 2016, but evaluating a conference solely by how many losses its best team has is a pretty flawed approach.