Illinois Names Bret Bielema Head Football Coach
Illinois announced it is hiring Bret Bielema as its next head football coach on Saturday. The school’s announcement comes less than a week after it fired coach Lovie Smith. Bielema, whose contac...
Kevin Cash’s Decision to Pull Blake Snell: A Lesson about Analytics
It was Game 6 of the 2020 World Series, with the Tampa Bay Rays facing elimination. It was the bottom of the sixth inning, and the Rays led the Los Angeles Dodgers, 1-0. After Dodgers center fielder A...
Texans Fire Bill O’Brien: A Look at the Past, Present and Future
A day after falling to 0-4 with a 31-23 loss to the previously-winless Minnesota Vikings, the Houston Texans fired Bill O’Brien on Monday. Sunday’s loss was simply the last straw for OR...
Deshaun Watson Signs with Texans Through 2025
The Houston Texans locked up their franchise quarterback on Saturday, signing Deshaun Watson to a four-year, $160 million contract extension. The deal, first reported by NFL Network’s Ian Rapo...
Suspended Josh Gordon to re-sign with Seahawks
Josh Gordon and the Seattle Seahawks are reuniting. David Canter, Gordon’s agent, confirmed on Thursday that the two sides have reached a one-year deal. The caveat: Gordon is awaiting reinstat...
NCAA D-I Board Approves Additional Eligibility, Other Recommendations
The NCAA Division I board of directors voted to approve a blanket waiver that gives all fall sport student-athletes an additional year of eligibility and an additional year to complete it. Instead of ...
Georgia State QB Mikele Colasurdo to Miss Season with Heart Condition Related to COVID-19
Georgia State quarterback Mikele Colasurdo will not be able to play this season, he announced Thursday. He made his decision on the same day doctors diagnosed his with a heart condition related to the...
5-Star PF Pablo Banchero Commits to Duke
Five-star power forward Paolo Banchero committed to Duke on Thursday, bringing a much-needed breath of hope to the Blue Devils Banchero, the third-best 2021 recruit in the 247Sports Composite, becomes...
USC’s Jay Tufele Opts Out, Will Declare for NFL Draft
USC defensive lineman Jay Tufele will opt out of the Pac-12’s postponed season and will declare for the 2021 NFL Draft, he announced Wednesday. ESPN’s Mel Kiper ranks Tufele No. 22 on his Big ...
Nick Saban: Spring Season May Look Like JV
Nick Saban appeared on ESPN’s “Get Up” on Tuesday and wondered aloud what a potential spring football season could mean. He was less-than-optimistic, put simply. The Alabama coach reacted to the...
Chiefs to Open Arrowhead Stadium at Reduced Capacity
The Kansas City Chiefs have announced plans to open Arrowhead Stadium for the start of the 2020 season. The team said in a press release on Monday that it will open the stadium to 22% of its original ...
Oklahoma RB Kennedy Brooks Opts Out of 2020 Season
Oklahoma running back Kennedy Brooks opted out of the upcoming season on Sunday, according to The Athletic. Neither Brooks nor the Sooners have confirmed the report at this time. The report comes afte...
Ohio State QB Justin Fields Starts Petition Urging Big Ten to Reconsider Season
Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields has started a petition requesting the Big Ten immediately reinstate the 2020 football season. As of 4 p.m. ET Sunday, the petition had over 1240,000 signatures. In...
Oklahoma HC Riley: Nine Players Test Positive for COVID-19
Oklahoma football coach Lincoln Riley announced on Saturday nine players have tested positive for COVID-19 in the team’s latest round of testing. The team received the test results just before R...
Ohio State Commit Jack Sawyer to Forgo Senior Season
There is a growing trend among high school athletes. And within the Ohio State football program, the trend is as prominent as it is anywhere else. Buckeye commit Jack Sawyer announced Friday aft...
Four-star PG Jaden Akins Commits to Michigan State
Jaden Akins committed to play basketball at Michigan State on Thursday, adding to the Spartans’ talented future. A four-star point guard, Akins chose the Spartans over other finalists like in-...
NCAA D-I Council Recommends Eligibility Extensions Amid Pandemic
The NCAA Division I Council recommended that the Division I board of directors decided to give student-athletes impacted most by the COVID-19 pandemic an additional year of eligibility on Wednesday. T...
The NCAA and the Pandemic: What Should’ve Been and What Could Be
The NCAA has absolutely failed in its reaction to the coronavirus pandemic. And its failures are costing millions of dollars and once-in-a-lifetime experiences for the student-athletes it claims to ca...
Pac-12 Postpones Sports for 2020
The Pac-12 announced Tuesday its CEO group voted unanimously to postpone football, basketball and all other sports through the end of the year. The conference said in its press release it plans to ree...
Big Ten Postpones Fall Season, Including Football
The Big Ten became the first Power Five conference to postpone fall sports season over concerns about COVID-19 on Tuesday. The decision applies to both regular-season play and conference championships...
Mountain West Postpones Fall Season
The Mountain West announced on Monday it has decided to postpone the fall sports season over COVID-19 concerns. The conference cited the country’s ongoing struggles to keep the coronavirus under...
Top Combo Guard Jalen Warley Bolsters Florida State’s 2021 Class
Five-star guard Jalen Warley committed to Leonard Hamilton and Florida State on Sunday. He joins other top-50 recruits Bryce McGowens, John Butler and Matthew Cleveland as the foundation for the Semin...
Big Sky Postpones Football Season, Considers Spring
The Big Sky Conference is paving its own path for the 2020 college football season. The league announced on Friday its Presidents’ Council voted to cancel the fall football season, citing concerns r...
UConn Becomes First Major Football Program to Cancel Season
UConn has canceled its football season over concerns regarding COVID-19, the school announced Wednesday morning in a press release. With the decision, UConn becomes the first FBS team to cancel its se...
Big 12 Follows 9+1 Format for Football Schedule
The Big 12 ‘s Board of Directors announced a scheduling model that makes way for football this season. Featuring nine conference contests and an additional non-conference game, Big 12 is mandati...
WCC Implements “The Russell Rule” to Promote Diversity
The West Coast Conference on Monday became the first Division I league to implement a policy requiring schools to include a minority finalist for job openings in athletics. Endorsed by 11-time NBA cha...
Pac-12 Approves Altered Schedule for 2020
The Pac-12 announced on Friday that it has approved a plan to further modify its football schedule for this season. Expanding on the conference’s decision to adopt a conference-only scheduling metho...
Notre Dame Football Joining ACC for 2020
The ACC announced Wednesday its plan to include Notre Dame as part of the conference for the 2020 football season. Under the plan, all conference schools and Notre Dame will play 10 games against ACC ...
Alabama Gets 5-Star DT Damon Payne
Five-star defensive lineman Damon Payne verbally committed to Alabama on Sunday on CBS Sports HQ. The top-ranked defensive tackle and the No. 14 overall recruit in the nation, Payne gives Alabama its ...
Three-Star TE Gunnar Helm Commits to Texas
Gunnar Helm announced his commitment to Texas via social media on Monday, ending the anticipation created by his recent recruiting rounds. A three-star tight end from Englewood, Colo., Helm chose the ...
Blue Jays to Play Most Home Games in Buffalo
The Toronto Blue Jays have found a home for the abbreviated 2020 MLB season. The team announced Friday it will play most of its home games at Sahlen Field, its Triple-A-affiliate ballpark in Buffalo, ...
Blue Jays Searching for Home Field, May Choose Camden Yards
Hours before the start of the 2020 MLB season, there’s still a team unsure which diamond it will call home. The Canadian government over the weekend denied the Toronto Blue Jays’ request to pl...
Top 2021 Guard Matthew Cleveland Commits to Florida State
Four-star shooting guard Matthew Cleveland committed to Florida State on Tuesday, about three weeks after including the Seminoles on his list of five finalists Cleveland announced on June 29 that Leon...
Baylor Lands Kendall Brown, Another Elite Recruit
2021 five-star wing Kendall Brown committed to Baylor on Monday, he announced on Instagram. With his decision, he became the third player to commit to Baylor in the past week, joining Langston Love an...
JD Spielman Leaving Nebraska, Heading to TCU for Final Year of Eligibility
When JD Spielman took a leave of absence in March before spring practices began, there was speculation of his departure. The rumors came to fruition on Saturday night as 247Sports reported the receive...
Clinton Burton Jr. Switches from Florida to Boston College
2021 recruit Clinton Burton Jr. verbally committed to playing in Florida’s secondary last fall but recently changed his mind. The four-star cornerback announced this weekend he was retracting his de...
Former Utah QB Jason Shelley Transfers to Utah State
Jason Shelley is going from one in-state rival to the other. After entering the transfer portal in February, the former Utah quarterback announced his decision to leave for Utah State on Monday. The 5...
Jordan Hancock Retracts Commitment to Clemson, Could Choose Ohio State
Four-star cornerback Jordan Hancock decommitted from Clemson on Tuesday, becoming the second player to turn away from a previous commitment to Dabo Swinney and the Tigers in under three months. Hancoc...
Attaching Emotions to Entertainment: Respecting the Humanity in College Athletes
The coronavirus pandemic has made this a summer like no other. Social distancing. Stay-at-home orders. Things you’ve never heard of. Pretty soon, those bouts of uncertainty will circle back to w...
Big Ten Lays Out Plan for Football: What it Means and What Could be Next
The Big Ten became the first Power Five conference to introduce major changes to its 2020 football schedule when it announced its intention to employ a conference-only scheduling model amid the COVID-...
Analyzing the NCAA’s Decision to Allow Student-Athletes to Profit off Fame
The NCAA Board of Governors on Wednesday decided to allow student-athletes to profit from the use of their names, images and likenesses. Per the announcement, deals are restricted to third-party sourc...
Jordan Love and Green Bay: The Perfect Marriage
Jordan Love was one of the more interesting prospects heading into this year’s NFL Draft, and as soon as commissioner Roger Goodell called his name on Thursday night, his journey became even mor...
NCAA Allows Additional Eligibility; Here’s the Dilemma for Athletes
The NCAA Division I Council on Monday approved a waiver allowing spring-sport athletes an extra year of eligibility in light of the cancellation of the spring athletic season amid the coronavirus pand...
2021 Recruit TreVeyon Henderson Commits to Ohio State
Five-star running back TreVeyon Henderson announced his commitment to Ohio State on Friday via Twitter, adding to the Buckeyes’ 2021 class which ranks No. 1 nationally. Henderson, a Hopewell, Virgin...
2020 Colonial Tournament Preview
The 2020 Colonial Conference tournament will put the madness in March. With its top five teams packed within three games in the final standings, the conference has been competitive all year, and it wo...
2020 NEC Tournament Preview
The 2020 NEC tournament is going to be interesting. Merrimack came out of the woodwork, going 14-4 in league play and clinching the regular season, but the Warriors are ineligible for the NCAA, NIT or...
2020 NFL Draft: Risk and Reward with Tua Tagovailoa
Some team will make headlines and draft Tua Tagovailoa on April 23. Whichever organization takes him in will have done tremendous research on his ability to bounce back from the dislocated hip he suff...
Florida State Basketball: No. 8 in Must-Win vs. NC State
Florida State basketball was ranked No. 8 in this week’s AP poll, but it must show up for its game against NC State on Saturday. Sure, win or lose, the Seminoles are going to be in the NCAA tour...
ACC Supports Transfer Rules, Opens Door for NCAA
The Atlantic Coastal Conference (ACC) announced on Monday its support to allow student-athletes in all sports to transfer once without having to sit out a year of competition, joining the Big Ten̵...
Kansas-Kansas State Brawl: A Microcosm of College Basketball’s Biggest Problem
It was a Tuesday night and Kansas looked to be closing in on a 20-point home victory over its in-state rival, Kansas State. Viewers at home were dozing off and the crowd was heading for the exits. But...
The Value of Having Parity in College Hoops
Gonzaga has been the AP No. 1 team in men’s college basketball for each of the past four weeks, marking the longest tenure anyone has maintained in the top position this season. Whether the stre...
Clemson’s Dominance: How it Happened and Where it’s Headed
College football is a lot like life. Programs are either elite or mediocre, and it’s easier for the elite to become mediocre than it is for the mediocre to become elite. Dabo Swinney did t...
2019 Allstate Sugar Bowl: Georgia vs Baylor
The persona around tonight’s Allstate Sugar Bowl defines the end of the college football season. For Georgia, the appearance is a disappointing way to end the season, but for Baylor, it is satis...
2019 Belk Bowl: Kentucky vs Virginia Tech
The 2019 Belk Bowl features two teams in Kentucky and Virginia Tech that have had up-and-down, inconsistent seasons. Both teams head into this game looking for their quarterbacks to carry the load lik...