NFL rumors: 49ers promote Sorensen to DC, hire Staley as assistant HC originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area The 49ers are plan to promote Nick Sorensen to fill their open defensive coordinator position and hire former Los Angeles Chargers head coach Brandon Staley as their new assistant head coach, ESPN’s Adam Schefter and Jeremy Fowler reported Saturday morning, citing …

One of the USC Trojans’ top defensive targets in the 2025 class has narrowed down his recruitment. Four-star Texas native and linebacker Elijah Barnes released a top 10 on Friday consisting of USC, LSU, Florida State, Texas A&M, SMU, Alabama, Oregon, Ohio State Nebraska and Texas. The Skyline (Dallas) product currently ranks as the No. 107 player nationally, the No. …

Heading into the 2024 college football season, changes are upon us, led by the expanded 12-team playoff structure which will create much needed parity within a sport that a handful of team has dominated throughout the last decade. The SEC will also expand starting in July, with the inclusion of Texas and Oklahoma as the most powerful conference in the …

One of New Jersey’s top recruits, Michael Thomas III, dropped his top five on Friday. And for Rutgers football, there was some good news in the announcement. Thomas, despite being one of New Jersey’s top-ranked recruits, is vastly underrated as a prospect. A four-star wide receiver out of Donovan Catholic (Barnegat, New Jersey), Thomas is a top-three recruit in New …

Nick Sorensen is the 49ers’ new defensive coordinator, and Brandon Staley is the newest member of the coaching staff. The 49ers have promoted Sorensen to the coordinator role while giving Staley a role on the defensive staff as well, according to ESPN. Sorensen has been an assistant in San Francisco the last two years. Last year his title was defensive …

Tennessee offered a scholarship to 2025 safety prospect Byron Baldwin. “Tennessee offered,” Baldwin said. The 6-foot, 175-pound safety prospect is from Calvert Hall College High School in Towson, Maryland. There are not recruiting rankings currently for Baldwin from Rivals, 247Sports, On3 or ESPN. He is recruited by Tennessee defensive coordinator Tim Banks. The Vols are the third Southeastern Conference school …

The spring practice period is the college football fan’s glimpse into the future at what the upcoming season may hold. That was the case for the 2023 Wisconsin Badgers, as a big spring from wide receiver Will Pauling translated into a productive fall, while a poor spring from the offensive line also foreshadowed what was to come. That’s the importance …

Badgers Wire site editor Ben Kenney joined Trojans Wire‘s Matt Zemek on the Trojans Wired podcast today to discuss a variety of topics, focused on where Wisconsin and USC stand in the new Big Ten landscape. In the episode, Ben gave specific thoughts on the following: What should we make of the new Big Ten landscape and the progression of …

Greg Wyshynski, ESPNMar 2, 2024, 07:00 AM ET CloseGreg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. Matt Rempe’s eye looked like a wall of paint samples at a hardware store. A lot of black, some blue, a touch of chartreuse around the edges. Facial bruising is a commonplace sight on an NHL rink. Rempe’s shiner was more noticeable because he stands …

Eagles combine notebook: How much will Eagles play young players going forward? originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia INDIANAPOLIS — The Eagles entered the 2023 season coming off a Super Bowl appearance and in win-now mode. So it makes sense that they weren’t in a rush to play a bunch of rookies. But Eagles general manager Howie Roseman on Tuesday …

The marque matchup of the college basketball weekend will take place in Tuscaloosa when Nate Oats and the Alabama Crimson Tide host Rick Barnes and the Tennessee Volunteers inside Coleman Coliseum on Saturday night. With the Tide and Vols tied atop the SEC standings, Saturday’s contest could go a long way in deciding who is crowned as the regular season …

Three decades after the NFL started putting speakers in quarterbacks’ helmets so they could hear the coaches’ play calls, college football may follow suit. The NCAA Football Rules Committee proposed a rule that would allow one player to have a speaker in his helmet to hear his coaches. “In games involving Football Bowl Subdivision teams, each school would have the …

Dylan Guenther scored the tiebreaking goal early in the third period as the Arizona Coyotes beat the Ottawa Senators 5-3 on Friday night to snap a 14-game losing streak. Michael Carcone, J.J. Moser, Nick Schmaltz and Matias Maccelli also scored to help the Coyotes get their first win since Jan. 22 and end an 0-12-2 skid. Karel Vejmelka stopped 34 …

Adam Schefter shares what he thinks Bears will get in potential Justin Fields trade originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago With every passing day, it seems more likely that the Bears will select Caleb Williams with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft. If the Bears heard everything they needed to hear in their interview with Williams …

When Nick Saban retired from his post as Alabama head coach, there weren’t too many candidates that were seen as qualified to replace him. Texas coach Steve Sarkisian, however, was qualified. His connections to Alabama? He was Saban’s offensive coordinator and protégé before he landed in Austin. His ability to create a winning program? Seen with the way he led …