Though Arkansas enters the 2024 college football season mired in uncertainty, its future got a little bit brighter Tuesday. Linebacker Tavion Wallace, a four-star prospect in the 2025 recruiting class, has committed to coach Sam Pittman and the Razorbacks, announcing his decision at a ceremony Tuesday night. A standout at Wayne County High School in Jesup, Georgia, Wallace is rated …

Getty Images It hasn’t taken Josh Jacobs very long to jump on the Jordan Love bandwagon. On the eve of his first training camp with Love, the new Green Bay Packers running back spoke of Love the same way Reggie White likely spoke of Brett Favre following his breakout 1992 season.  “To me, just from what I’ve seen, he has all …

The first half of 2024 has provided sports fans with some unforgettable moments, whether it was the Kansas City Chiefs winning their second straight Super Bowl, the skyrocketing popularity in women’s basketball or the Boston Celtics cruising to their 18th NBA title. A high bar has been set for the rest of the year. Fortunately, the second half of 2024 …

ALEXANDER CITY — Redshirt sophomore kicker Alex McPherson, one of Auburn football’s most effective players, is dealing with a non-injury-related issue ahead of his third season with the team. “It’s a weird issue, and I really don’t want to go into that,” coach Hugh Freeze said Tuesday at an AMBUSH event when asked about the health of his team. “But …

PFF surprisingly ranks Bears’ secondary in bottom half of the league’s units originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago This offseason, PFF has unleashed its preseason rankings for a bevy of position groups. They recently did an overall ranking of each NFL team. Now, they’re ranking secondary units across the league. Surprisingly, they slotted the Bears in an unfavorable position, placing …

There’s no such thing as an easy schedule in the Big Ten. But, there are varying degrees of difficulty, and, in the new-look, 18-team Big Ten, there will be years where a schedule is just downright nasty. According to most analysts nationally, though, the Iowa Hawkeyes came out on the right end of that equation in 2024. 247Sports’ Grant Hughes …

The Tampa Bay Lightning signed free agent forward Cam Atkinson on Tuesday to a one-year contract worth $900,000, the team announced. Atkinson wasn’t headed into free agency when the Philadelphia Flyers’ regular season ended in April, but a contract buyout on Friday opened a new world for the veteran forward who has battled injury throughout his career. At 35, Atkinson, …

The frosty relationship between Russell Wilson and Seattle Seahawks appears to have thawed a bit. As Wilson starts the next part of his career Pittsburgh Steelers, he revealed in a video posted to social media Tuesday that he had received a custom throwback jersey from the Seahawks with his name and famous No. 3. The Seahawks debuted their 1990s-era throwbacks …

Jalin Hyatt has a problem that many of us would love to have: the second-year receiver struggles to keep weight on. But while a lot of us wouldn’t consider that an issue at all, it is for an NFL player trying to withstand the rigors of a 17-game season.  Hyatt, a New York Giants receiver who checks in at 6-foot …

Texas A&M is staying hot on the recruiting trail. After landing three-star defensive tackle Chace Sims earlier on Tuesday, the Aggies added four-star linebacker Marco Jones later in the day as they beat out Michigan, Texas and USC for the Danville (Calif.) San Ramon Valley. Just days ago, Texas A&M beat out USC and Oregon for four-star linebacker Noah Mikhail …

The New Jersey Devils on Tuesday signed free-agent forward Tomas Tatar to a one-year contract, the team announced, reuniting the veteran with a club he played on from 2021 to 2023. The deal is worth $1.8 million, and Tatar, 33, will likely slot into a second- or third-line role in New Jersey, after splitting last season with the Colorado Avalanche …

Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz sits down with new Packers RB Josh Jacobs to chat about why he’s already a leader in the Packers locker room, even though he’s the “new guy” and what he’s seen from QB Jordan Love so far at minicamp. Josh joined Yahoo Sports on behalf of USAA’s “Huddle Up for Home Fire Prevention & Safety.” View …

USATSI The Big 12 released its predicted order of finish ahead of the 2024 season as voted on by the media on Tuesday, and new conference member Utah was atop the poll. The Utes earned 20 first-place votes and 906 overall points to edge out second-place Kansas State.  The Wildcats earned 19 first-place votes and 889 overall points, while Oklahoma …

Veteran safety Tashaun Gipson has been suspended by the NFL for the first six games of the 2024 season for violating the league’s performance-enhancing drug policy. The NFL announced Gipson’s suspension Tuesday. Gipson, who turns 34 on Aug. 7, is a free agent and remains eligible to sign with a team and participate in all preseason activities, including games. His …

USA Today Veteran free agent Tashaun Gipson is suspended for the first six games of the 2024 NFL regular season for violating the league’s performance enhancing substances policy, according to ESPN. The safety played for the San Francisco 49ers for the last two seasons. The 33-year-old made an impact on the Niners both on and off the field. He started …