College Football

For Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel, Sherrone Moore earned the Michigan head football coach job through his four-game audition during the 2023 season. “The first one y’all blew off like ‘Warde could coach that one,’ no I couldn’t have, but y’all couldn’t blow off what he did on the road against Penn State and you definitely can’t blow off what …

NORMAN — With signing day having come and gone, and transfer portal season mostly in the books — at least until the spring when it kicks back up again — it’s time to turn attention to the 2025 class for OU. The Sooners already have nine commits in the class, with six from the state — three from Carl Albert alone. It’s another indication …

Brian Kelly and his recruiting staff have made a trip to Georgia to offer a talented wide receiver in the 2025 recruiting class. James Johnson is a 6-foot, 175-pound, three-star wide receiver from Douglasville, Georgia, where he plays for Douglas County High School. The Douglas County Tigers finished the 2023 season with a 13-1 record as they lost to Woodward …

There are a lot of positions of concern with the 2024 Florida team, but quarterback isn’t one of them. In fact, watching Graham Mertz and DJ Lagway and how they interact might be the best reason to go to the spring game in April. Many Gator fans have had visions of 2006 dancing in their heads ever since Lagway showed …

The Nebraska Cornhuskers have met with a class of 2025 prospect. Kolbe Volkmer is a quarterback for Pius X High School out of Lincoln, Nebraska. Volkmer is listed at 6-5, 220-pounds. Last year, he threw for 1,094 yards and eight touchdowns with seven interceptions. He only appeared in eight games during the season. The quarterback met with special teams coach …

Preferred Walk-On athlete Jack Gister is getting ready for Rutgers football Gister is planning to arrive on-campus come late May. A 6-foot-6, 230-pound product of Calvert Hall (Baltimore, Maryland), Gister committed to Rutgers last month. He is an intriguing athlete who has position versatility, having played tight end and defensive end. His offseason is progressing well as he gets ready …

OFFENSE QB: Noe Juarez, Senior, Happy First team all-state QB, Region 1 Offensive MVP, first-team All-Region Defensive Utility Player. Tossed 32 touchdowns while running for five more. RB: Sawyer Francis, Senior, Silverton Ran for 2,025 yards and 36 scores, caught 15 passes for 246 yards and four touchdowns and ran five kicks back for touchdowns. RB: David Meeks, Junior, Follett …

The saying goes, “Dress for the job you want, not the job you have.” And as I trailed new Florida A&M head football coach James Colzie III in Galimore-Powell Fieldhouse last Monday, I thought: “This is the guy.” The former interim coach operated as if he already had the Rattlers’ 19th full-time head coach job locked up by the way he gracefully …

While the majority of the organization focuses on the general manager search and head coach Jim Harbaugh’s introductory press conference on Thursday, four members of the Chargers organization have traveled to Frisco, TX for the East-West Shrine Bowl. Practices for the all-star event kicked off Saturday. Here are five players who stood out on the offensive side of the ball. …

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Some head coaches get more involved than others when it comes to recruiting. For new Michigan football head coach Sherrone Moore, he plans not only to recruit the next generation of players with extreme vigor, but he’s also aware he needs to recruit the current players on the team to keep them from entering the transfer portal. …

Michigan defensive coordinator Jesse Minter Michigan Wolverines defensive coordinator Jesse Minter, a 2005 Mount St. Joseph University graduate and four-year football letterwinner at MSJ, is joining Jim Harbaugh in Los Angeles and becoming the Chargers’ new defensive coordinator, according to a report from 247sports.com’s Sam Webb. Minter spent two seasons as the Wolverines’ DC under Harbaugh. Minter was Vanderbilt’s DC …

Alabama basketball aims to score a victory over LSU on Saturday at Coleman Coliseum. The Crimson Tide just wrapped up a significant win over in-state rival Auburn this past Wednesday in Tuscaloosa, and Nate Oats’ team will look to build on that win with a victory over LSU. The Crimson Tide remains in a prime spot to contend for the …

A letdown game of some kind certainly could have been expected from Alabama basketball. Fresh off an emotional slugfest victory over Auburn this past Wednesday, the Crimson Tide putting together a lackluster game vs. LSU wouldn’t have been shocking. There was no letdown, though. Especially not on offense. Alabama wasn’t perfect, but the Crimson Tide still ran LSU out of …

Sharlandiin Strange picked Syracuse on Saturday, the ACC program beating out a number of Power Five offers for the four-star defensive end. Syracuse landed Strange out of a final five that also included Penn State, Pittsburgh, Rutgers and South Carolina. He is a 6-foot-4 and 230-pound edge rusher from Cheltenham (Cheltenham, Pennsylvania). Last season in seven games, Strange had 42 …

If you’d like the chance to buy a house from Texas football coach Steve Sarkisian, there’s some good news. The cost just went down. Indeed, after putting his 5,331-square-foot, five-bedroom house on the market for an asking price of $7.5 million, Sarkisian and his wife Loreal have reduced it to a mere $5.88 million. A bargain, really, considering the open …