College Football

The Oklahoma Sooners get set for spring ball with one of the deepest wide receiver rooms in the country. Despite the loss of 2023’s leading receiver Drake Stoops, wide receiver is absolutely stacked heading into 2024. Nic Anderson and Jalil Farooq return after finishing second and third in receiving in 2023. Jayden Gibson is back as well after having a …

When Cypress offensive tackle Ryan Fodje committed to the Oklahoma Sooners, it kind of came out of nowhere. It wasn’t surprising that he committed to OU, but that he committed just as his recruitment was beginning to take off. In the weeks leading to his commitment, the Power Five offers began to roll in. But his relationship with the Sooners …

Luke Fickell’s class of 2024, his first full recruiting class as head coach at Wisconsin, can be labeled a resounding success. Time will ultimately tell how each signee in the group performs, and whether that occurs in Madison or elsewhere. But now that the 2024 cycle has officially concluded, we can officially give props to Fickell’s effort. Wisconsin’s class finished …

Deion Sanders wrote a new motivational book that comes out Tuesday with various tips for personal success, including a chapter entitled “Make Confidence Your Natural Odor.” But buyer beware: That advice about confidence seems to have double meaning. “I don’t use cologne,” Sanders writes in the book. “Somebody might pick up on my scent and ask, `What is that you’re …

It has been a little over two months since Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan Wolverines defeated Nick Saban and the Alabama Crimson Tide in the Rose Bowl overtime thriller. Little did we know that the instant classic would be the final game of Coach Saban’s legendary career that brought seven national championships, six of which he won in his 17 …

EAST LANSING — Jay Johnson and Scottie Hazelton always seemed like an odd pairing. Mel Tucker’s handpicked coordinators looked and sounded completely different. Johnson was clean-shaven with a professorial demeanor. He was exacting and precise with his words. Hazelton, in contrast, had a scraggly ZZ Top beard. He often rambled breathlessly with incomplete thoughts and run-on sentences. Beyond the press …

Jacksonville State will be starting to get into spring practice this month, and coming off a successful first FBS season there are a few things that this crop of Gamecocks will need to show this spring. The Gamecocks start spring practice on Saturday. The Gamecocks will be going through a few weeks of spring practice, leading up to the spring …

As if operating in Nick Saban’s shadow wasn’t enough, Kalen DeBoer has two more coaches he must live up to: Mike Norvell and Lane Kiffin.ESPN reported Wednesday that Alabama did not seriously consider Kiffin as a candidate to be Saban’s heir. It did consider Florida State’s Norvell. No surprise on either front. The Tuscaloosa News, in January, confirmed Norvell’s candidacy. …

Erk Russell had rare and extraordinary leadership skills.  Across the Southeast and beyond, there are hundreds of football players who would quickly attest to that. He had remarkable instincts with an ability to get his point across graphically and made every player, regardless of his ability, think he was the “little train that thought it could.”  Erk invoked humor to …

Florida football will begin its third season of spring football practice under head coach Billy Napier on Thursday in search of developmental gains. The Florida Gators went 5-7 in their second year under Napier, a season that ended with a five-game losing streak. That prompted a call out from the Head Ball Coach himself, as Steve Spurrier told Florida Times-Union …

Tennessee offered a scholarship to 2027 interior offensive lineman prospect Peyton Miller. “I’m excited to announce another Division 1 football scholarship offer from from the University of Tennessee,” Miller said. The 6-foot-4.5, 280-pound interior offensive lineman prospect is from Anna High School in Anna, Texas. There are not recruiting rankings currently for Johnson from Rivals, 247Sports, On3 or ESPN. The …

Alabama basketball’s SEC regular season championship hopes took consecutive hits on Saturday and Tuesday following Crimson Tide losses to fell to Tennessee and Florida, respectively. No. 17 Alabama (20-10, 12-5 SEC) fell to 0-2 against the Vols and 1-1 vs. the Gators this season, also dropping the Crimson Tide to third place in the SEC standings behind South Carolina, which …

Despite years of speculation he could ultimately succeed Nick Saban at Alabama, Ole Miss football coach and former Crimson Tide offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin reportedly was never “seriously in the mix” to replace him in Tuscaloosa, per a Wednesday report by ESPN. ESPN’s Chris Low on Wednesday reported on the whirlwind created by Saban’s retirement on Jan. 10 — including …

Anyone worried athletics director Greg Byrne is going to leave Alabama for Texas A&M should be able to take a deep breath now. Byrne told Yea Alabama, the NIL entity for UA, that he “doesn’t want to be the AD anywhere but Alabama,” the report said. “Regina and I have felt genuinely supported by President Bell, our trustees, coaches, staff …

Penn State continues their efforts in the 2025 recruiting class to add as many talented prospects as possible. With the Big Ten expanding, there is more need for talent now than ever. The Nittany Lions have done a great job at landing early commitments from many players in the class so far, but there is still plenty of time for …