NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Maggie Corbin sits in the Hawkins Field seat — Section G, Row 2, Seat 1 — she has occupied at Vanderbilt baseball games since 2003. A hot May 18 day is starting to cool. She has gone through a pregame routine that includes watching the Commodores take batting practice, not watching the …
The unique partnership that totally transformed a once-hopeless baseball program Read More »
DESTIN, Fla. — The idea came up before the Rose Bowl, when Georgia and Oklahoma officials were hanging around, marveling that this would be the first time the two programs had played each other. Two big programs, connected through history for suing the NCAA and winning at the Supreme Court. Within a couple of years …
Why Oklahoma and Georgia ultimately called off their series: ‘We talked about it all’ Read More »
MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. — Shane Beamer’s South Carolina team had just completed an 8-4 season, highlighted by upset wins over Clemson and Tennessee, to secure the program’s first top 25 finish since a decade before under Steve Spurrier. He’d finished his player meetings to close the season and was surprised to later learn that four …
SEC football coaches sound off on tampering — but what about solutions? Read More »
We were the lucky ones, one afternoon during Week 1 of the 2007 college football season. As students at Michigan State, my friends and I had Big Ten Network in the dorm rooms. So, when we walked out of Spartan Stadium and heard Appalachian State was going down to the wire with Michigan, we ran …
Deion Sanders, aka Coach Prime, has done something that seemed unthinkable a year ago. He has made Colorado football Must-See TV — at least in September. Fox Sports on Wednesday announced that Colorado — which went 1-11 last season — will appear in the network’s first two Big Noon Kickoff games this fall. The Buffs …
Fox goes all in on Deion Sanders’ Colorado football team, at least in September Read More »
It’s that time of year. We made it. Official visits kick off this weekend, and recruiting staffs across the country are feverishly preparing for what has undoubtedly become one of the most important months on the college football calendar. What’s the ACC up to? Let’s check in on each of the league’s 14 schools with …
ACC football recruiting: 14 thoughts on 14 teams as summer visits begin Read More »
On Wednesday, perhaps by the time you read this, ESPN, Fox and others will announce their kickoff times for the first three weeks of the season. You will read plenty of coverage about it on The Athletic. As for weeks 4-13, while there have been a few announcements of specific games, you mostly will have …
Commercial Content 21+ Less than a week after Power Five win totals dropped, oddsmakers are back with win totals for the Group of Five. The biggest advantages in preseason college football futures often come from the lower-level FBS conferences. Just like the Power Five, a shift has taken place in conference realignment at the G5 …
MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa — Winds of change sweep across this idyllic southeast Iowa community of 9,000, where an Amtrak station separates an old-fashioned town square from a charming college campus. But the hospitable temperature and blue skies in early May belie this picturesque slice of Americana. After 181 years, Iowa Wesleyan, the small Methodist institution …
Texas coach Steve Sarkisian is expected to hire former Wisconsin coach Paul Chryst as an offensive analyst/special assistant to the head coach, an athletic department official confirmed to The Athletic on Sunday. Here’s what you need to know: Sarkisian hired former longtime NFL special teams coordinator Joe DeCamillis and former Portland State defensive coordinator Payam …
