NCAA Baseball Page 111 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Saquon Barkley Slayed The Demons Of Kinnick Stadium
We all thought we had seen this game before. A Big Ten program playing better than they had in generations, heading into Iowa City as a favorite in a night game, sees their entire team slip into neutral under the lights at Kinnick Stadium. Everything that can go wrong for the visitors does go wrong,...
Clemson Kicker Tears ACL After "Freak Accident" On Last Play Of Practice
Clemson football coach Dabo Swinney announced Thursday night that kicker Greg Huegel had torn his ACL and would miss the remainder of the season. Swinney said Huegel’s injury happened on the final play of Clemson’s practice:...
Nebraska Promptly Fires AD After Huskers Lose To Northern Illinois
This afternoon, Nebraska announced the abrupt firing of athletic director Shawn Eichorst, five days after the Cornhuskers lost a home game against Northern Illinois. When Chancellor Ronnie Green announced the news, he cited a lack of results, the timing of which sure makes it seem like it’s directly...
Virginia Union Coach, Player Slap Phones Out Of Reporters' Hands
Virginia Union coach Mark James apologized to a journalist after one of his players slapped a phone out of the journalist’s hands during a post-game handshake that turned into a shoving match....
Report: Wheaton College Football Players Hazed Freshman In 2016, Still Played This Season
Five Wheaton College (Ill.) football players, including the son of Fox Sports football analyst Chris Spielman, were charged Monday with felonies after they allegedly hazed and beat a freshman in 2016 and left him half-naked on a baseball field....
Mike Francesa Goes Nuts Over James Franklin Icing The Kicker In A Blowout
In the last few seconds of Penn State’s 56-0 demolition of Georgia State on Saturday, the Panthers lined up to kick a field goal and at least get some points on the board. The 31-yard attempt went through the uprights, but Penn State coach James Franklin had called a timeout just before the ball was...
Auburn QB Kicked Off Team For Allegedly Behaving Like A College Student
Barely a day after it was reported that Auburn quarterback Sean White had been arrested for public intoxication, Tigers head coach Gus Malzahn dismissed White from the program, saying in a statement that White had “made poor decisions that are not in the best interest of our program, and more import...
Lamar Jackson Threw Away His Shot
If it’s possible for a reigning Heisman winner to fly under the radar, that’s what Louisville’s Lamar Jackson was doing at the beginning of this season. Jackson doesn’t interest NFL teams quite like more traditional quarterbacks out west—chiefly Sam Darnold and Josh Rosen. Some, including Bill Polia...
Northern Illinois Capitalizes On Nebraska's Charitable Offense To Pull Upset In Lincoln
Northern Illinois used a pair of pick-sixes to leap out ahead of Nebraska, and used another interception to seal the end of an upset over the Cornhuskers today in Lincoln....
New Mexico Quarterback Lamar Jordan Struggles Off Field After Brutal Hit
New Mexico quarterback Lamar Jordan had to be helped off the field tonight against Boise State, after taking a horrific hit from defensive tackle Chase Hatada. Jordan was taken out of the game—stumbling off the field and struggling to walk on his own—and replaced by backup Coltin Gerhart. Meanwhile,...
Steubenville Rapist Ma'lik Richmond Sues Youngstown State After Being Kicked Off Football Team, Cites "Anti-Male Bias"
After being told that he could not play on the Youngstown State football team this season, Ma’lik Richmond—who was found guilty of rape in juvenile court as a high schooler in the 2013 Steubenville, Ohio, case—is suing the university....
Two <i>Last Chance U </i>Players Charged In Stabbing Death
Isaiah Wright and Camion Patrick were arrested this week in connection with the death of Caleb Thomas Radford, who was stabbed to death on July 25 in Alcoa, Tennessee. Patrick was arrested in Bloomington, Indiana by IU campus police and will be extradited to Blount County soon, while his younger bro...
Kirk Herbstreit Smarms On Ohio State Recruit, Who Responds By Calling Him A Sheep
Last weekend, offensive lineman and five-star recruit Jackson Carman visited Ohio State. On Monday, he made the fairly benign comment that he would like to see Dwayne Haskins, Jr. get some playing time. On Tuesday, Kirk Herbstreit chided him for it and doubled down when someone suggested that footba...
Report: UNM Football Coach Bob Davie Under Investigation For Player Mistreatment
Bob Davie, head football coach of the New Mexico Lobos, is being investigated by the university following allegations of player mistreatment and questions about the integrity of the team’s drug-testing program, according to NMFishbowl.com....
USC Pretends Like It Didn't Lose The 2006 Rose Bowl
The 2005-06 USC Trojans were an unholy powerhouse that went on an 12-0 romp through college football only to be upended in the 2006 Rose Bowl by Vince Young and the Texas Longhorns. The Trojans later had to vacate all 12 wins from that season due to the Reggie Bush scandal, but, as Austin sports anc...
Oklahoma's Amani Bledsoe Sues NCAA Over Drug Suspension
Oklahoma defensive lineman Amani Bledsoe is suing the NCAA over his one-year suspension for performance-enhancing drugs, with a lawsuit claiming that the organization “arbitrarily and capriciously enforced the NCAA bylaws and policies on drug testing and denied Bledsoe’s appeal.” ...
Brian Kelly Can't Resist An Opportunity To Be Passive-Aggressive
Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly has turned a page in preparation for this football season. He’s learned from his mistakes that led his program to going 4-8. He—ah, hold up while he gets exceptionally bitchy as he argues the difference between one point and one possession after losing 20-19 to Geor...
Oklahoma QB Baker Mayfield Issues Weak-Ass Apology For Badass Flag Planting
At the end of the Oklahoma Sooners’ 31-16 victory over Ohio State in Columbus, Baker Mayfield taunted the crowd in one of the coolest possible ways: He planted an Oklahoma flag at midfield....
Hello Pac-12 After Darkness, My Old Friend
Like any great, late college football match-up involving a Pac-12 team, last night/this morning’s Washington State-Boise State battle went well beyond the bounds of acceptable football watching time, with triple overtime wrapping up after 2:30 a.m. on the east coast. Folks, this game had everything:...
Lawsuit: Notre Dame Covered Up An Alleged Rape Committed By A Football Player
An anonymous former Notre Dame student filed a lawsuit on August 17 on St. Joseph’s County Circuit Court alleging that a football player raped her in his dorm room in January 2016 and that instead of dealing with the alleged assault, as she requested, the school mishandled it and swept it under the...