3:01 PM ET Associated Press Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky has been given the same penalty at his resentencing as before: 30 to 60 years in prison. Centre County Judge Maureen Skerda sentenced the 75-year-old Sandusky on Friday at the courthouse in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. Sandusky was convicted of 45 counts of child
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12:56 PM ET Associated Press AUBURN, Ala. — Auburn University is retiring its 20-year-old golden eagle mascot two years after it was grounded from flying at football games because of heart disease. A university statement issued Friday says the bird named Nova is being replaced by another golden eagle named Aurea that will become War
8:55 AM ET Don’t sleep on conference championship chaos. In the College Football Playoff era, there have been just two upsets in Power 5 conference championship games — and both were Wisconsin losses in games where they were favored by four points or fewer. And zero top-5 ranked teams have been upset in a conference
10:42 PM ET ESPN.com staff They say a dog is a human’s best friend. Well, former Florida star quarterback and ESPN television analyst Tim Tebow, for one, showed how much his dog meant to him. Tebow posted an emotional tribute to his pet dog, Bronco, after the nine-year-old Rhodesian ridgeback passed away Wednesday. “One of
9:08 AM ET Penn State and Ohio State are two top-10 teams facing off for what could be the East’s berth in the Big Ten championship game and a potential spot in the College Football Playoff. While Ohio State is ranked No. 2 and Penn State is No. 8, the line on this game has
9:13 PM ET Oklahoma tight end Grant Calcaterra is retiring from football because of multiple concussions, including a recent one in practice. Calcaterra announced his decision Thursday in a video posted on Twitter. He hasn’t played since Oct. 5 against Kansas. The junior said in the video he’s had his “fair share of concussions” during
7:34 PM ET Oklahoma State quarterback Spencer Sanders will miss the rest of the regular season after thumb surgery this week, sources told ESPN on Thursday. Sanders suffered the injury on a pass attempt last Saturday, when his right hand hit an opposing player’s helmet on a follow-through in a 31-13 home win over Kansas.
8:00 AM ET James Franklin’s Vanderbilt Commodores seemed to relish the underdog role. In his three years as head coach in Nashville, Vanderbilt was listed as an underdog 18 times, covered 11 times and won straight up six times. The Commodores were seven-point underdogs when they won at Missouri in 2012 and beat Georgia at
8:30 AM ET The College Football Playoff selection committee’s top seven teams remained the same in its third ranking of the season, but there’s always something to debate. (Minnesota fans would like to know why Penn State is ranked ahead of the Golden Gophers in spite of a head-to-head victory and the same 9-1 record.
6:38 PM ET Starting last Sunday, dozens of high school football players around the country posted messages about receiving “offers” from Florida Gulf Coast University. There’s only one problem: FGCU doesn’t have an intercollegiate football team. It only has a club team. On Wednesday, FGCU officials said in a statement that they had been notified