1:05 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — Former NFL and Texas running back Cedric Benson, one of the most prolific rushers in NCAA and University of Texas history, has died in a motorcycle crash in Texas. He was 36. Benson’s attorney, Sam Bassett, says Austin law enforcement told him that Benson was killed in
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10:26 PM ET LOS ANGELES — USC coach Clay Helton said that freshman receiver Bru McCoy‘s health is improving, despite a fever that has kept him from practicing with the Trojans during fall camp. McCoy’s father, Horace McCoy, told The Los Angeles Times on Thursday that his son has been dealing with a fever since
9:51 PM ET ESPN News Services Washington State‘s football team will be part of a series with HBO this season, the team confirmed on its Twitter account on Saturday. No details about the show have been released, but representatives from HBO paid a visit to the Washington State campus on Thursday and sent a camera
5:37 PM ET Liberty coach Hugh Freeze is recovering from surgery he underwent Friday at the University of Virginia Medical Center after a potentially life-threatening strand of staph infection entered his bloodstream and complicated what was already severe pain he was experiencing from a herniated disc in his back. Freeze, in his first season as
5:26 PM ET Texas receiver Joshua Moore faces misdemeanor gun charges after police arrested him carrying a loaded pistol in downtown Austin in early July. Moore, a sophomore from Yoakum, Texas, did not have a license to carry the gun and was released on a $6,000 bond. He has a court date scheduled for Thursday.
3:46 PM ET The Florida Gators and Miami Hurricanes will kick off the 2019 college football season, but the two teams have already set up when they will meet again in the regular season. According to multiple reports, the Hurricanes and Gators will play a home-and-home series in 2024 and 2025. Miami and Florida haven’t
6:30 PM ET Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina tight end Kiel Pollard is giving up football after a cyst was found on his spinal cord. The Gamecocks announced Pollard’s decision Friday. The 6-foot-1, 235-pound Pollard sustained a small fracture in his neck last week and was expected to miss up to six weeks.
5:43 PM ET Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. — Former South Carolina athletic director Mike McGee, a former Outland Trophy winner at Duke who hired Lou Holtz and Steve Spurrier to lead Gamecocks football, died Friday. He was 80. The University of South Carolina announced McGee’s death Friday, saying he died “peacefully” at his home in
7:00 AM ET Bill ConnellyESPN We enter every season with knowns and unknowns. That’s true whether we’re talking about teams, coaches or players. Entities change — and 18- to 22-year-olds can change wildly — and how much they change ends up defining how and what we remember from a given year. Take, for instance, a
12:08 PM ET Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns coach Billy Napier wants to see each of his players become dues-paying members of the school’s booster club, asking his team to spend a minimum of $50 to join. Napier, a former assistant coach at Alabama, now in his second season with Louisiana, said in a news conference Wednesday