10:06 PM ET Associated Press DESTIN, Fla. — Tennessee linebacker Darrin Kirkland Jr. won’t play for the Volunteers as a fifth-year senior this fall. Volunteers coach Jeremy Pruitt told reporters Tuesday at the Southeastern Conference spring meetings that both Kirkland and tight end James Brown have given up football because of injury issues. Kirkland, who
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9:47 PM ET Associated Press MOUNT VERNON, Texas — An East Texas school superintendent defended the vetting process and decision to hire Art Briles to lead a high school program three years after the two-time Big 12 champion coach was fired by Baylor amid a sexual assault scandal. Jason McCullough, the superintendent of the Mount
3:54 PM ET Associated Press The Southeastern Conference hired international accounting firm Deloitte to conduct a review of its football officiating, reacting in part to what commissioner Greg Sankey called the intense, often opinionated view of referees by the public and media. Sankey said conversations began in September about ways to examine officiating and ways
3:33 PM ET SANDESTIN, Fla. — Alabama coach Nick Saban doesn’t want his quarterback, Heisman Trophy runner-up Tua Tagovailoa, to get comfortable this offseason. Speaking at SEC spring meetings on Tuesday, Saban said that while a sprained ankle suffered during the SEC championship was partly to blame for Tagovailoa’s hiccups down the stretch last season,
9:00 AM ET LOS ANGELES — With one emphatic step forward, Khalil Tate toppled to the ground to let a kid barely a quarter of his size sprint by him on a mini post route. To the delight of a handful of children on Palisades Charter High School’s football field, one of college football’s most
11:52 PM ET Rod Bramblett, the radio voice of the Auburn Tigers, and his wife, Paula, were involved in a serious car accident Saturday night in Alabama, the school announced. The two-car crash, which occurred in Auburn, left a female passenger dead and another person critically injured, according to Lee County Coroner Bill Harris. The
2:10 AM ET Rod Bramblett, the radio voice of the Auburn Tigers, and his wife, Paula, died from injuries suffered in a car accident Saturday night in Alabama, the Lee County Coroner’s Office confirmed early Sunday morning. Paramedics responded to a two-car crash in Auburn shortly after 6 p.m. local time Saturday. Rod Bramblett, 53,
2:10 AM ET Rod Bramblett, the radio voice of the Auburn Tigers, and his wife, Paula, died from injuries suffered in a car accident Saturday night in Alabama, the Lee County Coroner’s Office confirmed early Sunday morning. Paramedics responded to a two-car crash in Auburn shortly after 6 p.m. local time Saturday. Rod Bramblett, 53,
6:49 AM ET The Future Power Rankings are leaping across the line of scrimmage. After examining three-year projections for quarterbacks and overall offenses, it’s time to give the defenses some love. 1 Related These rankings examine the next three seasons — 2019, 2020 and 2021 — and consider current players, incoming recruits and potential NFL
8:15 PM ET ESPN News Services Art Briles, the former Baylor football coach fired three years ago after an investigation found the school had mishandled allegations of sexual misconduct and violence, has been hired to lead an East Texas high school program. Mount Vernon High School said its board of trustees approved a two-year contract