10:41 AM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — The University of Texas System regents have approved a two-year contract extension for Longhorns football coach Tom Herman after the program’s first 10-win season in a decade. The deal approved Thursday extends Herman’s guaranteed contract through 2023 and will pay him $6.5 million in 2022 and $6.750
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4:15 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — A former Notre Dame running back is headed to trial in state court on murder and 19 felony child abuse and neglect charges in the death of his girlfriend’s 5-year-old daughter. A judge told Cierre Wood that testimony from a detective, firefighter and medical examiner convinced her
4:30 PM ET SAINT PAUL, Minn. — You know the old saying: If you can’t beat them, kick them out of your league? That’s how officials at Division III powerhouse The University of St. Thomas said they feel after the school was “involuntarily” removed from the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) on Wednesday due to
3:11 PM ET The Florida Gators are down two linebackers with starting experience after Kylan Johnson joined Pittsburgh as a graduate transfer and Rayshad Jackson entered the NCAA’s transfer portal on Wednesday. Pitt announced the addition of Johnson, who started nine games and appeared in 33 for the Gators between 2016 and 2018. The Dallas
3:17 PM ET Texas A&M defensive coordinator Mike Elko has agreed to a new three-year contract with the school that will pay him $2.1 million annually, a source told ESPN. The Dallas Morning News first reported Elko’s new contract. Elko, in his second season on Jimbo Fisher’s staff with the Aggies, joins LSU’s Dave Aranda,
1:49 PM ET Former Florida Gators quarterback Jalon Jones is transferring to Jackson State, a team spokesman confirmed to ESPN. Jones, a freshman early enrollee at Florida, entered the transfer portal last month after participating in spring practice. Two Florida students accused Jones of sexual battery, stemming from an alleged April 6 incident at an
8:00 AM ET AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. — It’s fair to say that 2019 has been good to Dabo Swinney. He won a national title by upending the Alabama juggernaut for the second time in three years. He’s on track to nab Clemson the nation’s top-ranked recruiting class. He just signed a 10-year, $93 million contract
9:39 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Terry Donahue, the winningest football coach in UCLA and Pac-12 history, has been diagnosed with cancer. The university says the 74-year-old former coach was released from UC San Diego’s Jacobs Medical Center on Tuesday, four days after having surgery. Donahue will soon begin chemotherapy. UCLA didn’t disclose
4:03 PM ET Associated Press Mississippi State football coach Joe Moorhead has a little more job security now. The school announced Tuesday that he has signed a contract extension through the 2022 season that will pay an average base salary of $3.2 million. Moorhead originally signed a four-year deal worth an average of $2.75 million
1:36 PM ET Associated Press HOUSTON — A Texas teenager is set to be tried again on capital murder charges in the shooting deaths of his mother and his father, who was a standout linebacker for Texas A&M before having a short NFL career. The Harris County district attorney’s office said 19-year-old Antonio Armstrong Jr.