10:27 PM ET Jordan McNair’s father, Marty, stood in front of the Gossett Football Team House on Maryland’s campus answering questions about the university’s decision to fire head football coach DJ Durkin. McNair stood only feet from three-month old tea lights positioned in the No. 79 to honor his son, who died of heatstroke on
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7:35 PM ET The University of Maryland has fired football coach DJ Durkin one day after his reinstatement, the school announced Wednesday evening. In a statement, president Wallace D. Loh said, “Yesterday, the University System of Maryland Board of Regents announced numerous recommendations, including employment decisions about specific personnel on our campus. I accepted the
Oct 30, 2018 It was Nov. 11, 1979, a chilly, damp Saturday night in Death Valley, and the final horn had just sounded from a scoreboard that read “Alabama 3, LSU 0.” Paul “Bear” Bryant and his state troopers marched toward midfield. The man in the houndstooth hat extended his hand to greet his former
Oct 29, 2018 TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Nick Saban doesn’t understand the fuss. It annoys him that anyone who understands football would even ask the question. This Alabama team? The best ever? Have you watched the video? Have you seen the mistakes? Isn’t it as obvious as the scowl on his face that the Crimson Tide
12:15 PM ET COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The University of Maryland’s student government association has organized a rally Thursday to protest the reinstatement of football coach DJ Durkin and to demand justice for Jordan McNair, the Maryland offensive linemen who died June 13 from heatstroke he suffered after a May 29 team workout. Durkin returned
8:13 PM ET For the third time in the ranking’s five-year history, the SEC sits atop the first College Football Playoff ranking of the season. 1. Alabama (8-0)2. Clemson (8-0)3. LSU (7-1)4. Notre Dame (8-0)5. Michigan (7-1)6. Georgia (7-1)7. Oklahoma (7-1)8. Washington State (7-1)9. Kentucky (7-1)10. Ohio State (7-1)11. Florida (6-2)12. UCF (7-0)13. West Virginia
10:00 PM ET Before anything else, before debating what the word toxic means or whether Maryland football coach DJ Durkin can change his ways, let us not forget just how spectacularly Durkin failed: 19-year-old Jordan McNair is dead, and his mother and father are left to grieve their son for eternity. “I feel like I’ve
7:00 PM ET GRAPEVINE, Texas — The SEC’s dominance this season was reflected in the College Football Playoff selection committee’s first ranking of the season, as one-loss LSU jumped undefeated Notre Dame for the No. 3 spot, joining No. 1 Alabama and No. 2 Clemson in the CFP semifinals. With this particular ranking, there would
1:00 AM ET The first playoff rankings are out, and at Alabama and Clemson and even UCF, there will be ongoing debates asking who’s in. For the rest of the college football world, however, their place in the rankings is little consolation for crushed playoff dreams. The optimism of September has been replaced with the
6:54 PM ET Rutgers dismissed Izaia Bullock from the football program Tuesday after the linebacker was charged with plotting to murder two people. Bullock, 22, “initiated a plot to murder the family members of an acquaintance” earlier in the week, according to a statement from the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office. Bullock was charged Tuesday with