11:32 AM ET Penn State offensive lineman Nana Asiedu announced Wednesday that his football career is over due to a genetic heart condition. Asiedu would have been a true freshman this season for the Nittany Lions, but found out he has hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and will no longer be allowed to play football. God has other
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10:21 AM ET Marcus Hooker, a freshman safety for the Ohio State Buckeyes and younger brother of Indianapolis Colts safety Malik Hooker, has been charged with DUI in Neshannock Township, Pennsylvania. Hooker, 18, was stopped by police on June 16. He was also charged with having a high rate of alcohol in his system, the
2:01 AM ET Associated Press BEIJING — A Chinese court sentenced former American football player Wendell Brown to four years in prison Thursday for being involved in a bar fight, a punishment his lawyer and an activist called excessive. Brown, a native of Detroit who played for Ball State University in Indiana, had been teaching
10:30 PM ET KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — John Ward’s unmistakable and wonderfully crisp voice painted the picture of Tennessee football and basketball on the radio for parts of four decades. On Wednesday night, generations of fans who hung on his every “Give him six!” and every “Bottom!” came to Thompson-Boling Arena to pay their last respects
5:57 PM ET Former Baylor athletic director Ian McCaw alleged a conspiracy at the “highest level” at Baylor wherein regents planned to focus the school’s entire sexual assault scandal on athletics, ignoring the wider, decades-long problem at the university of mishandling rape reports, according to court documents filed Wednesday in an ongoing Title IX lawsuit
12:00 AM ET ALLIANCE, Ohio — On a late July day in 1999, Matt Campbell drove along U.S. Route 62, unsure of his next football destination. He knew he couldn’t go back to Pitt for another season. The football program there had turned toxic. So Campbell packed up and left. He wasn’t far from his
6:04 PM ET Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. — Former Penn State president Graham Spanier lost an appeal Tuesday of his misdemeanor conviction for child endangerment over his handling of a 2001 complaint about Jerry Sandusky showering with a boy in the football team locker room. A Superior Court majority rejected Spanier’s claims that too much
12:47 PM ET College Football Playoff executive Michael Kelly is the University of South Florida’s new athletic director, the school announced Tuesday. Kelly, who served as chief operating officer for the CFP since 2012, has extensive ties to the area. He previously served as associate athletic director for external affairs at USF under former AD
10:38 AM ET The parents of Washington State quarterback Tyler Hilinski say an autopsy performed after his January suicide showed evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in his brain. Speaking Tuesday to NBC’s “Today,” Mark and Kym Hilinski said the Mayo Clinic conducted the autopsy on Tyler, who died at 21 on Jan. 16 in Pullman,
9:15 PM ET Michigan State made a big recruiting statement on Monday when ESPN 300 offensive lineman Devontae Dobbs announced his commitment to the Spartans. Dobbs is the No. 7 ranked prospect overall and chose Michigan State over Auburn, Clemson, Florida State, Georgia, Ohio State, Oklahoma and USC among others. The 6-foot-5, 304-pound lineman out