Aug 28, 2023, 11:04 AM ET A new study has diagnosed the degenerative brain disease Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) in more than 40 percent of youth, high school and college athletes – primarily football players – who were exposed to repetitive head impacts from contact sports and died before age 30. The study was conducted
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Alex Scarborough, ESPN Staff WriterAug 28, 2023, 07:15 AM ET Close Covers the SEC. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of Auburn University. A REPORTER’S QUESTION about physicality reminded Alabama football coach Nick Saban of a conversation he had earlier in the week with former All-Star and World Series champion Pete Rose. Saban said Rose once
Aug 27, 2023, 10:35 AM ET Arizona State is expected to self-impose a bowl ban for the 2023 season over violations committed under former coach Herm Edwards, sources told ESPN’s Pete Thamel on Sunday. The NCAA has been investigating Arizona State since June 2021, looking into allegations that former defensive coordinator Antonio Pierce, who also
Dave Wilson, ESPN Staff WriterAug 27, 2023, 08:00 AM ET Close Dave Wilson is an editor for ESPN.com since 2010. He previously worked at The Dallas Morning News, San Diego Union-Tribune and Las Vegas Sun. The college football offseason is the best of times: Coaches love to tell you they’re all undefeated, the new recruits
Paolo Uggetti, ESPNAug 27, 2023, 02:07 AM ET LOS ANGELES — For about one half of football, the 2023 version of USC looked like a lot like the 2022 version. In its season opener against San Jose State on Saturday night, the No. 6-ranked Trojans scored plenty of points but also struggled at times to
ESPN News Services Aug 26, 2023, 11:41 PM ET LAS CRUCES, N.M. — Taisun Phommachanh passed for 192 yards and added a rushing touchdown, Kay’Ron Lynch-Adams scored two fourth-quarter touchdowns, and UMass defeated New Mexico State 41-30 in a season opener on Saturday night, snapping a 24-game road losing streak. The Minutemen, who last won
Blake Baumgartner, ESPN Staff WriterAug 26, 2023, 09:00 PM ET Five-star defensive tackle David Stone Jr., No. 6 overall in the 2024 ESPN 300, committed to Oklahoma on Saturday, providing second-year coach Brent Venables a crucial victory on the recruiting front. Originally from Oklahoma City, Stone, who plays at IMG Academy in Florida and is
Associated Press Aug 26, 2023, 06:17 PM ET DUBLIN — Sam Hartman threw for four touchdowns in his Notre Dame debut and the No. 13 Fighting Irish routed Navy 42-3 on Saturday in a season-opening victory in Ireland’s capital. Notre Dame (1-0) scored at will by air and on the ground against the Midshipmen (0-1),
Blake Baumgartner, ESPN Staff WriterAug 26, 2023, 01:46 PM ET Mario Cristobal knows full well that keeping in-state players home will be key to bringing Miami back to the national prominence it enjoyed in the 1980s, early ’90s and early 2000s. Cristobal’s Hurricanes scored a significant in-state recruiting victory Saturday courtesy of four-star safety Zaquan
Bill Connelly, ESPN Staff WriterAug 26, 2023, 08:00 AM ET Close Bill Connelly is a staff writer for ESPN.com. On Sept. 2, 1989, Cleveland football powerhouse St. Ignatius pummeled Euclid 55-26. It was locally noteworthy because Ignatius and Euclid were two of the region’s best teams — Euclid would go 0-4 against St. Ignatius but