2:54 PM ET Southeastern Conference athletes who choose not to play fall sports because of health and safety concerns surrounding COVID-19 will have their scholarships honored, the league announced Friday. SEC presidents and chancellors unanimously approved the decision, which had been recommended by the league’s athletic directors. The Big Ten and Pac-12 both previously announced
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1:56 PM ET Associated Press Colonial Athletic Association football became the latest domino to tumble in college football, announcing on Friday it will not have a conference schedule this fall because of concerns over the global coronavirus pandemic. The 12 members of the conference, however, are allowed to pursue independent schedules. The latter scenario is
1:18 PM ET Gerry Hamilton Close ESPN Staff Writer National recruiting analyst More than a decade covering recruiting, nationally and in Texas Tom VanHaaren Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN staff writer Joined ESPN in 2011 Graduated from Central Michigan Alabama added two top-100 commitments to its 2021 class Friday when five-star offensive tackle Tommy Brockermeyer
8:53 AM ET Tennessee defensive lineman Emmit Gooden, who was featured on the Netflix series “Last Chance U,” has been dismissed from the team following his arrest Thursday on a felony charge of aggravated domestic assault. According to an arrest warrant, police have accused Gooden, 22, of hitting his girlfriend with a glass jar candle
7:30 AM ET ESPN staff NEARLY HALF OF major college football and men’s basketball coaches have taken voluntary pay cuts in response to the financial crisis facing higher education because of the coronavirus pandemic, but most of the highest-paid coaches have not, an ESPN survey found. Eight of the 10 top-paid football coaches and at
11:53 PM ET Michigan defensive end David Ojabo has been stuck in his home country of Scotland since March, unable to travel back to the United States. Ojabo had flown to Aberdeen, Scotland, before the COVID-19 outbreak, thinking he would be home for only a few weeks. As the virus spread and was designated a
3:53 PM ET The NCAA Sport Science Institute on Thursday released extended guidelines to help schools continue to navigate a return to fall sports in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, including testing and results within 72 hours of competition in “high contact risk sports,” but NCAA president Mark Emmert conceded the virus is trending
12:43 PM ET The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference has suspended all fall sports indefinitely because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic but hasn’t determined whether the fall schedules will be moved to the 2021 spring semester, the league announced on Thursday. The MEAC currently plans to proceed with winter sports competition as scheduled, unless health and medical
10:33 AM ET The American Athletic Conference will require mandatory testing for all football teams at least 72 hours before each game, the league announced Thursday. Commissioner Mike Aresco said in a statement the league is “committed to meeting or exceeding all guidelines and standards recommended by the NCAA and its member institutions in all
10:24 AM ET A congressional committee will examine ways to protect the integrity of college athletics in a hearing scheduled for Wednesday. The hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee will focus on interest in federal legislation addressing intellectual property rights and revenue associated with the marketing of name, image and likeness (NIL) of college athletes.