8:50 PM ET Associated Press Widespread testing for the coronavirus will be crucial to having college sports in the fall, especially contact sports such as football and basketball, the NCAA’s chief medical officer said Friday. Dr. Brian Hainline expressed cautious optimism that college sports could be played during the fall semester, as long as leaders
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4:20 PM ET Tennessee quarterback Brian Maurer, hoping to bring awareness to the importance of mental health, on Friday detailed in an Instagram post that he was planning to kill himself on Jan. 22 before receiving a phone call from his mother that day. “I thought I lost my battle with depression and my pain
7:45 AM ET It had to be LSU that landed the final blow. You knew the battle was almost over when Nick Saban’s Alabama changed its stripes, opened up its offense and kept winning. When the Los Angeles Rams nearly won the Super Bowl with a quarterback from an Air Raid offense, then the Kansas
2:40 PM ET Associated Press U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wants baseball and football to get on the field, and he says big league opening day could take place around the start of July. “I think there will be a college football season. They may have nobody in the stands or reduced attendance, but
2:39 PM ET Former Mississippi State quarterback Keytaon Thompson is joining Virginia as a graduate transfer. Thompson, who entered the NCAA transfer portal last month, announced his destination Friday on Twitter, writing that he will have two years of eligibility at Virginia and pursue his master’s degree there. 🔶⚔️🔷😏 pic.twitter.com/JgPcP8MHlc — KT 🏧🤙🏽 (@Thompson_Kt5) May
7:50 AM ET Though we are trained from birth to believe otherwise, college football does not need to occur in autumn. This is good news, since we now know there’s a distinct possibility that the 2020 college football season will finish well into 2021. It may not even start until then. If the coronavirus pandemic
9:35 PM ET Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby said Thursday that he’s optimistic about college football starting on time or close to it, but is skeptical of being able to go through the entire season without disruption because of the coronavirus pandemic. Bowlsby, in a 28-minute interview on SiriusXM Big 12 radio, discussed his concerns,
6:34 PM ET University of Iowa president Bruce Harreld anticipates that the school’s football team will resume activities after June 1, he told the state board of regents Thursday. Harreld referred to the Big Ten Conference’s suspension of team activities in all sports during a virtual meeting with the regents. The Big Ten in late
4:00 PM ET Tennessee Volunteers has been on a roll the past week in recruiting and kept the momentum alive Thursday when the Vols landed five-star linebacker Terrence Lewis. The No. 11 ranked recruit overall, Lewis chose Tennessee over Texas A&M, Nebraska, Alabama and plenty of other top programs. Lewis is a 6-foot-1, 200-pound linebacker
4:48 PM ET SEC commissioner Greg Sankey hopes there will be unity among the FBS conferences when it comes time to resume college football activities, but he cautioned that it’s not a necessity that everyone move forward as one. Appearing on Jacksonville radio station 1010 XL on Thursday morning, Sankey said that unlike pro leagues,