6:02 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — New UNLV coach Marcus Arroyo has hired former Baylor assistant Glenn Thomas as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. “We are absolutely fired up about adding a coach with Glenn’s level of talent, pedigree and experience to the Rebel family,” Arroyo said in a statement Thursday. “He has
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3:38 PM ET Associated Press Minnesota football coach P.J. Fleck is taking an unpaid week, joining about 200 other leaders in the university system to do so in response to the budget crunch caused by the coronavirus pandemic. President Joan Gabel announced the furloughs earlier this month. Fleck confirmed Thursday on a video conference call
2:35 PM ET Colorado is the latest Division I athletics program to announce voluntary reduced pay for its athletic director and coaches in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the university announced Thursday. The Buffaloes announced that athletic director Rick George, new football coach Karl Dorrell, men’s basketball coach Tad Boyle and women’s basketball coach
1:32 PM ET LSU landed ESPN Junior 300 wide receiver JoJo Earle on Thursday, adding the No. 68 ranked recruit to its class. Earle is a 5-foot-9, 170-pound receiver from Aledo High School in Aledo, Texas, who chose the Tigers over Texas, TCU, Oklahoma and Georgia among others. He is on the smaller side, but
6:40 AM ET Mulitple Contributors Imagine the Iron Bowl … in May. Or, something even more inconceivable … no Iron Bowl at all. With the coronavirus pandemic affecting sports calendars worldwide, conference commissioners and athletic directors across the United States are considering every alternative to college football’s current Aug. 29 start date, including playing the
1:01 PM ET Syracuse athletic director John Wildhack says the ACC has had no conversations about canceling the 2020 football season amid the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking on a Zoom teleconference about the state of his athletic department and the fate of the fall sports schedule, Wildhack said Thursday that the consensus is “We want to
8:00 AM ET Anthony Treash We continue our dive into the top 10 college football players returning at every position. This week, we turn our attention to perhaps the most valuable position on the defensive side of the ball: cornerback. Using a combination of Pro Football Focus grades and PFF’s wins above average (WAA) metric,
6:57 AM ET University of Arizona president Dr. Robert Robbins said Wednesday that he does not anticipate the Wildcats playing football this fall, even though the university plans to bring students and faculty back to campus for face-to-face instruction during the fall semester. In an interview with KVOI-AM in Tucson, Arizona, Robbins said he is
7:23 PM ET As the coronavirus crisis forces all sports leagues to re-evaluate how they can once again host thousands of fans at stadiums across the country, at least one prominent data scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology says there are steps teams can take that will make arenas “as safe as public parks.”
6:24 PM ET Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — Jim Jones, a former academic assistant to football coaching great Woody Hayes who went on to serve as Ohio State athletic director in the 1980s and ’90s, has died. He was 83. Jones died Wednesday in Bonita Springs, Florida, of natural causes, the university said. Jones started