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On a balmy Saturday in South Florida, fans were filing into the Orange Bowl to watch their Miami Hurricanes play another underdog opponent. It would be nearly a week before they would realize they had witnessed one of the most unusual games in college football history. Besides talking about the game, there was plenty of
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Associated Press Feb 17, 2025, 08:21 PM ET Open Extended Reactions GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida hired Ryan Theis as its women’s volleyball coach Monday, bringing him back nearly 20 years after he served as an assistant on Mary Wise’s staff. Wise, 65, retired earlier this month after 34 years and 987 wins with the Gators.
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Associated Press Feb 15, 2025, 12:29 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Former Notre Dame defensive coordinator Al Golden has been named the Broyles Award winner as the nation’s top assistant coach. Golden helped Notre Dame reach the national championship game last month before he was hired as the Cincinnati Bengals‘ defensive
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Associated Press Feb 15, 2025, 10:10 AM ET LINCOLN, Neb. — Greg Sharpe, the play-by-play voice for Nebraska football since 2007, has died of cancer, his family announced through the school Saturday. He was 61. Sharpe died Friday, 10 months after he announced he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He was able to work
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Associated Press Feb 14, 2025, 12:26 PM ET Open Extended Reactions STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Penn State women’s volleyball coach Katie Schumacher-Cawley has agreed to a contract extension through the 2030 season, reaching the deal two months after leading the Nittany Lions to the national championship and days after completing cancer treatments, the school announced
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Feb 14, 2025, 06:52 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Notre Dame is finalizing a deal to hire Detroit Lions director of scouting advancement Mike Martin as the school’s new general manager, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Martin was part of Detroit’s initial front office staff that helped rebuild the Lions’ roster. Notre Dame head
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Associated Press Feb 13, 2025, 10:08 PM ET Open Extended Reactions KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Alberto Osuna’s bid to play baseball for defending College World Series champion Tennessee hit a roadblock Thursday as a federal judge denied his bid for a temporary restraining order making him eligible for the start of the season. U.S. District Judge
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Associated Press Feb 13, 2025, 05:49 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LOS ANGELES — Six former East Mississippi Community College football players who appeared in the documentary series “Last Chance U” have sued the school, Netflix, the National Junior College Athletic Association and the program’s director over their portrayals. John Franklin III, Ronald Ollie, C.J.
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Eli LedermanFeb 13, 2025, 05:00 PM ET Close Eli Lederman covers college football and recruiting for ESPN.com. He joined ESPN in 2024 after covering the University of Oklahoma for Sellout Crowd and the Tulsa World. Open Extended Reactions LSU secured its highest-ranked pledge in the 2026 recruiting cycle Thursday with a commitment from four-star in-state
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D’Arcy Maine Feb 13, 2025, 10:10 AM ET Open Extended Reactions THE UNDEFEATED OKLAHOMA Sooners arrived in Fort Worth, Texas, last April as the clear favorite to win the national championship. They were the two-time defending champions, had been the top-ranked team in the nation all season and were fresh off their latest conference title.
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Erika LeFlouria Feb 13, 2025, 07:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The opening weekend of the 2025 college softball season brought upsets, eye-popping plays and impressive performances by several newcomers. All of that action and more is expected to continue in the 2025 Shriners Children’s Clearwater Invitational Presented by EvoShield. This weekend’s slate will feature
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Associated Press Feb 12, 2025, 02:02 PM ET LAS VEGAS — UNLV senior offensive lineman Ben Christman, who transferred after last season from Kentucky, has died, the university announced. He was 21. Christman was found dead in an off-campus apartment Tuesday morning. The university said it didn’t have other details and that a cause of
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Associated Press Feb 12, 2025, 03:25 PM ET Open Extended Reactions COLUMBUS, Ohio — Former Ohio State Buckeyes football coach Jim Tressel was confirmed Wednesday as Ohio’s next lieutenant governor. State senators and representatives affirmed Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s Monday nomination of Tressel in separate floor votes Wednesday: 31-1 in the Senate, 68-27 in the
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Jake TrotterFeb 12, 2025, 04:56 PM ET Close Jake Trotter is a senior writer at ESPN. Trotter covers college football. He also writes about other college sports, including men’s and women’s basketball. Trotter resides in the Cleveland area with his wife and three kids and is a fan of his hometown Oklahoma City Thunder. He
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Associated Press Feb 12, 2025, 06:18 PM ET Open Extended Reactions INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics has recommended that Divisions I, II and III sponsor legislation to add flag football to the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program. The committee’s recommendation Wednesday gives all three divisions an opportunity to sponsor legislation that
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Associated Press Feb 12, 2025, 03:31 PM ET Open Extended Reactions KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Former junior college baseball player Alberto Osuna is going to federal court as he attempts to become eligible to play for defending national champion Tennessee this season. Osuna played the 2021 season at Walters State Community College before transferring to North
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Paula LavigneFeb 12, 2025, 12:42 PM ET Close Data analyst and reporter for ESPN’s Enterprise and Investigative Unit. Winner, 2014 Alfred I. duPont Columbia University Award; finalist, 2012 IRE broadcast award; winner, 2011 Gannett Foundation Award for Innovation in Watchdog Journalism; Emmy nominated, 2009. Title IX does not apply to name, image and likeness (NIL)
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Associated Press Feb 11, 2025, 07:26 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PROVO, Utah — BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe is retiring at the end of the 2024-25 sports season after more than 20 years at the school. Holmoe helped BYU join the Big 12 Conference in 2023 after a decade as an FBS independent. He
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Open Extended Reactions The University at Buffalo is rewarding coach Pete Lembo in the wake of his 9-4 debut season as coach of the Bulls. Lembo receives an additional year on his contract through the 2029 season, the school announced. Buffalo also gave Lembo a raise, sources tell ESPN. The deal includes a significant increase
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Feb 11, 2025, 12:10 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Cole Hutson was one of four Boston University goal scorers, netting the game winner in the second period of the Terriers’ 4-1 victory over rival Band top-ranked Boston College in the final of the annual Beanpot college hockey tournament Monday night in TD Garden. Brandon Svoboda,
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