Clemson and coach Dabo Swinney are close to announcing a new six-year deal, a source told ESPN's Joe Schad on Friday.Swinney was expected to make $1.9 million in 2012, which would have ranked 46th nationally, according to data provided to ESPN.com earlier this year by athletic director Terry Don Phillips.Clemson installed Swinney as head coach in December 2008 with a five-year contract.His hiring... [Read More]
Miami is reaffirming its commitment to the Atlantic Coast Conference, debunking speculation that the Hurricanes may be considering a jump to the Big 12 or elsewhere.Hurricanes athletic director Shawn Eichorst released a statement Friday saying, among other things, that Miami has "not engaged in any formal or informal discussions with any other conferences" and that the school continues... [Read More]
North Carolina State head football coach Tom O'Brien says safeties Donald Coleman and Dean Haynes are transferring. School officials, who announced the players' decisions Friday, said Coleman has graduated and will be eligible to play for his new school immediately. Haynes will be a redshirt junior this fall. He arrived in 2009 as a defensive back and began the 2010 season as the starter at... [Read More]
Clemson star receiver Sammy Watkins was one of two Tiger athletes arrested early Friday on drug-related charges.Watkins, 18, was charged with possession of a controlled substance and simple possession of marijuana, both misdemeanors. Men's soccer player Amadou-Tidiane Daniel Dia, 18, was charged with simple possession of marijuana.The two were arrested after police stopped the car Watkins was... [Read More]
The career of Montel Harris at Boston College has come to a stunning end. "Montel Harris has been permanently dismissed from our football team due to a repeated violation of team rules," Boston College coach Frank Spaziani said in a statement. "We are grateful for his contributions the past four seasons and will support him in completing his degree requirements and in his future... [Read More]
Maryland freshman linebacker Lukas Foreman has been suspended from the football team for one year due to a violation of the school's code of conduct, athletics department officials announced Wednesday. Foreman, from Naples, Fla., will serve the one-year suspension from the program beginning immediately. "Being a University of Maryland student-athlete carries a tremendous honor and... [Read More]
Clemson running back Andre Ellington had minor ankle surgery Thursday and will not play in Clemson's spring game on Saturday, the school announced Thursday. The second-team All-ACC back should be 100 percent for summer workouts. The surgery, which had been planned, was to clean up scar tissue on an ankle injury suffered during the 2011 season. The senior rushed for 1,178 yards to lead the Tigers.... [Read More]
Georgia Tech linebacker Julian Burnett, the Yellow Jackets' leading tackler in each of the last two seasons, is likely to miss the 2012 season with a neck injury, which might end up ending his football career."He's probably not going to play," Yellow Jackets coach Paul Johnson told reporters after his team's first practice of the spring on Monday. "I'm sure it's really tough on... [Read More]
A Boston College football player has been charged with secretly making an audio recording of two students having sex.Backup defensive lineman Jaryd Rudolph was released on his own recognizance Wednesday after pleading not guilty to violating the state's wiretap statute.Attorney Mitchell Garabedian, who represents a female Boston College graduate student, said neither his client nor her partner --... [Read More]
Ray Lewis III committed to the Miami Hurricanes Tuesday, almost 19 years after his father suited up for the program.The 5-foot-9, 190-pound junior from Lake Mary Prep (Lake Mary, Fla.) confirmed the commitment with his coach, Buck Gurley.Ray Lewis III, the fifth member of the 2013 Hurricanes recruiting class, could play running back or defensive back for Miami.
"Ray told me that he... [Read More]
The NCAA has placed North Carolina's football program on three years' probation and banned it from the 2012 postseason, the governing body announced Monday.The school already had imposed several penalties, including vacating all 16 wins for 2008 and 2009, reducing nine scholarships over the next three academic years and putting the program on two years of probation.But the NCAA didn't stop at... [Read More]
Former Georgia tight end Orson Charles was arrested for drunken driving early Friday morning, police said.Charles, a 2011 AFCA All-American rated by ESPN Scouts Inc. as the 38th-best prospect overall and No. 2 prospect at tight end in this year's NFL draft, was charged with driving under the influence and impeding traffic flow by Athens-Clarke County Police after being stopped at approximately 3... [Read More]
North Carolina State Wolfpack linebacker D.J. Green says the NCAA has suspended him for the season after he tested positive for using a banned substance that he did not identify.Green apologized in a statement. He says he was trying to gain weight during the offseason and took a supplement given to him by someone from his hometown in Macon, Ga.He says he "wasn't responsible enough to check... [Read More]
Authorities say Florida State tailback James Wilder Jr. was arrested after a confrontation with deputies.Florida's Leon County Sheriff's Office reports the 19-year-old was at a Tallahassee apartment Tuesday when deputies went to arrest a 20-year-old woman for missing a court appearance. As a deputy escorted the woman to a patrol car, a sheriff's report says, Wilder stepped between the deputy and... [Read More]
Boston College is just four days into spring workouts, but the program has already had its first casualty.Eagles all-time leading rusher Montel Harris aggravated the left knee injury that cost him most of the 2011 season and will not participate in the remainder of spring practice, coach Frank Spaziani announced Tuesday.Harris took part in the first day's workouts and complained of soreness... [Read More]
Stefon Diggs took extra time and all of his official visits to determine there's no place like home.The four-star athlete from Olney (Md.) Good Counsel committed to Maryland on Friday evening just down the road from the Terrapins' campus in College Park. He chose the Terps over Florida, Auburn and Ohio State.It was an incredible coup for Maryland, which landed one of the highest-rated prospects... [Read More]
The Atlantic Coast Conference will play a nine-game schedule in football and every team will compete in the ACC basketball tournaments once Syracuse and Pittsburgh join the league.The league announced Friday how it will incorporate the schools once they leave the Big East Conference. ACC commissioner John Swofford said Friday it's still unclear when that will happen since Big East bylaws require... [Read More]
Georgia Tech offensive line coach Todd Spencer has resigned after he violated NCAA recruiting rules by sending text messages to recruits, the school announced Wednesday.The NCAA prohibits all electronic correspondence to recruits with the exception of faxes and emails.The violation was discovered by an internal investigation within the athletic department, and coach Paul Johnson recommended to... [Read More]
Florida State's coaching staff celebrated its assembly of another formidable recruiting class, and top-rated wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham committed to playing in his home state of Missouri in the early hours of national signing day Wednesday.The Seminoles, considered by ESPNU recruiting analysts as having the third-best class at the start of the day, were bumped to No. 2 on the board, past... [Read More]
Former Houston defensive coordinator Brian Stewart has been hired as Maryland's defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach, the school announced Tuesday.Last Friday, Maryland announced that former coordinator Todd Bradford would not return for the 2012 season. Maryland has now replaced both of its coordinators following last year's 2-10 finish in coach Randy Edsall's first season.Stewart... [Read More]
