Pitt reserve fullback Derrick Burns suffered a stroke and his football career is over, his father told a local television station Wednesday. Burns' dad, Dan, told KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, "Found a mass, a blood clot in the back of his head, and a small one on the left side which caused a stroke and left his right side weak." Burns, a 20-year-old redshirt sophomore, had only played in one... [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]
Tailback Asher Clark, Air Force's second-leading all-time rusher, has been kicked out of school less than a week before graduation as a result of an investigation into illegal drug use, The Gazette of Colorado Springs has reported, citing unnamed sources. School spokesman David Cannon confirmed to the newspaper that Clark, a four-year starter for the Falcons, is no longer enrolled but would not... [Read More]
Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer and athletic director Gene Smith acknowledged having committed secondary NCAA violations in recent months, according to a report in The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer. The ancillary errors by Meyer and Smith are part of 46 secondary violations in 21 sports at Ohio State reported since last May 30. The Plain Dealer obtained the list of violations through an open... [Read More]
The Big 12 and the Southeastern conferences have announced a deal that will pit their football regular-season champions against each other in a New Year's Day bowl game for five years beginning in 2014, positioning themselves for the expected switch to a four-team playoff. In fact, SEC commissioner Mike Slive all but said that scenario is coming in Friday's announcement of the agreement between... [Read More]
A 22-year-old University of Idaho football player was fatally shot at a weekend party in Los Angeles, authorities said. Detectives were trying to determine a motive and a suspect in the early Sunday death of Ken McRoyal of Carson, who was killed while attending a photo shoot to promote a new women's clothing line, police said. A second man was wounded and treated at a hospital. "Whether he... [Read More]
Arkansas coach John L. Smith says wide receiver Kane Whitehurst has been released from his scholarship. Whitehurst redshirted last season and was listed as a third-team wide receiver on the depth chart prior to spring practice. The 6-foot, 175-pound freshman is the second Razorbacks receiver to be released this month, following Quinta Funderburk's release on May 2. Whitehurst was arrested last... [Read More]
Three Arkansas football players have been arrested for residential burglary this afternoon, according to the Washington County Detention Center website. Wide receivers Marquel Wade and Maudrecus Humphrey and tight end Andrew Peterson have been booked into the Washington County Detention Center after being arrested by the University of Arkansas Police Department. All three players have been... [Read More]
Boise State is scheduled to join the Big East Conference on July 1, 2013, but there are indications the Broncos are considering remaining in the Mountain West. An industry source told CBSSports.com that Mountain West representatives met with Boise State officials earlier this week to persuade the Broncos to remain in the MWC. Adding to that possibility is that the Broncos still haven't formally... [Read More]
It's been nearly a quarter-century since Andre Rison's swagger and speed were bundled inside a No. 1 Michigan State football uniform. Rison is returning to campus as a student assistant coach while he finishes his degree, as reported Friday by MLive.com. "I promised my mother, father and grandparents that I would go back and finish my degree one day," said Rison, who's 30 credits short.... [Read More]
North Texas will leave the Sun Belt to join Conference USA, a source close to the program said Thursday. The source also said Louisiana Tech and Florida International will be joining the Mean Green in Conference USA, along with Texas-San Antonio, whose move was approved by the University of Texas System regents Thursday morning. Charlotte also appears set to join the C-USA, scheduling a news... [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]
Notre Dame quarterback Tommy Rees has been charged with four misdemeanors after allegedly raising his knee and knocking the wind out of a police officer after an off-campus house party early Thursday. The St. Joseph County Prosecutor's Office says the 19-year-old Rees was charged with one count of battery, two counts of resisting law enforcement and one count of illegal consumption of alcohol by... [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]
Michigan safety Josh Furman, who was acquitted of three misdemeanor charges in Michigan's 15th District Court last week, has been reinstated to the football team, the school said in a release today. Furman was found not guilty of domestic violence, assault and illegal entry charges Thursday in front of judge Elizabeth Pollard Hines. "After allowing the judicial process to run its course and... [Read More]
Nebraska boasts arguably the Big Ten's deepest running back corps, but the group just got a bit thinner. Sophomore Aaron Green has decided to transfer, his father told multiple media outlets Sunday night. Green, a San Antonio native, likely will move closer to home and select a Big 12 program. Oklahoma and TCU are among his potential transfer destinations, according to his father, Tony. "He... [Read More]
The NCAA has ruled that South Carolina failed to monitor its athletic program and has accepted the school's proposed sanctions to cut six football scholarships the next three years and slash its official recruiting visits by more than half. There were no forfeiture of games or bowl ban attached the penalties which stemmed from athletes receiving $59,000 in impermissible benefits. The NCAA said... [Read More]
Whatever you call it, wherever you play it, for college football officials, the "p" word is no longer taboo. A four-team playoff is likely coming to the sport. "It's a seismic change for college football — if it happens," Bowl Championship Series executive director Bill Hancock said as the latest round of BCS meetings ended Thursday. The conference commissioners will present... [Read More]
A person familiar with the decision says Arkansas is bringing back John L. Smith on an interim basis next year to replace Bobby Petrino. Smith, an assistant who left the Razorbacks after last season to become the head coach at Weber State, is returning on a one-year appointment, according to the person who spoke Monday on condition of anonymity because the school had not made its decision public.... [Read More]
Alabama wide receiver DeAndrew White was one of two victims hospitalized overnight after sustaining an apparent concussion during an early Thursday altercation on The Strip, a source close to the situation confirmed to the Tuscaloosa Bureau. White, a redshirt sophomore, is not seriously injured, the source said. University police apprehended Ryan Javaris Hamilton, 22, and Quamayne Rakesh Tolbert,... [Read More]
