One of the pleasures of college basketball is the opportunity to watch great athletes come into their prime. The best Division I stars pack a combination of speed, strength, quickness and leaping ability that can stack up against top players from any sport in the world. One such standout who’s going to be firmly in the national championship discussion next season is Willie Cauley-Stein. The fleet-footed big man has already treated Kentucky fans to two seasons’ ...

USC made a big recruiting splash on Saturday, as 4-star linebacker prospect Daelin Hayes of West Bloomfield, Michigan, verbally committed to play for the Trojans. Hayes announced his commitment to play football in Southern California via Twitter: The 6'3", 225-pound linebacker was exuberant in his praise of the vaunted football institution, committing just two days after his lone unofficial visit to the campus. "Everything from start to finish was hands down amazing," Hayes told Steve Wiltfong of 247Sports.com. ...

The Oklahoma Sooners have a tough conference in the Big 12 over the next few seasons, but it looks like they'll have a future kicker with an extremely strong leg.Oklahoma commit Austin Seibert looks like he's ready to kick at the college level, hitting a 66-yard field goal in the video above. If that's the kind of range he has, the Sooners could have a solid option at kicker when Seibert joins Oklahoma.[YouTube]Read more College ...

After being a potential top-10 draft pick at the end of last year, Oregon Ducks quarterback Marcus Mariota is looking to be the first quarterback taken in next year's draft, and since he's already graduated from Oregon, he has a pretty light schedule this fall. According to ESPN's Ted Miller, Mariota will be taking just two classes this fall, with those two classes being yoga and golf. Mariota put up 40 total touchdowns in 2013, but he'll ...

Tom Izzo’s accomplishments at Michigan State since taking over the program from Jud Heathcote prior to the start of the 1995-96 season are well known. In his time at the helm, Izzo has racked up seven Big Ten titles, four Big Ten Tournament titles, six Final Four appearances, eight Elite Eight trips and the 2000 national championship in the midst of transforming Michigan State into a national brand. But as he would be the first to tell ...

Florida football enters the 2014 season at a crossroads, in desperate need of an offensive overhaul that, with the arrival of Kurt Roper, is seemingly already on its way. Coach Will Muschamp enters this season firmly planted on the hottest seat in the SEC in large part because of an abysmal offense that floundered without starting quarterback Jeff Driskel and other key parts in 2013. Credit Muschamp for taking the necessary first step in dramatically improving his ...

Brady Hoke hasn't seen many of his recruits lead the way for his Michigan program.  However, that doesn't mean the coach's selections won't become prime contributors to the Wolverines this fall. Development, of course, can be a lengthy process. Simply put, players aren't progressing quickly enough.  Hoke's entering his fourth year in Ann Arbor and has yet to groom a superstar of his own. He's treading water with the upperclassmen he inherited from Rich Rodriguez, and the ...

Joe Mixon's Oklahoma career is getting off to an ignominious start. RJ Young of SoonerScoop.com reported that the 5-star running back was allegedly involved in an altercation early Friday morning at Pickleman's Gourmet Cafe in Norman with a female: Sources indicated Mixon was not arrested at the scene as officers wanted to study security footage of the incident before filing any charges. Police did receive footage of the incident today. The incident report obtained by SoonerScoop contains limited ...

Michigan State head football coach Mark Dantonio’s message to his 2013 team was simple and to the point. “You will be the ones,” Dantonio told those remaining from 2012’s 7-6 outfit at their team banquet following Michigan State’s 17-16 victory over TCU in the 2012 Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl. Selected by many to not even win the Legends Division in its final year of existence, as the Big Ten has gone to East and West Divisions with ...

Recently, the sports biopic 42 was seen on premium cable, but Pitt's offensive linemen were too busy watching a horror film—let's just call it "43." That's the number of sacks that mostly makeshift unit allowed in 2013, which put the Panthers at No. 118 out of 123 FBS teams in said category. As offensive coordinator at Wisconsin 2005-11, Paul Chryst had a knack for building potent attacks behind remarkably sturdy offensive lines. He has acknowledged the evolution of the collegiate ...