Fresh off a pair of 10-win seasons, head coach Jim Mora and the UCLA Bruins head into their 2015 Spring Showcase in search of a new starting quarterback. With Brett Hundley headed for the NFL, a high-profile recruiting class, including quarterback Josh Rosen, takes center stage as the Bruins transition to a new era. As UCLA looks ahead to next season in the hopes of competing for a conference title, the defense will also break in a ...

Stop me if you've heard this before, but there will be plenty of new adjustments for the 2015-16 version of Kentucky basketball compared to the most recent Final Four team. That's what happens when seven of your top 10 players declare for the NBA draft. This isn't anything new in Lexington, though, and luckily for Big Blue Nation, they still have the best coach when it comes to roster turnover in John Calipari. His success has ...

Missouri Tigers football coach Gary Pinkel received a new contract Friday after leading his team to two straight SEC East Division championships. Joe Walljasper and David Morrison of the Columbia Daily Tribune provided some details: Pinkel came to Missouri before the 2001 season and has gone 113-66 since then, failing to make a bowl in just four of his 14 seasons. Perhaps the most impressive part of Pinkel’s tenure has been the smooth transition from the Big 12 ...

A busy week for the Ohio State Buckeyes that involved their annual spring game and a trip to the White House to celebrate their national championship came to an end with manual labor for some members of the football team.Since Urban Meyer took over as coach, the losers of the spring game have been required to put down mulch in Buckeye Grove, Ohio State's tribute to its All-Americans. This year, the Gray pulled out a 17-14 victory over ...

Tennessee Volunteers wide receiver Von Pearson was identified and named as a suspect in an ongoing rape investigation Friday. Dustin Dopirak of the Knoxville News Sentinel noted the developments and passed along some updates from a report from the Knoxville Police Department: A story from the Knoxville News Sentinel provided more details and pointed out that investigators “took statements from the victim, several witnesses...and alerted the Sexual Assault Center.” The story also makes a point that the investigation ...

The defending national champions, Ohio State, will be a cornerstone of the Big Ten's prime-time coverage on ESPN in 2015. The conference's other biggest blue-blood program, Michigan, is hardly found on the prime-time schedule, however.  The conference announced seven games would be viewed in prime time on ESPN this year, the dates and times of which can be viewed below, per Kevin McGuire at CollegeFootballTalk.com:  September 3 (Thursday): Minnesota vs. TCU, 9 p.m., ESPN September 12: Michigan State vs. Oregon, ...

Eric Paschall, Fordham's leading scorer in 2014-15 and the reigning Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Year, announced Thursday via Twitter that he's transferring to Villanova. I have officially committed to Villanova University!!!!! #NovaNation ⚪️🔵⚪️🔵 — Eric Paschall (@Epaschall4) April 23, 2015 Paschall will have to sit out a year per NCAA rules but will have three years of eligibility left beginning in the 2016-17 season. Last month, Paschall took to Twitter to announce he would at least consider transferring to another ...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — There was much more to draw from Alabama’s A-Day scrimmage than just the quarterback. One big-picture takeaway was this: The Crimson Tide’s defense is well ahead of the offense. Yes, while the White team—which was made up of the first-team offense—did come away with the win over the Crimson team, from top to bottom, Alabama’s defense is much deeper and more polished than its offense. While the offense gained 301 yards on the day, it ...

Editor's Note: The Fifth Down captures the top social college football stories of the week. Because the long, grueling offseason is underway, we'll focus on things that make us laugh, think or maybe cry, but mostly laugh.    1. Let's Critique Nick Saban's Acting, Shall We? As someone who did theatre back in high school—you can tell how serious I was about it, too, because I spelled it "theatre" and not "theater"—I feel I'm more than qualified to ...

Nearly two years after a five-part Sports Illustrated investigative report revealed a number of infractions within the Oklahoma State University football program, the NCAA imposed sanctions against the school Friday.   According to Emily James of NCAA.org, the Division I Committee on Infractions panel disciplined Oklahoma State, while the school self-imposed some punishments as well. Per Pete Thamel of Sports Illustrated, the sanctions include probation for one year, a limit on official recruiting visits over the next two years and ...