There has been a proliferation of Oceania players emerging at the top level in recent years, but the name Isaac Fotu still remains under the radar. A 6'8" forward from New Zealand, Fotu brings an intensity and toughness typical of players from the South Pacific, but he combines this with an ever-improving skill set. After being ruled ineligible at the end of his sophomore at Hawaii by the NCAA, Fotu signed a three-year deal with Spanish club ...

Every February, after college football teams have signed their next crop of players for the upcoming season, coaches rave about how great these newcomers will be. Ambitious descriptors and catch phrases abound, with pretty much every prospect made out to be a potential Heisman winner. Much of this is hyperbole, but not all of it. With freshmen becoming more involved in their teams' plans sooner rather later, in many cases these statements are getting fact-checked right ...

TCU had a monumental 2014 season, which concluded with a 12-1 record, a No. 3 national ranking and a convincing win against Ole Miss in the Peach Bowl. The success has been parlayed into recruiting victories, as the Horned Frogs entered Friday with nine commits. On Friday evening, they picked up No. 10 in Houston C.E. King High School running back Trayveon Williams. A 4-star running back, Williams chose TCU over Texas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma and Houston. ...

The 2015 NCAA baseball tournament got underway on Friday with 32 games in 16 locations around the country featuring all 64 teams starting their journey to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. Regionals are hosted by the 16 No. 1 seeds in a double-elimination format, so one loss on Friday doesn't spell doom for the tournament. It does increase the sense of urgency a team has, but there is time to right the ship. Here's a ...

Friday's NCAA Division I Baseball Championship regional contest between Virginia and USC began with a bang.Cavaliers leadoff hitter Adam Haseley sent a deep fly ball to left field, but Bobby Stahel got on his horse and made a tremendous leaping grab on the warning track.With the dirt still hovering around him, Stahel got up and casually threw the ball back in as if his full-extension snag was routine.[SnappyTV]Read more College Baseball news on BleacherReport.com

Shortstop Caleb Hamilton belted what should’ve been a home run in the bottom of the seventh inning as his Oregon State Beavers squared off against the Texas Longhorns in an NCAA Division I Baseball Championship regional matchup Friday.Texas center fielder Zane Gurwitz had other plans.With a perfectly timed jump, Gurwitz scaled the wall and plucked Hamilton’s bomb from over the fence, saving his team a valuable run.Oregon State did prevail 5-4, however.[SnappyTV]Read more College Baseball ...

Arizona Wildcats basketball coach Sean Miller has maintained the program's status among the nation’s elite, and he will reportedly be rewarded for his efforts. Bruce Pascoe of the Arizona Daily Star noted Friday that Miller is due for an extension and a subsequent raise on his contract: This should come as no surprise considering Arizona is the two-time defending Pac-12 regular-season champion and a mainstay among the Top 10 in the polls nearly every year. Arizona earned ...

How tough was Charlie Strong's first year at Texas? There's already hot-seat chatter about Strong if 2015 is just as bad.  Of course, such talk is premature at best. Strong may be a member of the $5 million a year club, but that doesn't mean he doesn't deserve time to turn things around. "Obviously it's important for Strong to show progress in Year 2," Stewart Mandel of Fox Sports writes, "but that doesn't necessarily have to ...

Jim Harbaugh's reputation as a head coach may have been built on his ferocity, with enough handshakes gone wrong on YouTube to qualify him as arguably the most intense sideline stalker in football history. But before he was known for his mid-game—and postgame—explosions, Harbaugh was merely a quarterback whose personality was defined by his confidence, dating back to his guarantee of a Michigan win over Ohio State in 1986. Over the years, that confidence has hardly eroded, a ...

The decision wasn't much of a surprise, but when 4-star Reading, Pennsylvania, offensive lineman Michal Menet committed to Penn State on Friday afternoon, it gave head coach James Franklin a key piece to an offensive line that has every intention of being one of the best in the Big Ten sooner than later. Menet, the top-ranked player from the state of Pennsylvania, chose Penn State over Duke at a ceremony at Exeter Township High School. In addition ...