In the end, sanity prevailed. Instead of instating the outright ban on satellite camps that was approved by the NCAA's Division I Council earlier this month—which would have prevented college coaches from guest-coaching at the other schools' camps—the NCAA's Division I board of directors directed the council to conduct a broad assessment of the FBS recruiting environment. Board of directors chair and University of South Carolina president Harris Pastides commented on the news in a release from the NCAA: The ...

Spring practice stars can be fool's gold in college football. Every year, countless reserve players rise up in public scrimmages and put on MVP-caliber performances—only to be never heard from again when the competitive action starts in the fall. But there's plenty of real nuggets of improvement still to be found in spring practices, from the young starter looking to take the next step to the rising star looking to take control of a starting job ...

One of the few certainties in college basketball is that some teams and some players will demonstrate surprising improvement from the previous year. It is what makes college hoops appealing and unpredictable. Those unexpected accomplishments are easy to laud after the fact, but difficult to predict six months in advance. Which players will emerge from anonymity to become stars? Who are the dark horses for player of the year honors in the nine major conferences? The question ...

Us sports fans love to get carried away with our allegiances, and we essentially think of college football players and coaches as men who are changing the universe. In honor of national superhero day (April 28), we've assembled a list comparing superstars from the field to some memorable comic-book heroes. Physical and mental traits were primary factors in determining the matches. You won't see these guys saving the word as their respective character does in movies, but ...

The dreams of many will come true this weekend, when football players from around the country will receive phone calls from professional football organizations and offers to play the sport they love for a living. Many of them have been starring in the SEC for years. The first round of the NFL draft will be littered with former stars from the nation's deepest football conference, including former Ole Miss stars Laquon Treadwell, Robert Nkemdiche, Laremy Tunsil; Alabama's ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Urban Meyer squirmed, the mere mention of all of Ohio State's outgoing talent giving him an apparent rush of anxiety. So when the Buckeyes head coach went ahead and answered a question about how his team's plentiful presence at Thursday's NFL draft would benefit his program, perhaps it shouldn't have come as a surprise that his mind immediately shifted to his own task at hand. "How valuable for us?" Meyer asked, repeating the question. "There's ...

When evaluating college basketball teams and their chances of contending for a national title, there tends to be a standard formula: Combine returning stars with top newcomers, making sure to factor in the key players who have moved on, and you'll know where things stand. But just as important to the equation are the other returning players—those who either didn't get much of an opportunity to contribute last season or struggled when given the chance. Their ...

Hawaii Rainbow Warriors defensive lineman Kennedy Tulimasealii—who was already suspended from the team for a prior incident—was reportedly arrested on Monday night. According to Manolo Morales of KHON2-TV in Honolulu, Tulimasealii was arrested and charged with criminal property damage on Monday. Morales also noted Tulimasealii “was arrested two weeks ago following an altercation with his ex-girlfriend.” Tulimasealii was suspended from the team because of that first arrest. The criminal property incident actually occurred in March before his original ...

The April live evaluation period is now behind us and it means that schools from coast-to-coast are re-evaluating their recruiting boards as they've found new targets. Some players have simply stepped up and played better than expected while others are just being seen on the national stage for the first time.  With most players having played around six to eight games in front of college coaches, there is now a decent sample size to see which players ...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Did you know that the first draft pick to ever play in the National Football League was from the University of Alabama? Riley Smith was a fullback on the 1933 team but switched to quarterback the following season when head coach Frank Thomas’ team went 10-0 and handily defeated Stanford in the Rose Bowl, 29-13, to claim the national championship. He was listed as being 6’1”, 195 pounds, and to give an idea of ...