The NCAA may have created a formidable foe when it outlawed satellite camps on April 8. According to USA Today's Paul Myerberg, the United States Department of Justice has opened an informal inquiry into the practice and the NCAA's decision to ban the events. The purpose of the inquiry is reportedly to look into whether the ban hurts high school athletes who are looking to increase their profile among college head coaches. USA Today's Dan Wolken is already ...

Getting a clear read on a spring game is difficult. Different teams do different things in how they separate the talent, how they score the game and how they maintain the clock. Several just ditch the idea of a traditional scrimmage and go for a public practice. Spring game season is almost completely finished in the world of college football, meaning fans and analysts everywhere won't get to see on-field action for quite some time. This ...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Like for everyone else who could be selected in the NFL draft this week, it’s been a whirlwind few months for former University of Alabama center Ryan Kelly. After declining to participate in the Senior Bowl, Kelly underwent a whole different kind of training to improve the individual skills that would be measured and tested. There was the NFL Scouting Combine and Alabama’s pro day, in addition to private workouts scheduled by various ...

There are more than 100 college basketball programs that would love to compete in the NCAA tournament for the first time in more than a decade, and teams like Monmouth, South Carolina and Rhode Island are poised to finally get over that hump next season. Kansas (27 straight NCAA tournament appearances), Duke (21), Michigan State (19), Gonzaga (18) and Wisconsin (18) have made getting to the tournament in the 2000s look easy. However, the majority of ...

The 2016 crop of college football's starting quarterbacks is becoming clear after competitions ruled college football headlines during spring practice. Returning starters, experienced backups and talented youngsters spent most of March and April in the spotlight. Following the workouts, though, just two or three real contenders remain at most programs. Nearly every battle brought the anticipated result. While no clear-cut starter emerged at schools such as Michigan and Notre Dame, the spring still brought some separation on ...

Spring practices have wrapped up around the South, with some questions being answered at key positions. Trevor Knight has been tabbed as Texas A&M's starting quarterback, Drew Barker will take the snaps at Kentucky and Austin Allen will take over under center for his older brother at Arkansas. How has that impacted the SEC race? Does the fact that other key positions battles around the SEC remain unresolved drop contenders down the pecking order? Our post-spring SEC power ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — All at Mallard Creek High School on Sunday saw the future of Stanford football compete nearly in his own stratosphere. Davis Mills put on a show in the Elite 11 Charlotte regional that solidified his top-five national ranking among pro-style quarterbacks. The Greater Atlanta Christian School standout not only claimed camp MVP honors but also earned an invitation to compete in the Elite 11 finals, which will take place June 3-5 in Los Angeles. Mills stood ...

Spring football has come and gone, at least in the Big Ten, which wrapped up its final spring games of the year this past weekend. Now all eyes in the conference will turn toward offseason conditioning and workouts leading up to the start of fall camps this August. But with spring ball having passed, we now know more about the Big Ten as a whole than we did even just a couple of months ago. Even with ...

The only constant in college football is change. The end of each season is the beginning of the talent life cycle. Players declare for the NFL draft, and a few weeks later, coaches sign new recruits to national letters of intent, filling holes left by graduation and early draft entries. That was true this year, as it is all years. A total of 107 players declared early for the draft, and this weekend, they’ll see their ...

Jaeveyon Morton isn't a piece of someone's turf. He isn't a piece of meat. He's not a commodity or a statistic. No, he is a 16-year-old sophomore at Martin Luther King High School in Detroit. He has dreams. Football talent, smarts, athleticism, a work ethic, a face, a name, hopes and dreams. "I want to go to college and play football," he says. The amazing thing is, even though he's only 5'9", he is good enough to achieve ...