The NCAA has settled on the format for the new 68-team men’s basketball tournament, though the announcement isn’t scheduled until sometime next …
Mississippi State coach Rick Stansbury said Saturday morning that Phil Turner “forced us to make other plans” by…
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Former Louisville basketball standout Kenny Payne has been hired as one of John Calipari’s assistant coaches at rival Kentucky.
The CEO of FedEx is prepared to pay upwards of $10 million a year to a BCS conference that will add Memphis, according to an online report.
CBSSports.com’s Gary Parrish, citing unnamed sources close to the Memphis program, reports Fred Smith is leading the effort to get the Tigers to move up from Conference USA.
Pac-10 officials paid Oklahoma a visit, and Oklahoma State, too. Sunday, they will make a Texas swing. Are more Big 12 moves imminent? Andy Staples breaks down the latest news.
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Chris Schenkel, the late, great sportscaster, famously referred to college football as “the autumn spectacle.” He…
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USC will be losing scholarships and postseason eligibility thanks to recent NCAA sanctions. The Trojans might lose their 2004 BCS national championship, and Reggie Bush might lose his Heisman Trophy.
However, USC will still get to keep its 2004 Associated Press national title, the Los Angeles Times reports.
The two worst-kept secrets of college football expansion were formally set in motion Friday: Nebraska joined the Big Ten, and Boise State joined the Mountain West.
But those weren’t the only things we learned on yet another busy day.
James McMahon will put on his Oak Grove uniform for the final time today in the 36th annual D.M. Howie Mississippi…
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Thanks in large part to a landmark 15-year television deal with a reported value in the billions, the Southeastern…
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BCS executive director Bill Hancock wants higher education
officials to make the decisions about college football without
interference from the U.S. government.
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Daniel Orton and Eric Bledsoe join Kentucky teammates John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins in this year’s NBA Draft.
Turned off by the expansion cash-grab? Worried conference realignment will hurt your team? It’s time to go against your gut and root for Notre Dame. SI.com’s Andy Staples explains.
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Kentucky forward Patrick Patterson will enter the NBA draft and
skip his senior season with the Wildcats.
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Coaches’ compensation now represents the biggest strain on collegiate athletic budgets, to the point that about $1.8 billion in student fees and university funds were used to cover gaps in athletic operating costs at Division I schools last year, according to a study conducted by USA Today.
ST. LOUIS—We wanted to love you, Northern Iowa. But first we had to get to know you a little better. And now it’s just too late.
NEW ORLEANS—There was Kansas on the television, dying the slowest death since Arnold Schwarzenegger in “The Terminator,” and Kentucky coach John Calipari immediately recognized that was the last thing his Wildcats needed to see before their own second-round NCAA Tournament game.
NASHVILLE—Mississippi State assistant coach Robert Kirby was sitting three rows from the floor here at Bridgestone Arena with just under seven minutes to play when Kentucky’s Darnell Dodson knocked down an open 3-pointer on a pass from DeMarcus Cousins. It was Dodson’s second 3-pointer in a span of a minute, putting the Wildcats up by 15 and helping send Kentucky to a 74-45 blowout win over Tennessee, putting UK into the SEC championship game.
Sporting News’ Dan Blank looks at five teams surging and five more slumping heading into another busy college basketball weekend.
After the Texas squad’s 36-17 victory Saturday in the Texas vs. The Nation all-star game, Sporting News draft expert Russ Lande and his team of former NFL scouts identified the players who helped their draft status the most this past week in El Paso:
A month from now, it’ll be time to talk about which basketball teams look like potential NCAA champions. At this point, it’s more interesting to judge the four remaining one-loss teams according to the value in those records:
Tebow’s shaky Senior Bowl does little to impress pro scouts.
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STARKVILLE — Ravern Johnson scored 15 points and Jarvis Varnado had 11 points and 10 rebounds, helping Mississippi State beat LSU 67-51 today at Humphrey Coliseum and break a two-game losing streak.
