| | 5. NCAA’s Charlie Baker concerned about ‘enormously problematic’ prop betting in college sports00:40[-/+] | GLENDALE, Ariz. — NCAA president Charlie Baker said before Monday’s men’s basketball championship game that the organization remains concerned about gambling in college sports but added that “we’re kind of in the top of the first inning on this one,” particularly when it comes to prop betting.
“Did any of you notice how much time was spent on cable TV about Caitlin Clark’s prop performance (after the) first (national semifinals) game leading into the second game?” Baker said. “Was that really what we should be talking about in the middle of a women’s Final Four? I... | ↑ |
20. Marvin Harrison Jr. ranked No. 2 NFL Draft prospect in ‘The Beast’: Could he break early run of QBs?00:40[-/+] | The NFL has no plans to stop being a passing league, so there should be no doubt about quarterbacks coming off the board first in the 2024 NFL Draft, which kicks off on April 25. But while presumed No. 1 pick QB Caleb Williams sits atop Dane Brugler’s top 100 prospect rankings in “The Beast, The Athletic’s annual draft guide, the top five also includes a pair of wide receivers and an offensive tackle.
Behind Williams, Brugler’s top-ranked quarterbacks are No. 4 Drake Maye (North Carolina), No. 8 Jayden Daniels (LSU) and No. 21 J.J. McCarthy (Michigan). Each could... | ↑ |
28. Washington State AD Pat Chun leaving for same job at Washington, per sources: What it means for Cougars00:40[-/+] | By Bruce Feldman, Nicole Auerbach and Christopher Kamrani
Washington State athletic director Pat Chun is leaving to join archrival Washington, program sources confirmed to The Athletic on Tuesday. Chun’s move comes one day after Washington State men’s basketball coach Kyle Smith announced he was leaving for Stanford, who joins the ACC this year.
Washington State remains one of the two remaining members of the Pac-12 conference.
Chun spent a half-dozen years at WSU after serving as FAU’s athletic director. Chun led the Cougars through a very turbulent time in recent years, most... | ↑ |
29. NCAA president Charlie Baker wants ban on prop bets in college sports00:40[-/+] | NCAA president Charlie Baker wants a ban on prop bets in college sports, he said in a statement released Wednesday.
“The NCAA is drawing the line on sports betting to protect student-athletes and to protect the integrity of the game – issues across the country these last several days show there is more work to be done,” Baker said.
Prop bets allow fans to bet on how many points or rebounds a basketball player might have, or yards or touchdowns a football player might have, instead of or in conjunction with a game’s outcome or spread.
Fans can bet on the outcomes of games but in many of... | ↑ |
32. College football will study new NFL kickoff rule during 2024 season00:40[-/+] | ATHENS, Ga. — The XFL kickoff system is coming to the NFL. And that means college football may not be far behind.
Georgia head coach Kirby Smart, a member of the college football rules committee, said he and others in the game are looking to make the kickoff more relevant while also making it safer. So they will follow the new NFL rule, which was approved on Tuesday.
“I think the NFL is the model. They know what they want. They know what they’re trying to do,” Smart said Tuesday. “And they’re going to get it right, and then hopefully we can look into it ourselves, if the kickoff is... | ↑ |
37. Georgia RB Trevor Etienne to face ‘consequences’ after DUI and reckless driving arrest00:40[-/+] | ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia tailback Trevor Etienne, arrested and charged with DUI and reckless driving early Sunday morning, will face university and team discipline, coach Kirby Smart said Tuesday, indicating a suspension though not confirming it.
Etienne, 19, was charged with four misdemeanor driving-related charges, according to a police report released Tuesday morning. Etienne declined a sobriety test and was going about 80-90 mph in a 50 mph limit zone, passing cars in the process, per the report.
Driving-related offenses have been a major issue at Georgia for more than a year, and team... | ↑ |
41. Big 12 delays Mexico initiative with new target date of 202500:40[-/+] | Follow live coverage as UConn, Purdue play for the national championship today
The Big 12 announced that the launch of its Big 12 Mexico initiative, slated to begin this December, has been delayed with a new target date of 2025.
The conference announced last June that it planned to host basketball, women’s soccer and baseball games in Mexico, tipping off with Kansas and Houston playing men’s and women’s basketball games in Mexico City’s Arena CDMX in December. The Big 12 also announced it would explore establishing a football bowl game in Monterrey starting in 2026, which would be the... | ↑ |
42. AAC hires Tim Pernetti as its next commissioner00:40[-/+] | The American Athletic Conference has hired IMG Academy president and former Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti as its next commissioner, the conference announced Wednesday.
Pernetti will replace the outgoing Mike Aresco, who announced in December he would retire at the end of the 2023-24 school year. Aresco is the only commissioner in the history of this version of the conference, which spun out of the Big East’s split in 2013.
Like Aresco, Pernetti has a background in both sports business, television and college sports. Additionally, Pernetti worked with both Aresco and Big Ten... | ↑ |
43. Louisiana banning in-state collegiate prop bets for ‘safety and integrity’ of athletes00:40[-/+] | Follow live coverage as UConn, Purdue play for the national championship today
Louisiana is banning licensed sportsbooks in the state from offering prop bets on college athletes.
The ban will go into effect Aug. 1, 2024, at 8 a.m. local time.
“It is the intention of the Louisiana Gaming Control Board to protect the integrity of sports betting as well as the safety and integrity of college athletes,” Louisiana Gaming Control Board chairman Ronnie Johns said in a statement. “We feel that this order accomplishes that goal.”
Prop bets allow fans to bet on how many points or rebounds a... | ↑ |
47. Colorado spring game to air on Pac-12 Network after ESPN opts out00:40[-/+] | Colorado’s spring game is back on television, but it won’t be as easy to find this year. The Pac-12 Network will broadcast Colorado’s spring game at 1 p.m. local time on April 27, the program announced Monday.
ESPN aired last year’s snow-covered game, but the Buffaloes elected to host this year’s game on the same weekend as the NFL Draft and ESPN opted out of an encore.
Sanders said last month that Colorado was in talks with Fox and the Pac-12 Network to carry the game.
Colorado announced plans to leave the Pac-12 for the Big 12 last summer. The move takes effect on July 1. The... | ↑ |
48. USC recruiting: Trojans stay hot, add top-100 LB Matai Tagoa’i to 2025 class00:40[-/+] | Matai Tagoa’i, a four-star linebacker in the Class of 2025, announced his commitment to USC on Monday afternoon, continuing the Trojans’ strong recruiting run over the past few weeks.
Tagoa’i is the No. 80 overall prospect and the No. 7 player in California, per 247Sports Composite. He is also the first in-state prospect in USC’s class.
It’s a strong cycle for linebackers in Southern California, and Tagoa’i is one of three top-100 prospects at the position — along with Madden Faraimo (No. 46) and Noah Mikhail (No. 54), who are both uncommitted.
The Trojans are building a... | ↑ |
50. Northwestern will host football games at temporary on-campus stadium during Ryan Field rebuild00:40[-/+] | Northwestern will build a temporary, on-campus stadium in Evanston, Ill., where it will play the majority of its 2024 and 2025 football games while Ryan Field is reconstructed, the school announced Tuesday.
The university will continue discussions with other Chicago-area stadiums to host some 2024 games. Those game locations will come later this spring. In a statement, the school said, “Capacity for the temporary facility will be considerably less than either the old Ryan Field or the new Ryan Field that is under construction.”
Capacity at the former Ryan Field was 47,130 while the new... | ↑ |
51. Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels among 13 players attending 2024 NFL Draft; J.J. McCarthy not listed00:40[-/+] | Caleb Williams, Drake Maye and Jayden Daniels — the respective top three prospects in The Athletic’s latest 2024 NFL mock draft — are set to attend the event in Detroit later this month. They’re among the 13 players the league confirmed will be attending.
Michigan’s J.J. McCarthy, projected to be selected No. 4 in The Athletic’s mock draft, was not included on Thursday’s list of attendees. The 13 players expected to be at the draft in person mark the lowest since the 2021 draft, when 13 players also attended post-pandemic. Seventeen players attended last... | ↑ |
55. Helmet communication, 2-minute warning coming to college football00:40[-/+] | The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel on Friday officially approved the use of helmet communication and sideline tablets in the Football Bowl Subdivision, as well as a two-minute warning.
The changes were proposed by the NCAA’s football rules committee on March 1 and were expected to be approved. Friday’s decisions were the final rubber stamps, coming after a successful trial run by several teams using the technology in bowl games.
Teams will be allowed to have one player on the field with the helmet communication technology, which will be signified by a green dot on the helmet like... | ↑ |
56. NCAA places Arizona State football on 4-year probation for recruiting violations00:40[-/+] | The NCAA has placed the Arizona State football on probation for four years, as well as penalized former football staffers for their roles in Level I-mitigated violations that occurred mostly during the COVID-19 recruiting dead period, the organization announced Friday.
The penalties also include an undisclosed fine, a self-imposed postseason ban for the 2023 season, vacation of records for contests in which ineligible student-athletes competed, scholarship reductions and recruiting restrictions. The four staffers also agreed to, or did not contest, show-cause penalties for a period ranging... | ↑ |
57. Arizona State QB Jaden Rashada to enter transfer portal: Is Georgia next stop?00:40[-/+] | Arizona State quarterback Jaden Rashada has announced he’s entering the transfer portal. Rashada, a top-100 recruit and the No. 7 ranked QB recruit in the Class of 2023, started his first two games during his freshman season with the Sun Devils and appeared in another, throwing for 485 yards with four touchdowns and three interceptions.
Rashada initially signed with Florida and agreed to a $13.85 million contract with a Gators collective but asked to be released from his letter of intent after the collective failed to make a payment and terminated the agreement.
In Gods Hands. | ↑ |
58. Deion Sanders on transfers leaving Colorado: ‘What are we losing?’00:40[-/+] | Wearing personalized brown corduroy overalls and a full offseason gray beard Thursday, Deion Sanders addressed the latest mass exodus of players from Colorado. And he did it in typical fashion. The second-year Buffaloes coach pushed back on questions from media members who inquired about the players who’ve entered the NCAA Transfer Portal this week, with the number now up to 15.
“I wish you guys would do a little more homework when you start talking about the portal and understand what we’re losing. What are we losing?” Sanders said.
One media member responded with “potential... | ↑ |
63. New federal regulations prevent schools from suspending athletes amid sexual misconduct investigations00:40[-/+] | Universities and athletic departments will not be allowed to suspend athletes accused of sexual misconduct while investigations against the complaints are being conducted, according to the U.S. Department of Education’s amendments of regulations to Title IX.
The provision addressing student athletes’ due process and university investigations into sexual misconduct was one of dozens of sections addressed in the document released Friday and comes after years of proposed Title IX changes from the Biden administration. The document addressed about 235,000 comments from associations,... | ↑ |
64. Arch Manning stars in Texas football spring game with 75-yard TD pass00:40[-/+] | AUSTIN, Texas — Texas redshirt freshman quarterback Arch Manning was the star of the Longhorns’ annual Orange and White spring game, throwing for 355 yards and three touchdowns on Saturday.
Manning’s performance included a 75-yard touchdown pass to DeAndre Moore on Manning’s first play from scrimmage and a strong display of accuracy, as he completed his first 10 passes. Manning finished 19-of-26 passing with at least four of his incompletions hitting the intended receiver’s hands.
He got most of the action with the first-team offense as starting quarterback Quinn Ewers played... | ↑ |
68. Iowa quarterback Deacon Hill enters transfer portal: What this means for Hawkeyes00:40[-/+] | IOWA CITY, Iowa — Quarterback Deacon Hill, who started nine games for Iowa last year, has entered the transfer portal with two years available, he announced via Instagram on Tuesday.
Here's what former Iowa QB Deacon Hill wrote announcing his entry into the transfer portal. pic.twitter.com/XiPBIexCB4
— Scott Dochterman (@ScottDochterman) April 23, 2024
Hill, an incoming junior, was thrust into action last September when original Iowa starter Cade McNamara suffered a torn ACL early in the team’s fifth game against Michigan State. Hill presided over the Hawkeyes’ offense for... | ↑ |
69. What it means for Pac-12 to be classified as ‘nonautonomous FBS conference’00:40[-/+] | The Pac-12 Conference, which will drop down to two members this summer, will no longer be an “autonomous conference,” the NCAA Division I Board of Directors determined on Monday, effective Aug. 2. It will instead be classified as a “nonautonomous FBS conference” like the Group of 5.
The board created new governance thresholds for conferences that fall below membership requirements. As a result, the Pac-12 will lose representation on the Board of Directors. It will retain representation and voting rights on the Division I Council, the Football Oversight Committee and the Division I... | ↑ |
70. Nate Marshall commitment gives Michigan first recruiting win under Sherrone Moore00:40[-/+] | Winning the national championship didn’t produce immediate returns in recruiting for Michigan, but the first commitment of Sherrone Moore’s tenure was a significant one. Four-star defensive lineman Nathaniel Marshall, the No. 35 player in the 247Sports Composite, committed to Michigan on Monday over Alabama, Illinois, Miami and others. He’s the fourth commitment in Michigan’s 2025 class and the first since early January.
Marshall’s commitment came on the heels of Saturday’s Michigan spring game and could signal a shift in momentum after a quiet stretch following Jim... | ↑ |
71. Jim Harbaugh gets “15-0” tattoo on shoulder to commemorate Michigan season, as promised00:40[-/+] | Jim Harbaugh may have left Michigan to coach the Los Angeles Chargers, but he’ll wear a reminder of the Wolverines’ perfect 2023 season forever. On Saturday, the coach followed through on a promise he made to players and got “15-0” tattooed on his right shoulder under a block M.
Harbaugh promised the players he would get his first tattoo if the team went undefeated, which it did as Michigan capped the year with the program’s 12th national title.
“I have no ink on my body,” Harbaugh said after his team beat Washington in the national championship game. “No... | ↑ |
76. Albany football star AJ Simon Jr. dies week before NFL Draft00:40[-/+] | Amitral “AJ” Simon Jr., a standout player for the University at Albany football program during its journey to the FCS semifinals, died Wednesday at the age of 25. The program announced Simon’s death in a social media post. It did not disclose the cause.
Simon, originally from Tobyhanna, Pa., played two seasons at UAlbany after beginning his college career at Bloomsburg (Pa.) University. As a 6-foot-1, 267-pound edge rusher, he recorded 17.5 sacks during his time at Albany, 12.5 of which came in the 2023 season, when the team finished with an 11-4 record.
Forever a Great Dane... | ↑ |
79. KeAndre Lambert-Smith, Penn State’s leading receiver in 2023, enters transfer portal00:40[-/+] | STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Penn State’s receiving corps shuffle continues. KeAndre Lambert-Smith, the Nittany Lions’ top target last season, has entered the transfer portal as a graduate transfer, The Athletic has learned. Lambert-Smith, a senior, wasn’t at practice Tuesday night during the media viewing window and wasn’t present at Saturday’s Blue-White game, either. Lambert-Smith subsequently announced he was entering the portal Monday afternoon.
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— uno (@drelambertt) April 15, 2024
Lambert-Smith led the Nittany Lions last season with 53... | ↑ |
82. Arizona State hiring Hines Ward as wide receivers coach: Source00:40[-/+] | By Doug Haller, Seth Emerson and Jenna West
Arizona State made a splashy move Saturday by adding Pittsburgh Steelers great Hines Ward as wide receivers coach, a source briefed on the situation said.
Ward, who played wide receiver for the Steelers for 14 years, heads to Arizona State after coaching the XFL’s San Antonio Brahmas in 2023. His resume also includes working with the receivers at Florida Atlantic in 2021 and serving as an offensive assistant with the New York Jets in 2019 and ’20. He first got coaching experience as an offensive intern with the Steelers in 2017, six years... | ↑ |
86. Ohio State paying former UCLA head coach Chip Kelly $2 million salary to be OC00:40[-/+] | Ohio State released its updated coaching contacts for the 2024 season, including a $2 million price tag for new offensive coordinator Chip Kelly.
According to contracts The Athletic obtained through public records requests, the former UCLA head coach has a contract running through Jan. 31, 2027, and will be paid $2 million for his first year, $2.1 million in his second year and $2.2 million in his third year.
That makes Kelly the second-highest-paid assistant on Ohio State’s staff. Defensive coordinator Jim Knowles earned a raise and is now making $2.2 million after helping the Buckeyes... | ↑ |
95. Cormani McClain, 5-star who flipped to Deion Sanders’ first Colorado class, entering transfer portal00:40[-/+] | Colorado cornerback Cormani McClain plans to enter the NCAA transfer portal after one season with the Buffaloes, he announced Tuesday.
McClain, a former five-star and the No. 1 ranked cornerback recruit in the Class of 2023, was the highest-rated signee in coach Deion Sanders’ first recruiting class at Colorado after Sanders flipped the Lakeland, Fla., standout away from a commitment to Miami.
The 6-foot-2, 165-pound cornerback got off to a slow start during his freshman season and didn’t play a snap on defense in the Buffaloes’ first three games. Sanders told reporters McClain needed to... | ↑ |
97. Group of 5 leaders discussing G5-only playoff, realignment as future options00:40[-/+] | DALLAS — Group of 5 administrators have had preliminary discussions in recent months about a G5-only postseason playoff or even wide-scale G5 realignment with the involvement of private equity.
Multiple administrators from within the G5 conferences — the American, Sun Belt, Mountain West, MAC and Conference USA — told The Athletic that former college and NFL coach Derek Dooley has been the salesman on behalf of private equity firms, making contact with schools. The administrators, who were granted anonymity to discuss sensitive matters, made clear that nothing is imminent and they... | ↑ |
99. Michigan football receives 3 years of NCAA probation for recruiting violations during COVID-19 pandemic00:40[-/+] | Michigan’s football program will serve three years of NCAA probation as a result of violations dating back to the COVID-19 dead period.
The NCAA’s Committee on Infractions approved a negotiated resolution involving Michigan and five current or former staff members, it said Tuesday. As part of the resolution, Michigan agreed to pay a fine and the staff members accepted one-year show cause orders tied to Level II violations.
“Today’s joint resolution pertains to the University of Michigan Athletic Department and several former and current employees,” athletic director Warde Manuel said... | ↑ |
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