10:24 PM ET Mark Emmert’s 12-year tenure as the head of the NCAA is coming to a close. Emmert and the NCAA’s Board of Governors announced Tuesday that he will be stepping down from his role as president by June 2023, or sooner if his replacement is found before then. Emmert, 69, has spent the
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5:17 PM ET A grand jury on Tuesday indicted former Georgia linebacker Adam Anderson and charged with him raping a 21-year-old woman in a house in Athens, Georgia, on Oct. 29. Anderson, who was once considered a potential first-round choice in this week’s NFL draft, has an arraignment scheduled for June 13. Anderson, from Rome,
6:30 AM ET Matt MillerESPN The 2022 NFL draft has been the most difficult to predict — even as the draft is only days away. This year has no consensus No. 1 pick and truly doesn’t have even a consensus No. 1 overall player. There is no star at quarterback whom teams are vying for
7:00 AM ET NORMAN, Okla. — Karen Walker, her husband, Josh, and their 7-year-old son, Cannon, arrived at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium ready to celebrate on Saturday. It had been 151 days since Lincoln Riley shocked Oklahoma football fans by announcing he was leaving for USC. Karen marked the occasion by wearing an “IT
4:59 PM ET In a move to provide more transparency with regard to the transfer portal, the NCAA released statistics and information for the years 2020 and 2021 that shows only 54% of FBS players who entered the portal enrolled at a new school. During the two-year period shown in the infographics provided by the
HASKELL GARRETT SOMETIMES thinks about whether he really needed his phone that night. He had left it in his car, some five or so blocks from home, but it was the middle of the night — the clock was creeping toward 1 a.m. — so what would a few more hours without it matter? In
11:53 AM ET Blake Baumgartner Texas landed a pair of recruits following its spring game Saturday, as wide receiver Ryan Niblett and running back Tre Wisner both pledged to join coach Steve Sarkisian’s program. Niblett is ranked No. 96 in the ESPN 300 for the 2023 class. The 5-foot-10, 170-pound wide receiver out of Eisenhower
8:56 PM ET NORMAN, Okla. — After a tumultuous offseason for both Oklahoma and favorite son Baker Mayfield, the Sooners faithful showed up to welcome new coach Brent Venables and see the unveiling of Mayfield’s statue in OU’s Heisman Park. An announced record crowd of 75,360 — over 20,000 more than the previous spring-game attendance
7:12 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN The Lincoln Riley era at USC began with a record. Saturday’s spring game saw 33,427 fans assembled at the Los Angeles Coliseum to watch Riley and Co. reinject the program with some much-needed energy. It’s the biggest crowd for a Trojans spring game since the 1990s, when the school started
5:34 PM ET BATON ROUGE, La. — New LSU coach Brian Kelly said he was pleased with the way his team progressed during the spring, talking up the toughness of the running backs and the skill of the receivers. But at the most important position — quarterback — a three-man race is far from finished.