8:00 AM ET ESPN staff Complaining about the College Football Playoff has become its own form of sport for many fan bases around the country — usually those outside Tuscaloosa, Alabama, central Ohio and the southernmost Carolina. This year, those grievances grew louder, as a pandemic challenged the typical criteria for the committee, new rules

10:13 AM ET Tennessee-Chattanooga on Thursday fired assistant coach Chris Malone after a racist tweet in which he mocked Georgia politician and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams. Head coach Rusty Wright and athletic director Mark Wharton both issued statements admonishing Malone, who has deleted the tweet. Malone, Tennessee-Chattanooga’s offensive line coach, tweeted Tuesday night about

9:34 AM ET Tennessee officials haven’t extended the contracts of assistant football coaches and have paused hiring coaches for vacancies as the Volunteers continue to investigate whether recruiting violations occurred within the program, sources told ESPN on Thursday. Earlier this week, the university announced it had hired attorneys Mike Glazier and Kyle Skillman to assist

5:30 PM ET Editor’s note: Richard Lapchick is a human rights activist, pioneer for racial equality, expert on sports issues, scholar and author. As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, many college sports have been postponed, cut or canceled since March. The world has been confronted by a racial reckoning that came about after the

1:14 PM ET Trevor Lawrence departs Clemson as one of its greatest players: a national champion, a record setter, a winner through and through. That he is the best player available for the 2021 NFL draft has never been disputed — not this year, not the year before, and not the year before that, when

8:15 PM ET Alabama coach Nick Saban’s daughter has apologized for a tweet on Tuesday in which she suggested that Ohio State was using COVID-19 issues to postpone Monday night’s scheduled College Football Playoff National Championship presented by AT&T because Buckeyes quarterback Justin Fields is injured. On Tuesday, sources told ESPN there had been discussions

4:37 PM ET ESPN News Services Prosecutors in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday decided not to file criminal charges against a police officer in the shooting of Jacob Blake last August. The shooting of Blake prompted NBA players to protest by not playing games on Aug. 26-28. More than 100 NBA employees walked out in solidarity

7:40 PM ET Editor’s note: This story originally ran in November. It has been updated after he won the Heisman Trophy. The skinny kid from Amite, Louisiana, stood on the floor of the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans and watched as Livonia celebrated a Class 3A state championship. Tears welled in his eyes, but he

5:01 PM ET Oklahoma receiver Charleston Rambo, who started 24 games the past two years for the Sooners, announced on Monday that he is entering the transfer portal. “Thank you Sooner Nation, Coach Stoops, Coach Riley and Coach Simmons for believing in me,” Rambo wrote on Twitter. “Thank you OU football for the lifelong memories

10:23 AM ET Marshall coach Doc Holliday is out after 11 seasons at the school. Holliday tweeted Monday that university president Jerry Gilbert informed him that the school would not be extending his contract, which was set to expire at the end of June. He went 85-54 at Marshall (55-30 in league play) with a