9:01 AM ET A Mississippi State football player who criticized Bulldogs coach Mike Leach’s tweet that showed a meme of a woman knitting her husband a noose during self-quarantine entered the NCAA transfer portal on Friday. Defensive lineman Fabien Lovett wrote on Twitter that he entered the transfer portal and has three years of eligibility

7:50 PM ET The SEC is exploring whether Alabama will be able to continue using Apple watches to monitor its football players’ physical activities during the league-mandated shutdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic, sources told ESPN on Friday. During a conference call with reporters Thursday, Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban said his program had provided

12:07 PM ET Amid ongoing concern and escalating coronavirus infection rates in the United States, Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said he remains optimistic that the college football season will start on time. Asked his preference for how the sport might adjust to potential schedule issues due to the pandemic, Swinney said his only focus is

Apr 3, 2020 Rodrigo Blankenship‘s NFL draft process will be different than most. Almost immediately, some teams will have no interest in him solely because of the position he plays, so the former University of Georgia kicker has to do research. At the Senior Bowl, for instance, he didn’t turn down an interview, but he

10:17 PM ET ESPN.com staff When it comes to classic college football games, it’s hard to top the 2006 Rose Bowl between Texas and USC. Former Longhorns and Trojans took to social media as they watched the rebroadcast of their classic showdown in Pasadena. The memories came flooding back as they relived Vince Young’s heroics

7:05 PM ET Former North Dakota State linebacker and two-time FCS All-American Jabril Cox has committed to transfer to LSU. Cox, who made the announcement on his Twitter page on Thursday afternoon, is a graduate transfer and will be immediately eligible to play. Here we Geaux!!📍🐯 pic.twitter.com/p2Q47VW8d6 — Jabril Cox (@_Brillo) April 2, 2020 The

8:00 AM ET Two years ago, the 10-team Sun Belt Conference broke into two divisions. This was a semi-pointless exercise considering each team plays eight of nine conference opponents every year, which nearly ruins the point of an inter-division rotation. It was also a bit unfair to the teams in the Sun Belt East —

4:08 PM ET Mississippi State coach Mike Leach apologized Thursday for a since-deleted tweet that showed a meme of a woman knitting her husband a noose during quarantine. Leach removed the tweet, which was posted Wednesday night, and had the caption, “After 2 weeks of quarantine with her husband, Gertrude decided to knit him a

7:00 AM ET Editor’s note: This story originally ran in 2017. Watch a replay of the classic Texas-USC game tonight on ESPN and the ESPN App at 8 p.m. ET as part of Throwback Thursday: CFB Classics. We, as fans and consumers of sports, ask a lot of those we watch. We want them to

5:19 PM ET The Division I council coordination committee and the Division II administrative committee collectively announced Wednesday that the recruiting dead period will be extended through May 31. A dead period had initially been created on March 13 that would last through April 15 due to the coronavirus pandemic, but the committees left the