6:05 PM ET Associated Press EAST LANSING, Mich. — Mike Tressel and Ron Burton are remaining on the defensive staff for Michigan State’s football team. The team announced the two assistants would be back. A team spokesman said Burton will coach the defensive line, and Tressel’s role is to be determined. The Spartans hired Mel

12:01 PM ET The Burrow name will remain in the LSU area beyond the school’s record books for a while, as the Baton Rouge Zoo announced Friday that its new male giraffe will be named “Burreaux.” You voted. We tallied. Meet Burreaux!!! Thanks to everyone who nominated and supported the cause. This little guy has

10:32 PM ET For the first time since Mel Tucker departed for Michigan State earlier this week, Colorado reached out Thursday night to Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy to gauge his interest in its head-coaching job, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. “Nothing imminent,” the source said. “EB is doing his due diligence.”

5:40 PM ET Eastern Kentucky linebacker Michael Harris, a former four-star recruit who transferred from Auburn, was arrested on four different charges Monday morning in Grove City, Ohio after he hoisted a police officer over his head causing them both to fall to the ground. Harris has been suspended from all team and football-related activities,

12:15 PM ET Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — Two former Ohio State football players pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that they held a woman against her will and raped her this month. Defensive backs Amir Riep and Jahsen Wint — who were kicked off the team Wednesday after the charges came to light —

11:15 AM ET The Football Writers Association of America has created an annual award in memory of former ESPN reporter Edward Aschoff, who died on Christmas Eve — his 34th birthday — from previously undetected Stage 4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma in his lungs. The Edward Aschoff Rising Star Award, which was announced Thursday, will recognize one

8:52 PM ET EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State announced Mel Tucker as its 25th head football coach on Wednesday night in East Lansing after a somewhat public search process that started with Luke Fickell and circled back to Tucker. While Michigan State initiated contact with Tucker early on, the target for the position was

6:03 PM ET ESPN News Services Colorado assistant Darrin Chiaverini was named the interim coach of the Buffaloes on Wednesday, less than a day after Mel Tucker accepted an offer to become the coach at Michigan State. Chiaverini, 42, will lead the Buffaloes into spring practices that begin next month after Tucker’s late-at-night departure to

5:28 PM ET Ohio State coach Ryan Day has dismissed Amir Riep and Jahsen Wint from the football program after the two players were booked into jail early Wednesday on charges of rape and kidnapping. “I am not making any statement on the criminal charges, but it is clear they did not live up to

1:38 PM ET After a slow start, the 2019-20 college football coaching cycle seemingly won’t end. Colorado is the latest school in the market for a new coach. Mel Tucker is off to Michigan State after only one year at CU, where he went 5-7, beat Washington and Nebraska, and signed a top-35 recruiting class.