4:06 PM ET Alabama is back in front of Clemson — in football coaching salaries. The University of Alabama’s board of trustees on Wednesday approved contracts and salaries for Nick Saban’s coaching staff, including seven new assistants. From the Sweet 16 on, we conclude our college football tournament by crowning one champion in an Alabama-Georgia

1:33 PM ET Lindsey ThiryESPN Close Covered Rams for two years for Los Angeles Times Previously covered the Falcons Has covered the NBA and college football and basketball LOS ANGELES – Jake Olson, a blind long snapper at USC, participated in the Trojans’ Pro Day on Wednesday to raise funds and awareness for retinoblastoma, a

9:29 PM ET HOUSTON — As Dana Holgorsen opened up his first spring as the Houston Cougars‘ head coach, he did so on Tuesday with his best returning player — senior quarterback D’Eriq King — ready to go. King, who missed the Cougars’ final two games last season with a torn meniscus in his right

4:01 PM ET Miami quarterback Tate Martell is eligible to play immediately after the NCAA approved his waiver request, the school announced Tuesday. we aren’t ready yet.. but we will be! oh btw… I’M ELIGIBLE TO PLAY! pic.twitter.com/jSr9wmwiqi — TATE MARTELL (@TheTateMartell) March 19, 2019 Martell, who transferred to Miami from Ohio State in January,

10:06 PM ET Keith Gill will become the first African-American commissioner of a Football Bowl Subdivision conference when he is named to head the Sun Belt Conference, according to USA Today Sports. The Sun Belt has scheduled a news conference for Tuesday but did not divulge the nature of the announcement. Gill had been executive

3:06 PM ET Keith Gill is the new commissioner of the Sun Belt Conference, the league announced on Tuesday. Gill becomes the first African-American commissioner of a Football Bowl Subdivision conference. Gill, who had been executive associate commissioner of Atlantic 10 basketball since May 2017, had previously served as athletic director at American University and

9:13 PM ET Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. — LSU coach Ed Orgeron is in line for a two-year extension to 2023 and a $500,000 pay raise to $4 million annually, plus incentives, under a proposal drafted by the university’s athletic administration. The proposal was published Monday when the board’s agenda was released and is

6:00 PM ET Associated Press ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan is without defensive back Lavert Hill and wide receiver Nico Collins at spring practice after both had unspecified procedures. Coach Jim Harbaugh said Monday he didn’t know whether the two players would miss all of spring practice. Wide receiver Donovan Peoples-Jones is also not participating.

5:12 PM ET East Carolina defensive end Nate Harvey, the 2018 American Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Year, will begin preparing for the NFL draft after the NCAA denied his appeal for an additional year of eligibility. The NCAA on Friday informed new ECU coach Mike Houston that Harvey’s appeal had been denied. Harvey

1:09 AM ET ESPN News Services Lynn Swann, hired by the USC Trojans three years ago to run an athletic department all too familiar with scandal, says he won’t resign in the face of more of it. Swann, speaking to the Los Angeles Times about the college admission bribery case in which a senior associate