A police department on a North Carolina college campus says a man armed with a machete smeared satanic messages in blood on a sorority house and on a vehicle belonging to a student living there By The Associated Press September 28, 2020, 8:01 PM • 1 min read GREENVILLE, N.C. — A man armed with […]
Read MoreCOLLEGE PARK, Md. — A Maryland county has agreed to a $20 million settlement with the family of a man who was handcuffed in a patrol car when a police officer shot and killed him, a county official said Monday. The Prince George’s County police officer who killed William Green in January was arrested on […]
Read MoreNo. 6 Ohio State, No. 10 Penn State and No. 14 Oregon returned to the Associated Press college football poll on Sunday, weeks before they start playing, creating a Top 25 as unusual as this season. At the top of the rankings this week, Clemson remained No. 1 with 55 first-place votes, followed by Alabama […]
Read MoreAs top prospects opted out one by one this offseason, wary of an uncertain college football calendar, USC’s top returning wideout considered following the same path. But Amon-ra St. Brown was in no hurry to make that leap, even as he watched teammates Alijah Vera-Tucker and Jay Tufele declare their intentions to skip the upcoming […]
Read MoreLove it or hate it, the Electoral College is the turnstile to the White House, and that means that a handful of states will swallow up most of the attention on Election Day and, if necessary, in the days that follow as ballots are counted. Here are some key cities and counties in four states […]
Read MoreThe Mid-American Conference, the first major college football league to postpone its season because of the COVID-19 pandemic, has become the final one to jump back in, making it 10 out of 10 conferences that will play in the fall. As university presidents in the Big Ten, Pac-12 and Mountain West have done over the […]
Read MoreIt’s Week 4 of the College Football season, and Countdown to GameDay starts bright and early to get you ready for a jam-packed day of college football. Christine Williamson and Jason Fitz will be joined by Chris Fallica, Jim Mora, and Brad Edwards to discuss the Pac-12’s decision to return to play, and break down […]
Read MorePresident Trump touted the Pac-12’s decision to resume its college football season on Thursday night, days after he pressured conference officials to reverse their decision to postpone play during the coronavirus pandemic. “GREAT NEWS! PAC- 12 football is back this Fall! Congrats to the players, their families, the coaches, and the universities,” Trump tweeted. “The west […]
Read MoreThe Pac-12 Conference is joining the other four most powerful leagues in college sports in deciding to play football this fall, defying the risks of the coronavirus pandemic to salvage a season for fans and the financial health of its schools. The Pac-12, which said last month that its teams would not compete until at […]
Read MoreAs Bam Adebayo’s college coach, John Calipari is admittedly biased but also unapologetic when he gushes about his former player and how much the burgeoning Miami Heat star has improved since his lone season at the University of Kentucky. “He reached out to us,” Calipari said. “He was like, ‘Why isn’t Kentucky recruiting me?’ “He […]
Read MoreWhen Lori Loughlin reports to prison for her part in the nationwide college admissions scandal, she might be serving her time at a facility that offers such activities as calligraphy, spin class, or cross-fit. Lori Loughlin has just a few weeks left until she faces the music. The 56-year-old actress must report to prison on […]
Read MoreFormer First Lady Michelle Obama says her college coed daughters are ‘sick of’ their parents after spending months with her and former POTUS husband Barack in quarantine. At first the Obama family had some really amazing times together when the COVID-19 lockdown began in March. But former First Lady Michelle Obama says that by the start […]
Read MoreLast month, several college conferences, the Big Ten and the Pac 12 among them, postponed their sports seasons, including football, citing the risks posed to athletes by the coronavirus. A major factor in those decisions, according to some physicians, was the uncertain implications of a July paper in JAMA Cardiology. In this study of 100 […]
Read MoreNotre Dame quarterback Ian Book (12) in action during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Navy, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019, in South Bend, Ind. | Darron Cummings/AP Photo The school announced that seven players tested positive for the coronavirus after 94 were tested Monday. Notre Dame’s game at Wake Forest on […]
Read MoreJared Walsh was a 39th-round pick in 2015, a college first baseman who gradually rose through the Angels’ farm system and arrived in Anaheim without the hype or seven-figure signing bonus attached to younger teammate Jo Adell, a first-round pick who signed for $4.377 million in 2017. “I’ll never forget it: $3,000,” Walsh said, when […]
Read MoreA week before Big Ten teams become eligible again for the Associated Press college football poll, No. 25 Marshall is ranked for the first time since 2014 and Miami jumped to No. 12 after a conference road victory. Clemson remained a nearly unanimous No. 1 in the AP Top 25 on Sunday after another light […]
Read MoreIt’s Week 3 of the College Football season and Countdown to GameDay starts bright and early live from Bristol, CT. Jason Fitz and Christine Williamson are joined by Desmond Howard, Jim Mora, and Chris Low to discuss the Big Ten’s decision to return to play this season, break down the primetime match-up between the No. […]
Read MoreAs the college sports world is in chaos, with some teams playing, some dropping out and the Big Ten suddenly changing its mind about playing football this fall, it might get overlooked that there is another slate of games this weekend. And, partly because of the confusion and cancellations, that slate of games is absolutely […]
Read MoreTim Tebow joins First Take to discuss the Big Ten’s plans to play the college football season and how the College Football Playoff will be impacted this season. #FirstTake ✔️Subscribe to ESPN+ https://plus.espn.com/ ✔️ Get the ESPN App: http://www.espn.com/espn/apps/espn ✔️Subscribe to ESPN on YouTube: http://es.pn/SUBSCRIBEtoYOUTUBE ✔️ Subscribe to NBA on ESPN on YouTube: http://bit.ly/SUBSCRIBEtoNBAonESPN ✔️ […]
Read MoreA shooting in Indiana that police say apparently stemmed from a college house party left one person dead while two others were being treated at a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries By The Associated Press September 18, 2020, 12:39 PM • 1 min read TERRE HAUTE, IND. — A shooting in Indiana that police said apparently […]
Read MoreThe college basketball season will open Nov. 25, with or without UCLA and USC. The NCAA’s Division I council on Wednesday approved that start date, but it remained unclear whether teams such as the Bruins and Trojans that face stiffer government health restrictions than many of their Pac-12 Conference counterparts would be cleared to play […]
Read MorePresident Trump celebrated the return of the Big Ten college football conference as it worked to combat the coronavirus, and emphatically told the Pac-12 it was their turn to “get going.” “I want to congratulate Big Ten football. It’s back,” Trump said during a press conference on Wednesday. Its return came after Trump publicly pressured the conference, which primarily consists […]
Read MoreBarack Obama was an emotional wreck when he took daughter Malia to college for the first time. Michelle Obama confessed on her podcast that they both wept in the car after leaving her at Harvard freshman year! Who knew that Barack Obama was such a big softie? Former First Lady Michelle Obama revealed on her […]
Read MoreThey arrived with hopes of completing one final college football season, worried it might get yanked away, never imagining they might be granted a bonus slate of games. Come for a season, stay for the 2-for-1 special? That’s a possibility for UCLA’s four graduate transfers, who could go from short-timers to needing to renew their […]
Read MoreStephen A. Smith and Max Kellerman discuss the Big Ten’s plans to announce the return of the college football season in October. #FirstTake #CollegeFootball ✔️Subscribe to ESPN+https://plus.espn.com/ ✔️ Get the ESPN App: http://www.espn.com/espn/apps/espn ✔️Subscribe to ESPN on YouTube: http://es.pn/SUBSCRIBEtoYOUTUBE ✔️ Subscribe to NBA on ESPN on YouTube: http://bit.ly/SUBSCRIBEtoNBAonESPN ✔️ Watch ESPN on YouTube TV: http://es.pn/YouTubeTV […]
Read MoreWith college football carrying on elsewhere across the nation while programs in California remain unable to practice, USC football players made a public plea on Tuesday, asking Gov. Gavin Newsom in a letter to loosen restrictions surrounding college sports and “please let us play.” “We have sat by for two weeks watching teams across the […]
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