Former Michigan football assistant Chris Partridge is suing the University of Michigan for wrongful termination and the “devastation” of his reputation after the university used a “false narrative” to fire him. Partridge filed the suit Wednesday in the US District Court for the Eastern Distr…
Basketball can be played on blacktop or hardwood, but the 2026 Big 12 Tournament is adding another surface to the mix: glass.
This season, there is no doubt of who has separated themselves from the rest of the field. Duke, Arizona and Michigan are in a class of their own.
CHICAGO — When Tracey Fuchs arrived at Northwestern in 2009 to try to revive the field hockey program, the coach sometimes found herself having to correct the people she met in Evanston. “Everybody gets field hockey confused with lacrosse. So everybody’s like, ‘Oh, you’re that good team on c…
DALLAS — When she is facilitating name, image and likeness (NIL) deals like the one a few months ago between University of Texas softball players and Walmart, the irony is never lost on Sarah Fuller. She is just a few years removed from being a college athlete herself, one who earned nationa…
President Donald Trump vowed to issue an executive order within one week addressing concerns over athlete salaries, transfers and the impact of gambling after a session with lawmakers and college sports luminaries that left him frustrated over the prospects for legislation to overhaul colleg…
PHILADELPHIA — One afternoon in early December, Bill Raftery and Tim Legler, both La Salle alumni, returned to campus for an hourlong panel discussion about their careers in sports media, only to have the conversation shift to a topic with broader implications. It was a point of pride for th…
RALEIGH, N.C. — In his four years coaching football at N.C. State, Lou Holtz was a dynamo. Small in stature, he was filled with energy, one-liners, fiery competitiveness and football creativity. He could be funny, his blue eyes twinkling behind those black-rimmed glasses. He could be moody. He always seemed confident. Holtz, who died Wednesday, March 4, at 89, was at N.C. State in what many ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina was desperate for relevance. It was late 1998 and the Gamecocks football program was in a spiral. They had been to one bowl game across the previous 10 seasons. Brad Scott was fired after a 1-10 season in 1998. And South Carolina, which had only joined the SEC a few years earlier, was quickly becoming the conference doormat. Athletic Director Mike McGee feared ...
Lou Holtz, the college football titan whose prolific coaching career included a brief stint with the Jets, has died, his family announced on Wednesday. He was 89. Holtz was best known for his illustrious 11-year run as head coach of Notre Dame, with whom he went 100-30-2 and won the 1988 national championship. But Holtz’s résumé was far more wide-reaching, as he is the only coach in NCAA ...
Holtz became the first and so far only coach to lead six different teams to bowl games during a career in which he compiled a record of 249-132-7.
PITTSBURGH — It is ironic that Heather Lyke’s name was in the news Tuesday for some sort of scandal at Syracuse, where she is trying to become the athletic director. That’s because it happened to be the same day that Lyke’s choice to lead Pitt women’s basketball team, Tory Verdi, was fired by her successor, Allen Greene, after just three seasons. Verdi didn’t win many games, but he made up for ...
DENVER — Unless you can spare a dime, Prime’s got time. A few days back, Fox Sports asked its staffers which college football coach was under the “most pressure” in 2026. One picked Wisconsin’s Luke Fickell, whom I’m amazed still has his job. Another took Lincoln Riley at USC. A third chose Deion Sanders at Colorado. Pressure? No question. That 3-9 doesn’t go away. Hot seat? Not the way ...
FORT WORTH, Texas — As Baylor’s latest athletic director, one of Doug McNamee’s unwritten goals is to break a cycle that has seen the last three people in his job forced to resign. In 2003, Tom Stanton resigned in the wake of the fiasco situation created by the men’s basketball team under head coach Dave Bliss. In 2016, Ian McCaw resigned amid the fallout of the mishandled Title IX and sexual ...
DALLAS — Tell me if this sounds like a good idea to you: Next Friday at the White House, three dozen or so “dignitaries and celebrities” ranging from former college football coaches to power conference commissioners to billionaire boosters to the NBA commissioner, the president of the Yankees, a former Secretary of State and a fellow named Tiger Woods have been invited to discuss one of the ...
Take a look in and around Memorial Stadium as the Huskers host the annual spring game, Saturday, April 26, 2025 in Lincoln.
DALLAS — Most mornings, 94-year-old Dick Motta and his 90-year-old wife, Janice, leave their Logan, Utah, condo at 10:30 and head to the community’s gym. Nothing deters the Mottas’ routine or the unity of their 72-year marriage, but lately their respective cellphones sure have been ringing a lot. On Feb. 11, the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame named Dick among 21 finalists for its Class of ...
The USC football schedule this year starts with a vacancy. The Trojans plan to welcome an opponent to be determined to the Coliseum on Aug. 29, and Sacramento State would love to be that opponent. "We're trying," Sacramento State President Luke Wood said Monday. Wood announced last week that the Hornets had jumped into the Football Bowl Subdivision, the upper tier of NCAA Division I football, ...
DALLAS — Joey McGuire received a text message three days after Texas Tech’s season ended in the Orange Bowl from one of his best players. “Coach, I got to see how bad you’re hurting. You need at some point to take a deep breath and understand we did something that nobody has ever been able to do at Texas Tech, and you have to appreciate that.” The text came from Red Raiders linebacker David ...
The new head coach of Eureka (Ill.) College finished the football team’s laundry earlier in the day. He vacuumed the coaches’ offices. The financial-aid office is closed for the weekend, so he didn’t constantly deal with players’ paperwork, like on most days. So, he sat at a school wrestling match, representing his Division III football program, as he talked. “I don’t know anything about ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Amid the arduous years in the making of Kansas City’s bid to become a 2026 FIFA World Cup host, Kathy Nelson remembered speaking several times with Chiefs president Mark Donovan about what might realistically be hoped. Maybe the city would get to have one game here, they figured. Perhaps KC might be fortunate enough to host a base camp for one of the nations in the 48-team ...
FRISCO, Texas — Christian Parker is, at 34, not only the youngest defensive coordinator in Cowboys history, he’s roughly the same age as our oldest son. Doesn’t mean he can’t get the job done, but it could indicate I’ve been doing this too long. And the lovely wife and I started late. Parker gets it, if you were wondering, even if he can’t do anything about it now. “I’ve always been young,” he ...
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Long gone are the days where impulse buying meant grabbing an unplanned candy bar or magazine in the checkout line. Now, social media makes it quick and easy for us to purchase just about anything with the click of a button, whether or not it’s in the budget. And for some Americans, it’s hurting them...
Black Friday is fast approaching, and shoppers are gearing up. The National Retail Federation expects more than 183 million people to shop over the weekend spanning Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday this year. But fraudsters are preparing for Black Friday too, looking for opportunities to steal your money or personal information. Before you dive into holiday...
Holiday shopping season is upon us, and the pressure is on, or at least it feels that way for some parents. A new NerdWallet survey, conducted by The Harris Poll, finds that 48% of parents with children under 18 feel pressure to spend more money on holiday gifts than they’re comfortable spending.According to NerdWallet’s annual...
FORT WORTH, Texas — The most charming and endearing player in college football, who routinely praises God and boasts an endearing LinkedIn profile, could soon be headed to Sin City, a place that celebrates, “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.” Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza is, at least right now, the projected No. 1 pick in the 2026 NFL draft, owned by the Las Vegas Raiders. The ...
UNK and the City of Kearney have approved a long-term agreement to upgrade Dryden Field. Here’s what’s included.
Nebraska announces a kickoff time for the March 28 football spring game, along with other ticket details.
Former Nebraska Athletic Director Bill Moos paints the picture of a dysfunctional Husker athletic department, including an initial meeting with Scott Frost that went poorly.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — This week, just before National Signing Day, Lenoir-Rhyne assistant Nick Vagnone got a call from a Charlotte-area high school football coach who, it turned out, had a bit of an unusual story. One of the coaches’ players had gotten an email from Vagnone offering a scholarship. There were three issues with that: 1. Vagnone, and most Division II schools, don’t recruit ...
When Logan and Jennifer Wagler dropped off their youngest son in Champaign, Ill., over the summer, their hope was that he would put on 5 pounds, adjust well to college life and work hard so he could find a way to contribute to the Illinois basketball team. They’ve always tried to be realistic about their three kids’ sports careers, not to look at things through “rose-colored glasses.” So they ...
A few weeks ago, right as the Seahawks were beginning their playoff run to the Super Bowl, coach Mike Macdonald noted that one way he eases anxiety is to remember all that he has to be grateful. “Just count your blessings, he said. Applied to football, Macdonald said when he’s worried about how the Seahawks might defend an opposing offense: “You walk in the locker room and you’re like, ‘We’ve ...
A Lincoln senator’s bill would remove the 16,000-seat cap at Pinnacle Bank Arena, potentially allowing more fans at Huskers games and major events.
