- Jordan Mendoza USA TODAY
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.
- Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune
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…
- NOAH TRISTER ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Terrapins have had a desultory season under new coach Buzz Williams, losing 20 games for the first time since 1988-89, but they gave the Illini a battle on Sunday.
- SportsGrid
Dan Hurley, UConn's passionate coach, mirrors Bob Knight's fiery style. Ejected for unsportsmanlike conduct, he's seen as a vital character in college hoops.
- Eric Prisbell, The Dallas Morning News
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…
- Hadriana Lowenkron, Bloomberg News
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…
- Mike Sielski, The Philadelphia Inquirer
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 ...
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 ...
For every aspiring NFL player, the scouting combine is first and foremost a job interview.
Contrary to popular belief, the No. 10 Illinois men's basketball team's 95-94 loss at UCLA this past Saturday night was not the end of the world.
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, ...
What is happening on day one of the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis? FOX6's Tim Van Vooren brings you in the loop.
Bengals Head Coach Zac Taylor speaks at the 2026 NFL Combine in Indianapolis
Iowa men's basketball head coach Ben McCollum spoke critically about his team's performance following a 13-point loss in a "winnable" game against Wisconsin on Sunday.
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Brad Underwood's No. 10th-ranked Illinois basketball team entered Saturday's game at UCLA California dreamin' of a West Coast sweep.
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 ...
Illinois' first trip to play a Big Ten team in the 213 area code turned out to be a hit. Like one of those blockbuster movies or must-see TV series filmed in Hollywood.
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 ...
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 ...
Welcome back Kylan Boswell. After missing seven games with a broken bone in his right hand, the Champaign native returned to the Illinois lineup.