Heisman Watch: College Football's Top Contenders And Sleepers
College football's top players compete for the Heisman Trophy. Here are the contenders as well as a few sleepers.
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College football's top players compete for the Heisman Trophy. Here are the contenders as well as a few sleepers.
Forget much of what you know about college football. The chase for one of the four playoff spots begins this weekend with a handful of high-profile games.
It has been a slow, steady realization that it just wasn't happening for Gordon Beckham.
Curiously, the Irish get worked up about academic fraud but not death or sexual assault.
Tackling a six foot linebacker is best done in style.
The power conferences will now have the ability to create their own rules.
"I wouldn't say these changes solve the safety problems, but they do reduce the risks," a lead attorney said.
"There's a lot of change coming," Bob Bowlsby says.
SEC coaches are crying foul as coaches from the North help coach (recruit) at camps down South.
"We have to change a culture that says, 'suck it up,'" President Obama said.
Northwestern AD Jim Phillips will soon find himself at the forefront of a controversial issue.
Word on the street is that the big cheeses at the NCAA and NBA have agreed on a new age requirement for playing pro ball. NBA commissioner Adam Silver, who really doesn't need the NCAA's approval, is increasingly vocal on the matter.
Northwestern football players cast secret ballots Friday in an on-campus hall adjacent to their home stadium on whether to form the nation's first union for college athletes. Just don't expect results any time soon.
This is time for the kind of innovation and pioneering of which they speak.
Last night, the Huskies cut down the nets in Dallas after beating Kentucky 60-54 to win the school's fourth national championship. Consider that Kentucky needed four straight late escapes to reach the final and you get a sense for what kind of Tournament this was.
Shabazz Napier scored 22 points and Connecticut won its second NCAA title in four years, beating all those Kentucky freshmen 60-54 in the championship game Monday night.
Aaron Harrison hit a 3-pointer with 5.7 seconds left to lift Kentucky to a one-point victory over Wisconsin.
The national semifinals drew 79,444 AT&T Stadium, beating the previous record of 78,129 when Kentucky beat Michigan State in a regular-season game at Ford Field in Detroit on Dec. 13, 2003.
DeAndre Daniels had 20 points and 10 rebounds to help UConn snap Florida's 30-game win streak.
Jabari Parker is ready-made for the NBA, so he needs to go to secure his future.
Members of a group trying to unionize college athletes sought out potential congressional allies Wednesday as they braced for an appeal of a ruling that said full scholarship athletes at Northwestern University are employees who have the right to form a union.
Frank Kaminsky had 28 points and 11 rebounds for Wisconsin, rallying the Badgers to a 64-63 overtime victory against Arizona to advance to the Final Four.
Scottie Wilbekin scored 14 of his 23 points in the first half as Florida became the first team to advance to the Final Four with a 62-52 win over the 11th-seeded Dayton Flyers.
Aaron Harrison hit a 3-pointer for the go-ahead score with 39 seconds left and Julius Randle made a pair of clutch free throws to lift Kentucky to a 74-69 victory over their in-state rivals.
Branden Dawson had 24 points and 10 rebounds as Michigan State beat top-seeded Virginia 61-59 to advance to East Regional final.
