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South Carolina’s arena DJ suspended 1 game for playing song by Flau’Jae Johnson’s late father
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina athletic department announced Sunday that the women’s basketball team’s arena DJ has been suspended for one game for the choice of music played at the end of the Gamecocks’ win over LSU on Friday. The DJ, who goes by the stage name DJ T.O.,...
Ivy League won’t join NCAA antitrust settlement, clings to academics and amateurismVideo
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The Ivy League will not join the antitrust settlement that will allow schools to pay their players directly, a decision that leaves the conference of eight elite academic institutions clinging to college sports’ amateur model even as it is increasingly abandoned by the NCAA’s biggest powers. Ivy...
Las Vegas to host 2027 College Football Playoff national championship game
LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas will host the 2027 College Football Playoff national championship game. The CFP made the announcement Friday, saying the title game will be played Monday, Jan. 25, 2027, at Allegiant Stadium. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority celebrated the news by releasing a video of...
Fayette County skier places in Junior World Championships moguls competition
Fayette County native Jessie Duda came away from the freestyle skiing Junior World Championships proud of her performance. Duda, 19, of Brownsville was one of 12 U.S. athletes to compete against dozens of freestyle skiers from across the world at the Junior World Championships, held the second week of January...
Ohio State celebrates and gets ready for all the changes coming to college football in 2025
ATLANTA — The early betting favorite to win next year’s national championship: Ohio State. The question nobody can really answer at this time: What sort of sport will the Buckeyes or anyone else return to when they kick it off again seven months from now. A program that won the...
AP Top 25: Ohio State, Notre Dame are 1-2 in final poll; Penn State finishes 5th
Ohio State was No. 1 in the final Associated Press Top 25 college football poll of the season Tuesday after beating Notre Dame for its first national championship since 2014. The Buckeyes (14-2) received every first-place vote following their mostly dominant run through the College Football Playoff. The Irish (14-2)...
Ohio State holds off Notre Dame comeback bid to win 1st national title since 2014
ATLANTA — The pass seemed to hang up there forever. Did it feel like seven weeks? Did it feel like 10 years? What a great debate for Ohio State fans to have forever. When that teardrop of a throw from Buckeyes quarterback Will Howard on third-and-11 finally landed, light as...
South Carolina gains a first-place vote as UCLA, Gamecocks, Notre Dame top women’s AP Top 25
South Carolina has so far cruised through the difficult part of its conference schedule and remained No. 2 in The Associated Press women’s basketball Top 25 on Monday, picking up a first-place vote to gain a bit of ground on top-ranked UCLA. The Gamecocks are in the midst of a...
Auburn a unanimous No. 1, Duke now No. 2; Michigan St into top 10, Louisville ends AP Top 25 drought
A wild week of upsets and court stormings led to a massive shakeup in the AP Top 25. One constant: Auburn. The Tigers were the unanimous pick at No. 1 in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll released on Monday, holding on to the top spot following a week...
Notre Dame’s Marcus Freeman seeks breakthrough for Black coaches on a historic day in AmericaVideo
ATLANTA — Notre Dame football coach Marcus Freeman felt more comfortable talking about the national championship his players had a chance to win Monday night than the history attached to it if they pull it off. Still, it’s hard to ignore the connections between Freeman’s fate — he is trying...
At Notre Dame, the first ‘America’s Team,’ they wake the echoes on a run to another national title
ATLANTA — Between Touchdown Jesus, “Win One for the Gipper,” Rudy, and, yes, even the forward pass, there are those who believe football wouldn’t quite be football without Notre Dame. With the Fighting Irish waking up the echoes and playing for a title again after a generation-long retreat from the...
After enduring threats and calls for his firing, Ohio State’s Ryan Day can go from ultimate low to high
ATLANTA — Emotionally, this has been a season unlike any other for Ryan Day. Less than two months ago, loud and influential media voices were calling for the firing of the nation’s winningest active coach in the wake of Ohio State’s fourth straight loss to Michigan. He received harassment and...
North Allegheny grad Leyna Rumpler rolling in college wrestling debut season
Former North Allegheny wrestler Leyna Rumpler’s first year in college is starting to look a lot like her last year in high school. The three-time Pennsylvania state finalist is off to a sizzling debut for the Baldwin Wallace women’s wrestling team, going 16-4 for the first-year Division III program with...
Duke’s romp-filled ACC start has Jon Scheyer pushing Blue Devils to keep ‘foot on the gas’Video
DURHAM, N.C. — Duke was rolling again against an ACC opponent. Yet Jon Scheyer wasn’t thrilled with how the third-ranked Blue Devils had started the second half as Miami put together a modest spurt. As Sion James brought the ball upcourt, Scheyer was ready for a chat with his team....
Notre Dame relishes underdog role in prep for Ohio State ‘D’
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Quarterback Riley Leonard and the Notre Dame offense have faced a fierce gauntlet of defenses in their path to the College Football Playoff title game. The Fighting Irish battled their way through Penn State (No. 7 in total defense), Georgia (No. 30) and Indiana (No. 2)....
NCAA adds women’s wrestling as its 91st and latest championship sport
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The NCAA added women’s wrestling as a sport Friday, bringing its total number of championships to 91. The sanctioning body approved the addition at the annual convention in Nashville, Tenn. Women’s wrestling had been under the “emerging sports for women” banner. Now, female athletes from Division I,...
Transfer portal got you down? One college AD suggests an ‘acquisition fee’ could fix some problems
NASHVILLE — The athletic director at a mid-sized school that’s making a splash this season has a modest proposal for taming what many say is a transfer-portal system run amok in college sports. Sean Frazier, the AD at Northern Illinois — remember, the team that beat national finalist Notre Dame...
Ohio State freshman star and former No. 1 recruit Jeremiah Smith lands in national championship gameVideo
COLUMBUS, Ohio — When Ohio State faced Texas in the Cotton Bowl, Jeremiah Smith was expected to shine. After all, he had piled up 290 yards receiving in two postseason wins and was looking like the star to stop for the rest of the College Football Playoff field. Instead, he...
Notre Dame, Ohio State mostly built rosters old-fashioned way
Ohio State and Notre Dame have reached the same destination with rosters built much the same way. The teams set to play in the College Football Playoff championship game Monday night in Atlanta sign elite high school recruiting classes year after year. That has been and continues to be their...
Quinn Ewers declares for NFL Draft; Arch Manning era begins at Texas
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas junior quarterback Quinn Ewers declared for the NFL Draft on Wednesday, ending a Longhorns career in which he led the program to a Big 12 championship and twice to the College Football Playoff but was not always embraced by a fan base eagerly waiting for Arch...
Urban Meyer joins Nick Saban in College Football HOF’s Class of 2025; former Steelers QB Terry Hanratty, WVU’s Steve Slaton also elected
Urban Meyer will join Nick Saban in the 2025 College Football Hall of Fame class, and Michael Vick and Michael Strahan are among the former players who will be inducted. The National Football Foundation announced Saban’s selection last week and the rest of the 18-player, four-coach class on Wednesday. Saban...
March Madness will pay women’s teams under a new structure approved by NCAA
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Women’s basketball teams finally will be paid for playing games in the NCAA Tournament each March just like the men have for years under a plan approved Wednesday at the NCAA convention. The unanimous vote by NCAA membership was the final step toward a pay structure for...
Ohio State has slowly paced itself on offense all the way to national title gameVideo
Ohio State has been purposely pacing itself on offense all season, huddling more and trying to limit the number of snaps in each game of what the Buckeyes hoped and anticipated would be a long run. “I know it sounds crazy, the huddle, it’s almost like going back in time,”...
Auburn rises to No. 1 in AP Top 25 after Tennessee loses, Georgia is ranked for 1st time since 2011
Auburn has climbed to No. 1 in The Associated Press men’s basketball poll for its second stint at the top in program history, while fellow Southeastern Conference program Georgia is in the rankings for the first time in 14 years. Bruce Pearl’s Tigers (15-1) claimed 60 of 62 first-place votes...
Son of Quaker Valley AD embarks on career in college basketball
Michael Mastroianni, son of Quaker Valley’s athletic director/boys basketball coach with the same name, graduated from Ohio State in 2021. Mastroianni majored in finance and had a minor in coaching education. Since college, he has juggled career paths in both basketball and business. He currently is the chief of staff...
