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Michigan president promises 'rigorous' investigation of athletic department
As Michigan conducts an investigation into its own athletic department in the wake of the firing of football coach Sherrone Moore, the school is willing to "act swiftly" if new findings warrant more terminations. Interim university president Domenico Grasso shared that sentiment and laid out the requirements for the next football coach in a statement Wednesday. (
CBS Sports)
Eli Manning has a hilarious post about Lane Kiffin-Ole Miss split
Eli Manning is weighing in on the messy situation involving his alma mater. Former Ole Miss football coach Lane Kiffin departed from the university to accept the same position with rival school LSU. It was an extremely acrimonious breakup (to say the least). During his introductory press conference for LSU, Kiffin made a big claim about angry Ole Miss fans. (
Larry Brown Sports)
Roy Kramer, former SEC commissioner who created championship game, dead at 96
Roy Kramer, who as SEC commissioner led the conference’s expansion from 10 schools to 12 and created the SEC championship game, died on December 4. He was 96. A Tennessee native, Kramer was football coach at Central Michigan (1967-77) and athletics director at Vanderbilt (1978-90) before taking over as the SEC’s sixth full-time commissioner. (
AL.com)
‘Loopholes have won the day’: Cap? What cap? Spending on players growing even after NCAA settlement
The settlement of a class-action lawsuit against the NCAA and its most powerful conferences this year was supposed to cap the amount of money schools could pay athletes and establish stricter guidelines for NIL payments. But the introduction of direct revenue sharing with athletes and new reporting requirements hasn’t stopped increased spending. (
WRAL.com)
After Notre Dame's numerous tantrums, what's the school's endgame? A divorce from the ACC?
The more Notre Dame squawks like a 7-year-old mad at their parents because they didn’t get a stuffed animal at the fair, the more reasonable it is to wonder whether there’s something more going on besides frustration over a CFP snub. Complaints on both sides of the Notre Dame-ACC relationship have started to spill into the public discourse. (
Yahoo! Sports)
Meet Bob Chesney, UCLA football’s new ‘ultimate type of competitor’
Bob Chesney, who was officially named UCLA’s head football coach on Saturday morning after compiling a 21-5 record in two seasons at James Madison, is a man of first impressions. When Darwin Breaux first met Chesney, he was a do-it-all player for his father, Robert Chesney Sr., at Our Lady of Lourdes Regional High School in Edgewood, Pennsylvania. (
Los Angeles Daily News)
College Football Playoff 2025: Going inside every first-round matchup
No. 9 Alabama at No. 8 Oklahoma. This is one of two rematches. OU's 23-21 win in Tuscaloosa in November wasn't the most aesthetically delightful game, but it was vital to how the rest of the season played out. Bama gets a shot at redemption after a late-season fade, and OU gets to show off its brilliant home crowd and a speedy, opportunistic defense. (
ESPN.com)
NASCAR mourns the loss of Greg Biffle, family in tragic plane crash in North Carolina
Greg Biffle was picked by NASCAR as one of its top 75 drivers in history. But he is perhaps best remembered for his tireless work helping others as a helicopter pilot. Biffle was in the air again Thursday, aboard a small jet that crashed at the Statesville airport north of Charlotte. He was believed to be among seven people killed, including his wife and two children. He was 55. (
Associated Press)
Is there a place for walk-ons in the future of college sports?
In football, there had been a limit of 85 scholarships, but Division I rosters averaged more than 146 players for the 2024-25 academic year, according to data compiled by Opendorse. Now rosters would be capped at 105. Baseball would lose nine spots from its average; women's soccer would lose five. The players on the outside looking in? Walk-ons. (
ESPN.com)
Lane Kiffin’s messy departure from Ole Miss shows he has not changed at all
Being an adult means making hard decisions. It also means living with the fallout from those decisions. Lane Kiffin didn’t want to do either. He didn’t want to be pressured into making the decision to leave Ole Miss for LSU. He then didn’t want to lose the chance to coach his Ole Miss team through the College Football Playoff while working as head coach at LSU. (
NBC Sports)