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ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports Jenny Taft puts Skip Bayless in his place for criticizing Mike McCarthy’s weight Professional TV troll Skip Bayless got a taste of his own medicine on Wednesday. And he tried his best to not take it. At the conclusion of a segment on FS1’s Undisputed, during which Bayless questioned whether

7:30 AM ET Longtime Florida State booster David Mobley, an accountant in Atlanta, remembers telling Bobby Bowden that he had picked up one of the legendary coach’s former players, Tom Pridemore, as a client. “Tommy Pridemore’s momma made the best rabbit and biscuits I’ve ever had,” Bowden told Mobley. Pridemore, now 65, had played safety

Aug. 7—I do not believe in ghouls and ghosts, but I have always been intrigued by cemeteries, especially old cemeteries. Walking through a cemetery lets one’s imagination flow as you imagine the stories that those buried there could tell. As a teen, one of my best friends lived near a cemetery in Bisbee, Arizona. I

USATSI As the Southwest Conference was collapsing under the weight of its own scandal more than a quarter century ago, Oklahoma athletic director Donnie Duncan and Texas counterpart DeLoss Dodds had an idea: merge the Big Eight and choice SWC schools. Apart, neither side had enough televisions in their orbit to remain a major conference.

Liam sets to work in his pimped-up roaming office. (Liam Chester) A change of scenery and getting back to nature can do wonders for our mental health. But what if you could build a life which allowed you to explore new places every day, while maintaining the stability of your office job?  That’s just what

6:15 AM ET College football’s transfer portal received a lot of attention from coaches building and adding to their rosters this offseason. It’s not the transfer market of old with players who might not make an immediate impact or any impact at all. Nowadays, more high-end athletes are entering the portal, some of whom are

Getty Images Think you have a grasp on how absurd Nick Saban is at churning out first-round selections from his program? Well chew on this — more Alabama players were picked in the first round of the last two drafts than players from the entire Pac-12 conference. The Crimson Tide alone outdid the ACC too,

8:00 AM ET ESPN staff From navigating a tricky conference to a complete program overhaul, every new coach has challenges in college football. The hurdles new hires have to face in their maiden season can be seemingly endless in the ever-evolving sport but each job provides its own unique set of obstacles. Between the end

As fall camp begins across the country for college football teams, there are dozens of teams who will need to decide on a starting quarterback ahead of the start of the season in September. Here’s a quick look at 10 of the biggest QB competitions entering the 2021 season including a competition at Ohio State

7:45 PM ET ESPN staff The college football season will look plenty different in 2021. The college football power rankings? Not quite as much. Despite new quarterbacks at Alabama, Clemson and Ohio State, those three perennial powers find themselves in the top five. They are joined by Oklahoma and Georgia, which both return quarterbacks in

Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby and first-year Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff will meet Tuesday to discuss whether an alignment between the two conferences makes sense going forward, sources tell CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd. There are a number of options up for discussion between the two Power Five big-wigs ranging from a simple scheduling alliance to

LSU quarterback Myles Brennan suffered a left arm injury, putting his availability for the 2021 season in doubt, the Tigers announced Monday. Brennan, the program’s top passer from last season — despite playing in only three games — was competing for the starting job alongside sophomore Max Johnson.  “Myles Brennan suffered a severe injury that

Quinn Ewers, the top-ranked high school football player in America for the Class of 2022, is skipping his senior year to enroll early at Ohio State. His father, Curtis Ewers, informed Yahoo Sports of his son’s decision. Ewers’ move to college marks one of the first major reverberations – and unintended consequences – of the

7:05 AM ET When the 2021 NFL season opens, three starting quarterbacks will be former Oklahoma Sooners. Spencer Rattler is the odds-on favorite to win this year’s Heisman Trophy, which would make him the fifth Sooners quarterback to do so in the past 19 years. Lincoln Riley and his staff just got a commitment from

Watch list season continues. Another Oklahoma Sooner was recognized. Senior safety Pat Fields was named to the Wuerffel Trophy watch list earlier this week and was honored for his contributions not only on the field but off it. He is one of 93 players in the running for the Wuerffel Trophy entering 2021. The winner

12:50 PM ET ESPN staff [Editor’s note: The news that Texas and Oklahoma were planning to leave the conference — which became official on Friday — was a reminder that in college football, the past is never really the past. ESPN reporters Heather Dinich, Mark Schlabach and Dave Wilson show how the roots of this

The chances of the College Football Playoff growing to 12 teams in 2023, the first year officials have stated it could expand, appear to be diminishing. The combination of uncertainty in the environment and a building skepticism over the power being collected by ESPN and the SEC after recent realignment moves have prompted a more

USATSI The bureaucratic wheels of the NCAA are officially in motion toward a massive change in the governance of college sports as the NCAA’s Board of Governors announced Friday it will hold a “special constitutional convention in November” amid calls for a reduction in the NCAA’s role by its own president, Mark Emmert.  “As the