NCAA Football

Charles Barkley endorsed Auburn football coach Bryan Harsin on Wednesday at the Regions Tradition ProAm golf tournament in Hoover, Alabama. “I’m a big Coach Harsin fan,” Barkley said. “I think what he did takes tremendous courage, and I’m really, really excited.” Harsin came to Auburn this spring after seven years as the head coach at

No position in college football will be more scrutinized this offseason than quarterback with the freedom created by the transfer portal and the NCAA allowing immediate eligibility for those players switching schools. Unlike other positions, quarterbacks can’t easily share time with other players so the pressure is on to exhibit top play early in careers.

12:08 AM ET LSU quarterback TJ Finley, who started five games for the Tigers as a freshman in 2020, is set to enter the NCAA’s transfer portal, he told WAFB-TV on Wednesday. Finley’s name does not yet appear in the portal, but he told WAFB, “I plan on taking a few trips to other schools

CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) Clemson defensive end Justin Foster, who missed the 2020 season due to COVID-19 and asthma, has changed his mind about leaving the Tigers and will rejoin the program. Foster, a 6-foot-2, 275-pound senior from Shelby, North Carolina, had decided to give up the college game because of lingering affects of contracting the

7:50 PM ET Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher took a playful shot at Alabama coach Nick Saban during an appearance at the Houston Touchdown Club on Wednesday afternoon. According to audio obtained by the Houston Chronicle, Fisher was asked what it would take to beat Alabama other than the retirement of the 69-year-old Saban. “We’re

5:19 PM ET Clemson defensive end Justin Foster, who announced in February that he was ending his football career because of long-haul COVID-19 symptoms, will be rejoining the team in June, he told ESPN on Wednesday. Foster said he spoke to head coach Dabo Swinney Tuesday and told him he isn’t sure when or if

USATSI Even after a record-tying showing in the first round of the 2021 NFL Draft (six picks) and breaking the record for number of players selected in the first two rounds (eight), Alabama has enough young talent ready to step in that the Crimson Tide have ended the spring practice season on top of CBS Sports’ post-spring

USATSI Spring football offers a clean slate every year. Optimism is in the air and everyone’s 0-0. Though not every team holds a traditional spring game, a lot of the storylines are consistent. Can you get through the spring without injury? Can you find a few standout players? Can you settle some position battles? In

The top NCAA Division I men’s golf teams in the country now know if and where they are playing regionals. The NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Committee announced Wednesday the fields for each of the six regionals, which will be played May 17-19 at The Sagamore Club in Noblesville, Indiana; Seminole Legacy Golf Club in Tallahassee,

7:24 AM ET The contrast between the LSU and Alabama teams that played for the national championship in January 2012 and those that captured the past two national titles isn’t lost on anyone who studies college football. Offense and quarterback play drive championship teams more than ever. But defense isn’t an afterthought. While the 2020

PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) Washington State athletic director Pat Chun has received a contract extension through 2026 that will eventually increase his base salary to $700,000 with annual increases beginning next year. University President Kirk Schulz announced the deal for Chun on Tuesday. The new contract comes after Chun’s name had surfaced as a candidate for

The Telegraph Giro d’Italia teams 2021: Full list of teams and riders starting in Turin As with all WorldTour races, each of the 19 teams that make up the top-flight of professional cycling receive an invite and in the case of the Giro d’Italia, all teams are contracted to race the first grand tour of

All across the Southeastern Conference, administrators are counting on full stadiums for football this fall. After a season that lacked the pageantry and ambiance of a typical in-person experience, 2021 should look and feel like something close to normal and signal a real turning of the corner on the COVID-19 pandemic. Like the rest of

Tweener. That’s what some would have called Divine Deablo ahead of this year’s draft. A guy who came to college as a wide receiver, switched to safety, even playing some cornerback, but has the makings of a linebacker at the NFL level. “Interesting guy,” one scout told The Athletic of Deablo during the pre-draft process.

Getty Images Not every ACC team held a spring game this year, but every coach in the league has been extremely vocal about how different they feel this May after getting in a full spring practice. Optimism is brimming at every program for the simple reason that they got to put in the work that

USATSI The era of college athletes profiting off of their name, image and likeness is rapidly approaching, and several schools are developing strategies to assist their student-athletes in this new era of college athletics. Now the biggest brand in college football just joined the fray.  Alabama announced Tuesday that it has created a program called

7:49 AM ET When Trevor Lawrence stepped off the plane and onto his new home soil of Jacksonville, Florida, this past Friday, his first instinct wasn’t to smile or give a thumbs up. It wasn’t to shout “Duuuval!” and yank a Jacksonville Jaguars cap atop his head. Instead, as the quarterback reached out with his

One of my favorite exercises each year is revisiting the “Way Too Early” mock drafts that were released around this time of the calendar. For example, last August I put out my first mock draft, and in reviewing that article for a piece I’m working on a few things stood out to me: I nailed