UCF’s football program’s conditioning activities are rigorous “but within the range normal to other Division I football programs,” according to a review ordered after a player died and another collapsed last year. The review released Friday was done by an attorney hired by the university and recommended better communication between team physicians and the athletics [...]
Nebraska football coach Bo Pelini signed a contract extension Monday following a 9-4 season, boosting his annual salary to $1.85 million. The contract runs through February 2014 and makes him the sixth-highest paid coach in the Big 12. When Pelini was hired by the Cornhuskers in 2007, his five-year contract called for a salary of [...]
The glasses were thick and smoky, and the Nike sneakers were as jet-black as ever. Yup, Joe Paterno’s back. No cane in sight, the 82-year-old Hall of Famer paced the Penn State practice field Friday, the second day of spring drills. Four months after hip replacement surgery, Paterno pronounced himself back at 100 percent, with [...]
Mike Bellotti is stepping down as Oregon’s coach to become the school’s athletic director, and offensive coordinator Chip Kelly will be promoted to head coach. Bellotti, who has coached the Ducks for the last 14 seasons, takes over his new position July 1, replacing athletic director Pat Kilkenny. Kelly becomes coach on March 30, the [...]
Larry Coker is back in college football. The coach who led the Miami Hurricanes to the 2001 national championship was introduced Friday as the first head coach of the Texas-San Antonio football program, which is expected to begin play in the 2011 season. Coker was met by a raucous ballroom filled with students and supporters, [...]
Florida State may have to forfeit some of coach Bobby Bowden’s 382 wins and will be on probation for the next four years as part of its punishment for a widespread academic cheating scandal. The Seminoles will have to give up two scholarships this recruiting season and one the following year. Other sports will lose [...]
West Virginia and LSU have agreed to a home-and-home football series starting in 2010. West Virginia athletic director Ed Pastilong said Thursday that the Mountaineers will travel to Baton Rouge, La., in 2010, and the Tigers will come to Morgantown in 2011. LSU went 8-5 last season, beating Georgia Tech 38-3 in the Chick-fil-A Bowl [...]
Michigan season-ticket holders are getting a price break for the 2009 football season. Athletic director Bill Martin told the Associated Press on Thursday a season-ticket holder will pay $50 on average for a ticket after paying $53.57 last year. “In this challenging time economically, this is our way of thanking our fans who have supported [...]
Texas Tech and coach Mike Leach agreed Thursday on a new contract after months of contentious negotiations. Leach signed the contract shortly after he and Kent Hance, the university’s chancellor, met for about two hours Thursday afternoon to hammer out an agreement. Hance said the negotiating part lasted only about 15 minutes. “Me and my [...]
He knew it had to end some time, some way, somehow. But he never expected it to be so soon, so sudden, so out of the blue. It was Nov. 3 of last year, two days after Tennessee’s sixth loss of the season and Phillip Fulmer, shocked and exasperated, sat down in front of a [...]
