Jan 13, 2023 Former Arkansas and NFL running back Peyton Hillis has been taken off a ventilator a week after he reportedly rescued family members during a swimming accident, according to a social media post by his girlfriend. Hillis’ girlfriend, Angela Cole, posted on Instagram on Thursday that Hillis is “on the road to recovery”
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3:06 PM ET Less than a week after winning a second straight national championship, Kirby Smart’s chops on the recruiting trail for Georgia haven’t let up. Four-star junior safety Jaylen Heyward is the latest to come on board after committing on Friday. Heyward, from Rockledge High School (Florida), is No. 40 in the 2024 ESPN
4:27 PM ET Pete Golding is leaving his job as Alabama defensive coordinator for the same position at Ole Miss, sources told ESPN on Friday. Golding had been at Alabama under Nick Saban since 2018 and served as the Crimson Tide’s defensive coordinator for the past four seasons. Golding will replace Chris Partridge as Ole
10:19 AM ET ESPN News Services Two Georgia players, cornerback Kelee Ringo and tight end Darnell Washington, are headed to the NFL draft after helping the Bulldogs win their second straight national title. Both made the expected announcements on their Instagram accounts Thursday. Ringo will long be remembered for a pick-six interception that sealed Georgia’s
10:00 AM ET ESPN staff After a second consecutive three-loss season, Dabo Swinney is remaking the Clemson program. Last year, the Tigers head coach promoted from within when former coordinators Brent Venables (Oklahoma) and Tony Elliott (Virginia) got head-coaching jobs. But after firing offensive coordinator Brandon Streeter on Thursday, ESPN sources say Swinney will name
1:19 PM ET Oklahoma State defensive coordinator Derek Mason announced Thursday that he was taking a “sabbatical from coaching in college” after one season with the Cowboys. Mason wrote in a Twitter post that after 30 consecutive seasons in football, he looked forward to spending time with his family to rest and “reflect on opportunities
5:24 PM ET Clemson fired offensive coordinator Brandon Streeter, the school announced on Thursday, and will hire TCU offensive coordinator Garrett Riley, sources told ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg and Chris Low. Streeter served just one season as the Tigers’ full-time playcaller, though he’d been with Clemson as an assistant coach since 2015, and he played quarterback
10:22 AM ET CHICAGO — The Chicago Bears named Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren as their president and CEO on Thursday. Warren will replace outgoing president and CEO Ted Phillips, who announced his retirement last September following the 2022 season. “Kevin is a man of integrity, respect and excellence, all of which are critical core
10:50 PM ET ESPN News Services LOS ANGELES — Charles White, the legendary USC tailback who won the Heisman Trophy in 1979, died Wednesday. He was 64. USC announced the death of White, who is still the Trojans’ career rushing leader with 6,245 yards. The nine-year NFL veteran died of cancer in Newport Beach, California,
5:21 PM ET Northwestern has initiated an investigation into an allegation of hazing within its football program, the school said in a statement to ESPN on Wednesday. The school was made aware of the allegation after the 2022 season, according to the statement. The university has hired an independent attorney, Maggie Hickey of the law
8:00 AM ET ESPN staff From the early heroics of the Fun Belt to Tennessee‘s resurgence to a 200-1 long shot making the College Football Playoff National Championship, this college football season had it all. USC reemerged as a threat from the West Coast behind Caleb Williams‘ Heisman-worthy season before falling to upstart Tulane in
9:41 PM ET Quarterback Spencer Rattler announced Tuesday on a social media video he plans to return to South Carolina for the 2023 season. Rattler transferred to South Carolina last season from Oklahoma and played his best football at the end of the year. He passed for 792 yards and eight touchdowns with just two
10:56 PM ET The team that couldn’t win a national championship for more than four decades can’t stop winning them. After winning its first national title since 1980 last season, Georgia crushed TCU 65-7 on Monday night in the College Football Playoff National Championship presented by AT&T. The Bulldogs became the first team in the
2:10 AM ET INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Angelo Pizzo knows a thing or two about great underdog stories. He wrote the screenplays for “Hoosiers” and “Rudy,” two of the most iconic sports films of all time. He knows a good storyline. Pizzo, 75, sees a lot of Rudy Ruettiger — the walk-on who played three snaps
12:28 AM ET William E. Ricks The Georgia Bulldogs are again on top of the college football world after winning the 2023 College Football Playoff National Championship. 1 Related UGA defeated the TCU Horned Frogs 65-7, fueled by an outstanding performance from Stetson Bennett. He finished with 304 yards passing, four passing touchdowns and two
4:04 PM ET A surge of big bets on heavily favored Georgia began showing up at sportsbooks Monday in the hours leading up to the College Football Playoff National Championship game against underdog TCU. Georgia was a 13-point favorite over TCU on Monday afternoon at Caesars Sportsbook. The line had grown to Georgia -13.5 at
7:00 AM ET STETSON BENNETT WAS — shall we say — not himself when he sat down for an interview with “Good Morning America” just hours after beating Alabama and winning the national championship a year ago. The conquering hero of Georgia football, who was the game’s MVP and led the program to its first
2:34 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Two recent high-profile coaching hires in the SEC have received public backlash and raised questions about the optics they present, but commissioner Greg Sankey said Sunday that the conference played a limited role in the processes and that the hiring decisions were made at the campus level. Auburn hired