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Associated Press Feb 12, 2025, 02:02 PM ET LAS VEGAS — UNLV senior offensive lineman Ben Christman, who transferred after last season from Kentucky, has died, the university announced. He was 21. Christman was found dead in an off-campus apartment Tuesday morning. The university said it didn’t have other details and that a cause of

Open Extended Reactions Ohio State is finalizing a deal to make veteran NFL coach Matt Patricia the school’s new defensive coordinator, sources told ESPN on Wednesday. The move to bring in Patricia comes with the corresponding internal promotion of secondary coach Tim Walton to the co-defensive coordinator role, sources said. Ohio State will also be

Associated Press Feb 11, 2025, 07:26 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PROVO, Utah — BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe is retiring at the end of the 2024-25 sports season after more than 20 years at the school. Holmoe helped BYU join the Big 12 Conference in 2023 after a decade as an FBS independent. He

Open Extended Reactions The University at Buffalo is rewarding coach Pete Lembo in the wake of his 9-4 debut season as coach of the Bulls. Lembo receives an additional year on his contract through the 2029 season, the school announced. Buffalo also gave Lembo a raise, sources tell ESPN. The deal includes a significant increase

Max OlsonFeb 11, 2025, 07:00 AM ET Close Covers the Big 12 Joined ESPN in 2012 Graduate of the University of Nebraska Open Extended Reactions THE GOAL GOING into December was to spend $5 million. That was the price tag that Cody Campbell, Texas Tech‘s billionaire booster and the leader of The Matador Club NIL

Associated Press Feb 10, 2025, 11:52 AM ET Open Extended Reactions COLUMBUS, Ohio — Former Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel, who also has served as president at Youngstown State University, has been nominated by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine to be the state’s next lieutenant governor. The Republican governor announced the pick at a news

Feb 8, 2025, 07:26 PM ET Open Extended Reactions North Carolina is expected to hire Brian Belichick as safeties coach, a source confirmed to ESPN’s Pete Thamel on Saturday. Belichick, the youngest son of new Tar Heels coach Bill Belichick, spent the past five seasons as the New England Patriots‘ safeties coach before leaving in

Associated Press Feb 7, 2025, 05:13 PM ET HARTFORD, Conn. — The brother of the late New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was sentenced Friday to 18 months of prison time already served for threatening to carry out a shooting at the University of Connecticut and to kill three people, including a judge, in

Turron DavenportFeb 7, 2025, 10:07 AM ET Close Turron Davenport covers the Tennessee Titans for ESPN. Turron is a former collegiate football player at Cheyney University and is a native of Philadelphia, and he has authored/co-authored four books. You can catch Turron on ESPN Radio on his show “Talking with TD” and you can follow

Adam RittenbergFeb 7, 2025, 11:44 AM ET Close College football reporter; joined ESPN in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Open Extended Reactions Colorado‘s board of regents has approved a contract extension for defensive coordinator Robert Livingston, who had an integral role in the team’s improvement last season. The new two-year deal makes Livingston the highest-paid

Associated Press Feb 7, 2025, 07:42 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The president of North Carolina’s public university system has temporarily suspended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill trustees’ authority over athletics for acting beyond their designated duties. In a Jan. 16 memo, system president Peter Hans wrote to

Field Level Media Feb 7, 2025, 01:51 PM ET Two-time Super Bowl champion Howard Twilley, a member of the Miami Dolphins‘ undefeated 1972 team, has died at 81. The National Football Foundation announced that Twilley died Wednesday but did not provide a cause of death. Before landing in Miami, the wide receiver played at Tulsa.

Feb 7, 2025, 01:01 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Deion Sanders has added another Hall of Famer to his coaching staff at Colorado. The Buffaloes announced Thursday night that former NFL great Marshall Faulk has joined the team as its new running backs coach. Faulk knows a little about the position. He ranks 12th all

Mark SchlabachFeb 6, 2025, 10:04 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions A federal judge granted Wisconsin cornerback Nyzier Fourqurean a preliminary injunction to play another season for the Badgers on Thursday, after the player argued in a federal

Open Extended Reactions After leading Ohio State to the national title, Buckeyes coach Ryan Day has agreed to a new contract that is set to make him the country’s second-highest-paid head coach. Ohio State announced in a statement Thursday morning that Day and the school have agreed to a new seven-year deal. The school said

ESPN News Services Feb 5, 2025, 08:17 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Deion Sanders stayed at Colorado after the Dallas Cowboys showed interest in him for their head coaching vacancy early last month. But the pro game is, well, too “Prime Time” even for Sanders these days, he said on his TV talk show, “We

Adam RittenbergFeb 5, 2025, 05:41 PM ET Close College football reporter; joined ESPN in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Open Extended Reactions Ohio State is set to promote Brian Hartline as its primary offensive coordinator, replacing Chip Kelly, and will have him handle playcalling, sources confirmed to ESPN on Wednesday. Hartline, a former Ohio State

Eli LedermanFeb 5, 2025, 09:23 AM ET Close Eli Lederman covers college football and recruiting for ESPN.com. He joined ESPN in 2024 after covering the University of Oklahoma for Sellout Crowd and the Tulsa World. Open Extended Reactions Five-star offensive tackle Ty Haywood — the top remaining uncommitted prospect in the 2025 class — signed