Category: Sports and Recreation

Big Ten media days: Illinois’ Bret Bielema says SEC wants to live in 2005; Tony Petitti talks CFP expansion

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… CHICAGO — The Big Ten kicked off its three-day football media event Tuesday at the Chicago Hilton with a news conference from commissioner Tony Petitti. One-third of the Big Ten’s 18 coaches, including Illinois’ Bret Bielema, also held news conferences, and players from their schools met with reporters. The remaining coaches and players will speak Wednesday and Thursday. As the Big Ten gets …

Gophers football picked to finish 10th in Big Ten poll

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… The Gophers football team finished in a tie for seventh place in the Big Ten Conference in 2025 and are not expected to finish as high this fall. The 16th annual Cleveland.com poll of the conference’s reporters has Minnesota slated to finish 10th in the 18-team league in 2025. Gophers received 268 total points in the poll, with Ohio State, Oregon and Indiana picked to finish in the top three. …

Mike Bianchi: Florida making billion-dollar stadium gamble; new coach Jon Sumrall must make it pay off!

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… ORLANDO, Fla. — Steve Spurrier always called this time of year “the talkin’ season.” It was one of those classic Spurrier expressions that perfectly captured the annual ritual of SEC Media Days and preseason news conferences. Every coach is undefeated. Every quarterback has taken the next step. Every transfer is exactly what the program needed. Every new strength and conditioning coach has …

Bianchi: SEC boss Greg Sankey just told Congress: Our way or the highway!

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Greg Sankey insists the Southeastern Conference isn’t trying to use the threat of a breakaway as leverage. Maybe not. But when the commissioner of college football’s most powerful conference publicly acknowledged Monday at SEC Media Days in Tampa that league presidents are having “real” conversations about leaving the rest of college athletics if Congress doesn’t fix the Protect College Sports …

Mountain West unveils football season’s new look with Vegas flair

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… LAS VEGAS — For the Mountain West, being dumped never appeared to feel so good. Two weeks after five schools officially seceded, the Mountain West was host to a two-day bash to celebrate the coming football season. What happens in Vegas … was shared and reposted on social media. Under the guise of “media days,” the conference invited the head coach and four players from each of the 10 member …

UH football coach Timmy Chang feels he has the QB and pieces to make a title run

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… LAS VEGAS — Entering his fifth season as Hawaii’s head football coach, Timmy Chang believes he has collected the parts for a championship drive. Athletic director Matt Elliott has finalized plans to provide the Rainbow Warriors with chartered flights for all six road games. Elliott also detailed a plan in which the football program will receive at least $2.5 million in revenue sharing. Last …

50 storylines, 50 days until 2026 South Dakota high school football season starts

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Jul. 2—The arrival of July means a new athletic year has begun for high school sports, and the march to a new football season in South Dakota is well underway. Thursday, July 2, signified the 50-day countdown to the 2026 high school football season in South Dakota, which will kick off on Friday, Aug. 21. Here are 50 storylines, facts and questions to consider ahead of the new high school …

Whitman reiterates preference for 24-team CFP field

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Jun. 26—CHAMPAIGN — The debate continues in college football with no clear-cut indication which way it will go. At issue: How many teams should make the playoffs? The answer depends on who you ask. On Thursday during the annual Josh Whitman roundtable, I put the question to the decade-long Illinois athletic director. Knowing his bread is buttered in the Big Ten, Whitman went with the number …

Virginia Tech hires pedigreed Brian White from FAU as athletic director

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Brian White, who gave Dusty May his first head-coaching job and worked alongside Lane Kiffin for two seasons, is Virginia Tech’s next athletic director, the school announced Monday evening. White has led the department at Florida Atlantic for eight-plus years and has overseen a 625% increase in donations since 2021, according to the university’s website. In 2024, he negotiated a stadium …

‘Mr. Waianae’ established a culture that made the community proud

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Decades after their football careers ended, former players still are following the lessons from “Mr. Waianae.” Larry Ginoza, one of the most successful coaches in Hawaii high school football history, died this past Saturday. He was 89. As Waianae High School’s head coach for 20 seasons through 1984, Ginoza won 189 games, third most on Oahu behind Cal Lee and Wendell Look. The Seariders won …