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Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin fined $25K for retweet about refs

OXFORD, Miss. (UPI) -- The Southeastern Conference has fined Ole Miss football coach Lane Kiffin $25,000 for retweeting a Twitter post, which called the conference a "disgrace" for "atrocious" officiating. Kiffin took to Twitter after Ole Miss lost to Auburn on Saturday in Oxford, Miss. He saw a tweet that was critical of referees for not correctly calling an Auburn fumble late in the fourth quarter of Saturday's game. The play in question came with 5:43 remaining in the contest. […]

todayOctober 27, 2020 53

Football News

Vandy-Missouri football game postponed due to COVID

COLUMBIA, Mo. (UPI) -- The Vanderbilt-Missouri football game scheduled for Saturday in Columbia, Mo., has been postponed to a later date, making it the first Southeastern Conference matchup to be moved this season because of the coronavirus. Vanderbilt announced Monday in a news release that the postponement of the game was due to a lack of scholarship athletes. According to the school, the team's shortage of available scholarship players was due to the quarantining of individuals with positive test results […]

todayOctober 12, 2020 60

Football News

SEC releases full football schedule; Alabama-Georgia headlines slate

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI) -- The Southeastern Conference unveiled its entire 2020 football schedule Monday as it continues to move forward with its fall sports season amid the coronavirus pandemic. A matchup between Alabama and Georgia on Oct. 17 at Bryant-Denny Stadium highlights the SEC's upcoming slate. It's the first regular-season game between the Crimson Tide and Bulldogs in Tuscaloosa, Ala., since Nick Saban's first season as Alabama's head coach in 2007. Other highlights include Alabama and defending national champion LSU […]

todayAugust 18, 2020 105

General News

Big Ten postpones football, fall sports due to COVID-19

ROSEMONT, Ill. (UPI) -- The Big Ten Conference on Tuesday postponed fall sports -- including football -- for the 2020 season due to the coronavirus pandemic. The conference is the first among the Power Five conferences to announce a postponement of fall sports due to COVID-19. The ACC, SEC, Big 12 and Pac-12 are expected to announce fall plans later this week. Men's and women's cross country, field hockey, men's and women's soccer, and women's volleyball are the other fall […]

todayAugust 11, 2020 34

General News

GMAC authority postponing some fall sports over looming COVID concerns

INDIANAPOLIS -- The Great Midwest Athletic Conference Presidents’ Council has postponed the fall championship segments in football, men’s soccer, women’s soccer and volleyball, as decided on Monday morning. The conference schedule and championships in each of these high contact risk sports, as defined by the NCAA Resocialization of Collegiate Sport guidelines, will be moved to the spring season. Cross country, golf and tennis will resume activities The Great Midwest is maintaining the cross country championship segment in the fall as […]

todayAugust 10, 2020 65

National

Big Ten coaches and players fighting to save 2020 season

Coaches and players are fighting back in the face of potential cancellation of the Big Ten football season. Reports broke on Monday morning that the decision had been made and an announcement would be coming on Tuesday. The Big Ten features Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State, Rutgers, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue, and Wisconsin. https://twitter.com/HuskerSports/status/1292895821676056576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw More than a dozen players, all from Power Five conferences, released a statement saying they want to play in 2020. […]

todayAugust 10, 2020 55

National

Texas Tech fires WBB coach Marlene Stollings after abuse claims

LUBBOCK, Tex. (UPI) -- Texas Tech University has fired women's basketball coach Marlene Stollings after a dozen players left the team and a news report that detailed alleged abuse and harassment by coaches. The Intercollegiate, a college sports investigative media outlet, obtained exit interviews from players of the last two seasons by way of public records requests. USA Today published the results of those interviews Wednesday as part of an investigative report. Ten players, two former assistant coaches and two […]

todayAugust 7, 2020 84

National

How college football will resume gameplay in a post-COVID era

College football has a looming kick-off date of Aug. 29. Many of the sport’s decision-makers remain optimistic about an on-time start. The optimism is in the face of athletic departments throughout the country dealing with positive COVID-19 tests. At Houston, activities came to a halt after six athletes tested positive for COVID-19 and were symptomatic. Schools have gone through a myriad of measures to create thorough plans to keep student-athletes safe. Compliance of CDC guidelines in college football In spite […]

todayJune 20, 2020 56

National

Notre Dame women’s basketball coach Muffet McGraw retires

NOTRE DAME, Ind. (UPI) -- Notre Dame women's basketball coach Muffet McGraw, a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame, announced Wednesday that she is retiring from coaching after 33 years at the school. "It has been my great honor to represent the University of Notre Dame these past 33 years, but the time has come for me to step down as your head basketball coach," McGraw said in a statement. […]

todayApril 23, 2020 84

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