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Given that Big Ten coaches by and large are not a jovial bunch, at least when they're addressing a crowd of media, Franklin got everyone's attention right away.

Former University of Georgia champion sprinter Torrin Lawrence died early Monday morning in a car accident on Interstate 75 near Cordele, Ga.

Team after team passed on Ellington until Arizona made him the 187th player chosen in that draft.

The Colonels have moved junior Marquise Piton and sophomore LaJuan Smith from linebacker to defensive end.

Fifth-year Murray State coach Chris Hatcher has returned the program to OVC relevance thanks to his exciting "Hatch Attack" offense.

Wisconsin might have some rebuilding ahead as it replaces 13 starters from a team that went 9-4 last fall -- including 10 that went to the NFL.

The Tigers, who have produced such NFL players as Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, Richard Dent and Ed "Too Tall" Jones, ranked in the top 10 nationally in 2013 for total defense, scoring defense and turnovers gained.

Tennessee Tech coach Watson Brown is known for his offensive innovation, and he has some plans to use Darian Stone in a new hybrid "QW" quarterback-wing position.

No matter how this season unfolds, Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald insists there is no more unified team than his Wildcats.

Brown says he's not surprised and that it's just part of the business of being a kicker.

The 2014 Michigan State football team is scheduled to report for preseason camp Friday, four weeks before the Aug. 29 season opener against Jacksonville State.

Bengals DT Devon Still's daughter fights for life Lineman contemplated quitting football to be with daughter.

Bernard Pierce got a taste of what the next four weeks will be like when his walk off the field with a team doctor late in Saturday's practice became the talk of Ravens ' training camp.

Private coaches growing influence on college quarterbacks Private tutors are a growing influence on college quarterbacks, to mixed reactions of their coaches.

A woman was arrested after she stabbed a man in the chest at their Sumter home early Saturday morning, deputies said.

The offseason before Chip Kelly's second year at Oregon was all "turmoil and disaster," the way Mark Saltveit, author of "The Tao of Chip Kelly," recalls it.

Peyton Manning earned his record fifth MVP award in 2013 after perhaps the best statistical season in NFL history, breaking multiple NFL passing records, most notably the single-season marks for touchdowns and passing yards , while piloting an offense which led the NFL in scoring and totaled the most points in league lore.

Titans' Zach Mettenberger: 'Never fun to get punched' Sucker-punched, Titans rookie QB Zach Mettenberger ready to move on Check out this story on news-press.com: http://usat.ly/1rI563v "I get Roll-Tided a lot,'' the former LSU quarterback said with a smile on Saturday after the Titans completed their first practice of training camp.

Gaffney was Carolina's sixth-round draft pick out of Stanford and was expected to provide some depth in the backfield.

The former two-star recruit who got his only scholarship offer from Buffalo coming out of high school, worked his way into a first-round pick this spring and is being compared to some of the best pass-rushing linebackers in the league before he even puts his pads on for the first time.