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The entire football world watched Shedeur Sanders and the Colorado Buffaloes upset the Horned Frogs of TCU last Saturday afternoon. Even the GOAT, Tom Brady, tuned in. Brady was so impressed with the Buffaloes' victory that he personally reached out to Shedeur, Deion's son and Colorado's starting quarterback. His message was a simple one: "Don't be satisfied" with just one win. Strive for more. "Don't be satisfied," Brady said in a text to Shedeur.

Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh reportedly will be suspended by the program following self-imposed sanctions. Harbaugh had been facing a four-game suspension from the NCAA, but negotiations collapsed seemingly at the 11th hour. It now appears UM will attempt to cut off the NCAA Committee on Infractions before it can get involved. The program will suspend Harbaugh for all three non-conference games, according to multiple Monday afternoon reports. No official announcement has come from the university. If the reported suspension decision holds, Harbaugh will miss games against East Carolina, UNLV and Bowling Green, and the star coach will then return...

College expansion has been a wild ride over the past year or so, and it doesn't appear to be ending anytime soon. The Big Ten has spearheaded the movement. The storied conference adds USC and UCLA in 2024. It may not be done, either. Barstool Sports' Jack McGuire is hearing a rumor that the Big Ten is adding four schools this week: Clemson, Florida State, Oregon and Washington. That would poach two universities from the ACC - arguably its top-two athletics programs - and two from the Pac-12 - arguably its best as well, even with USC and UCLA in...

Controversial NCAA swimming champion Lia Thomas is stirring the pot once again, this time by posting images to social media showing him modeling a militaristic t-shirt in support of the domestic terror group Antifa. Thomas is seen in the photo wearing dark sunglasses and the Antifa shirt, reading “Antifa Super Solder,” along with a bondage-style, military-esque leather gear. He is also holding up his hand in a mock peace sign. #Trans swimmer Lia Thomas, formerly William Thomas, has now embraced the #Trantifa branding in new photos posted on social media. Trans violent militancy is the current focus of #Antifa. They...

Former NFL quarterback Ryan Mallett, a third-round draft pick of the Patriots in 2011, has died in a drowning accident around Destin, Fla., the Arkansas-based website Deltaplex News reported Tuesday. He was 35. Mallett was transported from a beach to a hospital, and pronounced dead on arrival, sources told the outlet. SNIP “I am extremely saddened by Ryan’s tragic passing,” Patriots coach Bill Belichick said in a statement released by the team “My thoughts and prayers are with his family and the many people whose lives he touched.” “Tough one to swallow,” former Patriots receiver Julian Edelman tweeted. “Thoughts are...

An NCAA athlete has claimed she was scolded by ChatGPT when she asked the bot to shorten her tweet advocating against allowing trans women in women’s sports. “I was trying to explain [in the tweet] that I’m an NCAA athlete, and that it’s important to champion the voice of female athletes and to stand up against this ideological war that’s going on that’s putting women in danger and taking away the opportunities for scholarships,” Macy Petty, a volleyball player at Lee University, told Fox News Digital this week. MORE ON: TRANSGENDER Trans extremists refuse to face facts: Men are stronger...

Denny Crum, the winner of two college basketball national championships as head coach of Louisville, died Tuesday morning at the age of 86, the university said. Crum coached at Louisville from 1971-2001 and is one of 14 coaches to win at least two national championships in his career. Denny Crum coaches Louisville

California's San Diego State men's basketball team banned from paying for travel to Texas to play in program's first Final Four game A lawmaker in California is hoping to overturn the state's ban on government funding for travel to states with laws they find discriminatory. Since 2016, California has been steadily adding to its list of U.S. destinations barred from state-funded travel. The practice began in retaliation to North Carolina enacting a law requiring people to use the bathrooms that corresponded with their biological sex. State Sen. Toni Atkins is seeking to overturn the prohibition, saying that the cumbersome regulations...

The Elite Eight won’t feature any No. 1 seeds for the first time in NCAA men's tournament history. Nigel Pack’s hot shooting propelled No. 5 Miami to an 89-75 win over No. 1 Houston in the Midwest region on Friday night. Miami’s win came less than an hour after No. 1 Alabama lost to No. 5 San Diego State in the South region. SNIP Alabama and Houston entered Friday night’s Sweet 16 games as the last two No. 1 seeds remaining in the NCAA men's tournament. Purdue became just the second No. 1 seed to lose in the first round...

President Trump arrived today in Tulsa to see the NCAA Wrestling Championships. The crowd roared as he entered the event. This morning President Trump jumped on his plane and flew to Oklahoma. He was joined by Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin. President Trump has always seemed to love NCAA freestyle wrestling. The President arrived this afternoon. see tweet The crowd cheered when he entered the arena. see tweet Here’s another view of the crowd as the President entered. The fans and wrestlers appeared happy and shocked to see him. another tweet Trump received an ovation, meanwhile Kamala Harris was booed at...

DES MOINES, Iowa — The defending champion Kansas Jayhawks have been eliminated from the NCAA Tournament. Arkansas defeated Kansas 72-71 in the Round of 32, sending the top-seeded Jayhawks home.

After years of being a mediocre swimmer on the men’s team, Thomas woke up one morning and identified as transgender, transitioned, joined the women’s team, and started breaking records against his female teammates and tournament competitors. Since robbing real women of opportunities wasn’t enough for him, he also disrespected his teammates by exposing his male genitalia to them in the locker room. And now, Riley Gaines, a former teammate of Thomas, is calling for changes to be made by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). “We were not forewarned beforehand that we would be sharing a locker room with Lia....

Speaker McCarthy and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) lead a roundtable decrying the inclusion of transgender athletes in women's and girls' sports.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State (10-0, 3-0 B1G) will host Iowa (12-0, 5-0 B1G) on Friday, Jan. 27, in the second BJC Dual of the year for head coach Cael Sanderson's squad. The Nittany Lions and Hawkeyes face off at 8:30 p.m. in another B1G Network national telecast in the Jordan Center. This is Iowa's first trip to Penn State since the 2017-18 season. Penn State is coming off a superb two-win weekend in State College. The Nittany Lions dominated Michigan 30-8 in the first BJC Dual of the season last Friday, winning eight of ten matches including three...

Tomorrow, in San Antonio, Texas, the NCAA will hold its annual convention. But they’re going to have some visitors at the big event that the organization’s leaders likely won’t be happy to see. The group Concerned Women for America, among the country’s biggest women’s policy organizations, will be holding a rally to greet the leaders of the NCAA as they arrive, but they won’t be bringing flowers or asking for autographs. They will be handing in a petition with thousands of signatures from women around the country demanding that the NCAA stop allowing men who “identify” as women to compete...

If Jim Harbaugh is indeed staying with Michigan football for 2023, per his statement on Thursday afternoon, he’ll apparently have to deal with a Level I violation of NCAA regulations. The Detroit Free Press has confirmed that Michigan is expected to receive an official notice of allegations from the NCAA soon, charging the program with four Level II violations — those deemed “more than a minimal but less than a substantial or extensive recruiting, competitive or other advantage” according to a description adopted in 2019 — and Harbaugh himself with a Level I violation — a “severe breach of conduct”...

Alabama quarterback Bryce Young and linebacker Will Anderson Jr. made headlines last week when they decided that they will play in the Crimson Tide's Sugar Bowl matchup against Kansas State. In doing so, the two projected top-five picks in this spring's NFL Draft bucked a recent trend in college football of draft prospects sitting out of non-playoff bowl games in increasing numbers. We now know why the two stars have decided to suit up for Alabama one final time. Anderson and Young told reporters on Monday that they're trying to set an example of leadership and accountability for their Alabama...

Labor Relations Board Says Student-Athletes Should Be Classified as Employees Andy Berg Dec 16, 2022 The National Labor Relations Board asserted this week that the NCAA is breaking the law by refusing to classify student athletes as employees. According to Politico, NLRB officials in Los Angeles determined that the NCAA, along with the Pac-12 and University of Southern California are joint employers of athletes. NLRB general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo said Thursday that the NCAA's refusal to classify student-athletes as employees is in violation of the their labor rights. “This kind of misclassification deprives these players of their statutory right to...

This coming January, the NCAA will convene in Texas to decide the future of standardized testing requirements for student-athletes. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the NCAA and universities nationwide have taken steps to waive or modify admissions and eligibility criteria. With the pandemic coming to an end, it is yet to be determined which policies and requirements will be reimplemented by these institutions and which may be scrapped entirely. Division I and Division II college athletes are held to a specific set of academic eligibility requirements by the NCAA. These include a minimum GPA (2.3 for Division I...

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