The New York Times – Sports:
Freeman’s first full season as a head coach will unfold in one of the most high-profile institutions in American sports. First up: No. 2 Ohio State, Freeman’s alma mater.
Category: Football (College)
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College Football Is Back. Don’t Even Try That Fake Slide.
The New York Times – Sports:
The play Kenny Pickett made famous has been banned. Defensive holding? Now an automatic first down. And the N.C.A.A. is still trying to rid the game of feigned injuries.
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Buffalo Bills Cut Matt Araiza Amid Rape Lawsuit
The New York Times – Sports:
The team said it had released the rookie punter Araiza after he was accused of raping a 17-year-old girl with two San Diego State teammates.
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Yaqub Talib, Brother of Former N.F.L. Star, Killed Youth Coach, Police Say
The New York Times – Sports:
He is accused of fatally shooting the coach after an argument at a game in Lancaster, Texas, the police said. His brother, the retired Super Bowl champion Aqib Talib, was also there, a witness said.
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Big Ten Gets More Than $1 Billion a Year in Record TV Deal
The New York Times – Sports:
The agreement splits the Big Ten’s sports between Fox, NBC and CBS, and is the richest annual deal for any college sports league.
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At Least 4 Players on Alabama’s ’60s Football Teams Had CTE
The New York Times – Sports:
At least four fixtures of Alabama’s great teams of the 1960s had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E., at their deaths. Researchers expect it in other players, too.
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Pac-12 Commissioner Keeps It Professional, but Pointed, After Defections
The New York Times – Sports:
George Kliavkoff, the Pac-12 commissioner, said the move by U.C.L.A. and U.S.C. to leave the conference for the Big Ten was a money grab that sold out athletes.
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Michigan Coach Jim Harbaugh Speaks at Anti-Abortion Event
The New York Times – Sports:
The remarks by Harbaugh, who was quoted as saying, “I believe in having the courage to let the unborn be born,” run counter to those expressed by the university’s interim president.
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Quarterback Known as ‘AR-15’ Changes Nickname, Citing Mass Shootings
The New York Times – Sports:
Anthony Richardson, a sophomore quarterback and rising star at the University of Florida, asked people to call him “AR” or not use a nickname at all.