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Michigan State's Mike Sadler remembered as bright 'light'EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) Hundreds of people have turned out at Michigan State's Spartan Stadium to celebrate the life of former football player Mike Sadler, who died in a car crash in Wisconsin.Michigan State admissions director Jim Cotter offered opening remarks...

Ex-Florida QB Harris planning transfer to Tennessee StateNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Former Florida quarterback Treon Harris plans to resume his career at Football Championship Subdivision program Tennessee State.Tennessee State athletic department spokesman Jose Garcia said Friday via email that ''I can inform of his intention to enroll at Tennessee...

STATS FCS Senior Editor=Undrafted FCS players have NFL opportunitiesBy CRAIG HALEY(STATS) - Feeling overlooked and undervalued has a way of fueling FCS players heading into the NFL - especially the many who go undrafted and become even longer shots.Past awards, honors and statistics don't matter, even for a player...

STATS FCS Senior Editor=FCS draft roundtable - Part VBy CRAIG HALEY(STATS) - Tony Romo went from winning the 2002 Walter Payton Award as a senior at Eastern Illinois to being undrafted the next spring. Newly elected Hall of Famer Kurt Warner was undrafted out of Northern Iowa.Sleeper prospects are...

Beamer among 3 new playoff selection committee membersIRVING, Texas (AP) Former Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer, Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith and Robert Morris University President Chris Howard have been added to the College Football Playoff selection committee.The three new members will begin three-year terms next season....

Former USC football assistant coach John Jackson dies at 81LOS ANGELES (AP) John Jackson, who coached star tailbacks Marcus Allen and Charles White during their Heisman Trophy-winning seasons at Southern California, has died. He was 81.The university said Friday that Jackson died of complications following intestinal surgery on...

Jim Harbaugh and Urban Meyer in the Big Ten? It has a certain ring to it, like the glory days when Bo Schembechler and Woody Hayes battled for control of the league.That day is coming.The 51-year-old Harbaugh, a star quarterback for the Wolverines in the mid-1980s, has signed a...

Baylor WR Cannon says surgery on right knee went wellWACO, Texas (AP) Baylor receiver KD Cannon has had arthroscopic surgery on his right knee.Cannon said Tuesday on his Twitter account that ''surgery went well.'' He included a photo of his bandaged knee.Baylor officials had indicated the procedure was...

AP Sports WriterAresco: AAC's profile boosted by Big 12 expansion processBy PAT EATON-ROBBSTORRS, Conn. (AP) American Athletic Conference Commissioner Mike Aresco noted the difference on Tuesday.His conference, which a day before had been facing the potential loss of two or even four of its highest-profile programs to the...

Police seek teen, mom in killing of Missouri State playerLAS VEGAS (AP) Police are looking for a teen suspect and his mother in the shooting of a Missouri State University football player who witnesses say tried to stop a fight involving his sister and others in Las Vegas...

AP Sports WriterNo. 13 Houston looks to bounce back against TulsaBy KRISTIE RIEKENHOUSTON (AP) After a 5-0 start the No. 13 Houston Cougars had designs on crashing the College Football Playoff.A loss to Navy last week, however, ruined those plans. Now the Cougars need help to reach the...

Kentucky dismisses senior DE Bell for violating team rulesFRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) Kentucky coach Mark Stoops says senior defensive end Alvonte Bell has been dismissed from the team for an unspecified violation of team rules.Stoops and Louisville coach Bobby Petrino spoke during a Tuesday news conference at a charity...