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AP Pro Football WriterColorado AD wants next head coach to share his commitmentBy ARNIE STAPLETONBOULDER, Colo. (AP) After Mel Tucker's midnight blindside, Colorado athletic director Rick George says the Buffaloes' next head football coach has to share his passion for the university and the state.Someone who isn't going...

Alabama players, Saban appear in anti-racism videoTUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) The University of Alabama football team released an emotional video on Thursday speaking out against racism and ending with the message that “all lives can’t matter until Black lives matter.”Head Coach Nick Saban and many prominent players, both Black...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Louisville says that senior running back Michael Dyer is academically ineligible and will miss the Cardinals' Belk Bowl game on Dec. 30 against Georgia.Dyer, the former Auburn star who transferred to Louisville last year from Arkansas Baptist College, was the fourth-leading rusher for the Cardinals...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) Kansas State football players say they will boycott all team activities until administrators create a policy that would allow a student to be expelled for “openly racist, threatening or disrespectful actions.” The move that most players announced Saturday on social media follows a tweet by a student...

Starting TE Neuville likely out for year at No. 16 WisconsinMADISON, Wis. (AP) Starting tight end Zander Neuville will likely miss the rest the season for No. 16 Wisconsin because of a left knee injury.Coach Paul Chryst announced the injury on Thursday after the Badgers (3-1, 1-0 Big...

Marist QB White not returning(STATS) - Marist's all-time leading passer Mike White will not use his final season of eligibility this year.White, who sat out his true freshman season in 2014, is scheduled to graduate after the spring semester. He's been Marist's starting quarterback the last three seasons, and...

Associated PressFormer Ohio State football coach Earle Bruce dies at 87By MITCH STACY and RUSTY MILLERCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Earle Bruce embraced the difficult task of following his mentor, Woody Hayes, as Ohio State's head football coach. In his later years, he became a much-loved patriarch of the program...

AP Sports WriterWith bodies banged up, Buckeyes coach issues 'call to arms'By MITCH STACYCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) The victory over Penn State was not enough. Urban Meyer woke up Sunday still troubled. So much so, the Ohio State coach gathered his players for a ''call to arms'' meeting.The message:...

Five-star DT Jordan Burch signs with South CarolinaCOLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) Highly regarded, five-star defensive tackle Jordan Burch has ended the suspense and signed with South Carolina.Burch, a 6-foot-5, 275 pound tackle from Columbia, had committed to the Gamecocks in December, but did not send in his letter of...

Associated PressWriter Krakauer denied records on college player's rape caseBy MATT VOLZHELENA, Mont. (AP) Author Jon Krakauer's five-year quest to find out how and why Montana's top higher education official intervened to prevent a star college quarterback's expulsion over a rape accusation stalled Wednesday when the state Supreme...

AP Sports WriterHeisman candidate Mayfield powers Oklahoma's hot startBy MITCH STACYCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Not only did Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield beat Ohio State in Columbus and avenge last year's embarrassing Buckeyes blowout, he also powered his way into the Heisman Trophy conversation.Mayfield is on a roll, and so...

Associated PressAuthor Krakauer wins order for release of rape case recordsBy MATT VOLZHELENA, Mont. (AP) A judge has ordered the conditional release of records about a University of Montana rape case to author Jon Krakauer after a four-year dispute that pitted student privacy against the public's right to...