CFB

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) Nebraska opened practice Thursday night with the competition at running back the featured position battle.Terrell Newby came out of the spring as the front-runner in the race to succeed three-time 1,000-yard rusher Ameer Abdullah. But the surprise arrival of heralded recruit Jordan Stevenson of Dallas...

CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) Deshaun Watson took the shotgun snap, backpedaled a few steps and launched a perfect pass to receiver Mike Williams. Moments later, Watson faked the handoff and burst through the line downfield.It has been a strong start for preseason Atlantic Coast Conference player of the year...

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) Hunter Knighton once went a week without sleeping, afraid to close his eyes because the nightmares were inevitable. Panic attacks were common. Memories were hazy. Breathing was a struggle.The dark, scary moments are still in the recesses of his mind.But he's about to take...

CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson will play this season with a brace on his surgically repaired left knee.Watson is the Atlantic Coast Conference preseason player of the year. He tore his ACL last November, had surgery the next month and has been recuperating since. He is...

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) After a tumultuous offseason at UCLA, coach Jim Mora and the Bruins are eager to get back to football.The Bruins were in the news for all the wrong reasons in recent months, from the suspension and reinstatement of offensive line coach Adrian Klemm to the...

Florida State Seminoles coach Jimbo Fisher dismissed freshman quarterback De'Andre Johnson from the team Monday night, hours after the state's attorney's office released video showing Johnson punching a woman in the face last month at a Tallahassee bar. Fisher made the announcement in a brief statement released by FSU on...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) - It was as big a send-off as Texas A&M University can give.The opportunity to pay tribute to A&M's first Heisman Trophy winner John David Crow drew more than 500 family members, friends, fellow coaches and fans to the floor of Reed Arena.Former A&M women's...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Police say hip-hop music mogul Diddy has been arrested on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles.UCLA police spokeswoman Nancy Greenstein confirms that the 45-year-old - whose real name is Sean Combs - was taken into custody by campus officers Monday. Greenstein didn't...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - Danny Villanueva, who was one of the NFL's first Latino kickers and a pioneer of Spanish-language television, has died. He was 77.Family members and officials at New Mexico State University, where Villanueva was a member of the athletic hall of fame, confirmed that he...