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AP Sports WriterTech companies, like college athletes, eager to cash inBy ERIC OLSONImagine a major-college quarterback with a sizable social media following who posts entertaining and informative updates about his life on and off the field.Now imagine a restaurant hiring him as its pitchman and paying him $500 or...

AP College Football WriterHouston hires coach Dana Holgorsen away from West VirginiaBy RALPH D. RUSSOHouston has hired West Virginia's Dana Holgorsen as its coach, ending his eight-year run with the Mountaineers.Holgorsen was 61-41 and 33-30 in the Big 12 as he helped guide West Virginia through the transition from...

AP Sports WriterIt's college football's season of hope - unless you're VandyBy PAUL NEWBERRYATLANTA (AP) It's the season of hope in college football.Then there's Vanderbilt.The Commodores are the St. Louis Browns of the gridiron, a team that looks hopelessly overmatched and out of place in the mighty Southeastern...

Gabe Rivera, Texas Tech star left paralyzed, dies at 57By The Associated PressGabe Rivera, the overpowering ''Senor Sack'' lineman for Texas Tech who was paralyzed in a car accident while a Pittsburgh Steelers rookie, has died. He was 57.The university on Tuesday confirmed Rivera's death. He had been living...

STATS FCS Senior Editor=2017 FCS vs. FBS: Big SkyBy CRAIG HALEY(STATS) - Coming off a 2016 season in which their 10 wins over FBS programs tied for the fourth-most in a season, FCS programs hope to make a mark again in 2017.Big Sky teams are involved in 16 of...

Norfolk State forced to vacate 2011 MEAC title(STATS) - Norfolk State's 2011 MEAC football championship has been vacated as part of the NCAA sanctions lobbied against the university for inaccurate reporting of some student-athletes' eligibility, the NCAA and the school announced Thursday.The athletic department has been placed on two...

AP Sports WriterBuffalo RB Patterson expected to play in Camellia BowlBy JOHN WAWROWBUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) Buffalo's Jaret Patterson is expected to play against Marshall in the Camellia Bowl on Friday, a week after one of the nation's leading rushers hurt his right knee.Coach Lance Leipold said Patterson should...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) San Jose State has dismissed incoming freshman defensive back Bomani Bassette-Hairston from the program following an undisclosed on-campus incident.Coach Ron Caragher said Friday that after a thorough review he decided it was best that Bassette-Hairston leave the program.Caragher said he wishes Bassette-Hairston the best...

AP Sports WriterArkansas, Mississippi State hope transfers boost QB playBy DAVID BRANDTHOOVER, Ala. (AP) Two Southeastern Conference Western Division programs hope transfer quarterbacks can give them a boost in the standings.Mississippi State brought in Penn State graduate transfer Tommy Stevens to compete for the starting job with Keytaon...

STATS FCS Senior Editor=2019 Southland Conference spring outlookBy CRAIG HALEY(STATS) - Southland Conference power Sam Houston State's step backward last season seemed to allow almost every other program in the conference to step forward.That's overstating reality, of course, but it created the kind of parity that commissioner Tom Burnett...

The UTSA and the ARIZONA ST will both be gunning for a victory on 9/1/2018 at 10:30 PM when they meet in a game matchup. UTSA vs ARIZONA ST When: 10:30 PM ET, Saturday, September 1, 2018 Where: Sun Devil Stadium, Tempe, Arizona ROT TEAM PS OU ML 187 UTSA -18.5 (-110) 54 (-110) 830 -1550 188 ARIZONA ST TV: 10:30 PM LINE: -18.5 PREDICTION: ARIZONA ST , UTSA Oddsmakers currently have the...

Duke reinstates K Austin Parker 5 months after dismissalDURHAM, N.C. (AP) Duke has reinstated specialist Austin Parker to the football team, five months after he was kicked off the team.Coach David Cutcliffe announced Parker's reinstatement Wednesday, saying the kicker-punter regained the trust of the coaching staff.Parker was dismissed...