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AP Sports WriterIowa transfer Oliver Martin in limbo as season approachesBy LUKE MEREDITHIOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) Iowa fans spent years hoping to see native son Oliver Martin catching passes for the Hawkeyes.They'll eventually get their wish - although no seems to know if Martin's playing career at Iowa...

AP College Football WriterAP Top 25 Podcast: Who can derail Oklahoma in Big 12?By RALPH D. RUSSOOklahoma will try to make it five straight Big 12 championships with yet another transfer quarterback, while Texas tries to build on its 2018 breakout.On the latest AP Top 25 College Football Podcast,...

STATS FCS Senior Editor=FCS 2019: Southland PreviewBy CRAIG HALEY(STATS) - It's quicker to name the teams not expected to be in the Southland Conference title race than the ones that should be there.Like last season, when the top seven of 11 teams were separated by two games before Nicholls...

Oklahoma DB Norwood out for the seasonNORMAN, Okla. (AP) Oklahoma defensive back Tre Norwood is out for the season with an undisclosed injury.Coach Lincoln Riley made the announcement Friday.Norwood started all 14 games last season and was the projected starter at nickel back this season. Riley said the...

Duke WR Bobo out indefinitely with broken collarboneDURHAM, N.C. (AP) Duke receiver Jake Bobo is out indefinitely with a broken clavicle.Team spokesman Art Chase said Bobo had surgery Friday, a day after he broke his right collarbone during practice.Bobo had 10 catches for 167 yards and a touchdown...

Ex-Vandy player's sentence unchanged after rape case appealNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) A Tennessee appeals court has upheld most of the convictions against a former Vanderbilt football player in the rape of an unconscious female student.News outlets report the 17-year sentence for 26-year-old Brandon Vandenburg was unchanged Thursday in Nashville....

AP Sports Writer'Redemption' is word for revamped Ohio State defenseBy MITCH STACYCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) The Ohio State defense seemed to hit rock bottom in a confounding loss to unranked Purdue in the eighth game last season.But the weaknesses that led to the 49-20 blowout by the Boilermakers on...

Ex-Vandy player's sentence unchanged after rape case appealNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) A Tennessee appeals court has upheld most of the convictions against a former Vanderbilt football player in the rape of an unconscious female student.News outlets report the 17-year sentence for 26-year-old Brandon Vandenburg was unchanged Thursday in Nashville....

Pitt DE Rashad Weaver tears ACL, will miss entire seasonPITTSBURGH (AP) Pittsburgh junior defensive lineman Rashad Weaver's season is over.The school announced Friday that Weaver will miss all of 2019 after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during practice Thursday. Weaver led the Panthers with...

AP Sports WriterTennessee receivers say they want to follow Martin's exampleBy STEVE MEGARGEEKNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Tennessee's wide receivers savor the opportunity to play for their new position coach because they appreciate what Tee Martin accomplished during his own playing career.Martin was the starting quarterback on Tennessee's 1998 national...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) A state judge has ordered Jerry Sandusky be taken to a central Pennsylvania courtroom next month for resentencing on his 45-count child sexual abuse conviction, six months after an appeals court ruled mandatory minimums had been improperly applied. Judge John Foradora filed an order Wednesday that scheduled...

PETERSONEUGENE, Ore. (AP) When Justin Herbert looks at the arc of his career at Oregon, he sees it through the lens of the team as a whole. The Ducks went 4-8 under Mark Helfrich in Herbert's freshman year. Then there was Willie Taggart's lone season at the helm before Mario...