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AP College Football WriterParsons, Sewell among AP preseason All-Americans not playingBy RALPH D. RUSSOPenn State linebacker Micah Parsons and Oregon tackle Penei Sewell are among 11 players selected to The Associated Press preseason All-America first team who are not slated to play this fall.The team was selected by 47...

STATS FCS Senior Editor=25 names to know in FCS 2019By CRAIG HALEY(STATS) - Spring practices have whet the appetite for the 2019 FCS season, which will be full of top teams and players.Maybe this season won't even be a North Dakota State runaway with the talent spread so wide...

Associated PressSandusky granted hearing in appeal of sex abuse convictionBy MARK SCOLFOROHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) A judge on Thursday ordered hearings to let former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky develop more information as he tries to overturn his child molestation conviction.Judge John Cleland said the three days...

UNC graduate DB Wolfolk ruled academically ineligibleCHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) North Carolina graduate defensive back Myles Wolfolk has been ruled academically ineligible for the 12th-ranked Tar Heels.Team spokesman Jeremy Sharpe said Thursday that Wolfolk ''fell behind'' in his graduate work during the past semester. He had graduated in...

AP College Football WriterCollege football players, parents, unite to be heardBy RALPH D. RUSSOAs college sports leaders worked to figure out how to play football through the pandemic, former NFL star Chris Hinton and wife Mya noticed something was missing when they watched and read news coverage. It was...

North Dakota, Sam Houston set future games(STATS) - North Dakota and Sam Houston State announced a home-and-home series for the 2018 and 2019 seasons on Friday.The first-ever meeting between the schools will be played Sept. 15, 2018, at Bowers Stadium in Huntsville, Texas. The return game is set for...

AP Sports WriterEx-Michigan tight end Chuck Christian says he was abusedBy LARRY LAGEANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) The first former University of Michigan football player to publicly say that a team doctor abused him believes he would have sought medical help sooner for what has become late-stage cancer if...

Oklahoma running back Trey Sermon injured in spring gameNORMAN, Okla. (AP) Oklahoma running back Trey Sermon went down with a leg injury Saturday during the first quarter of the Sooners' spring game.Sermon was injured on a tackle by safety Patrick Fields. He was helped off the field after...

AP Sports WriterTennessee to start redshirt freshman Guarantano at QBBy STEVE MEGARGEEKNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Tennessee will start redshirt freshman Jarrett Guarantano at quarterback in place of Quinten Dormady as the Volunteers seek to bounce back from their first shutout loss since 1994.Vols coach Butch Jones said Wednesday that...

Associated PressProsecutors ask judge to order Graham Spanier report to jailBy MARK SCOLFOROHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Pennsylvania prosecutors want a judge to order former Penn State president Graham Spanier to begin serving a county jail sentence for endangering children by the way he responded to a complaint that Jerry...

Associated PressHawaii aims for 2nd straight win over Pac-12 facing BeaversBy KALANI TAKASEHONOLULU (AP) Oregon State coach Jonathan Smith expected plenty of growth from his team coming off a 2-10 record last year and one game hasn't done anything to change those expectations.The Beavers (0-1) will look to...

AP Sports WriterMarshall remembers worst US sports disaster 50 years laterBy JOHN RABYHUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) After a plane crash killed most of Marshall University's football team in 1970, school administrators could have resorted to the simplest choice - dropping the losing sport altogether.They didn't. They couldn't bring themselves...