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AP College Football WriterWhich team is most likely to be next 1st-time CFP teamBy RALPH D. RUSSOIn four seasons of the College Football Playoff a total of nine programs have filled the 16 semifinal spots. Which teams could be next to crack into the football's final four?AP voter Matt...

Associated PressChinese court hands US football coach 4-year prison sentenceBy GERRY SHIHBEIJING (AP) A Chinese court sentenced former American football player Wendell Brown to four years in prison Thursday for being involved in a bar fight, a punishment his lawyer and an activist called excessive.Brown, a native of...

AP Sports WriterCTE Q&A: What happened to Tyler Hilinski, what can be doneBy JIMMY GOLENThe news that Tyler Hilinski, the Washington State quarterback who shot himself with a rifle in January and left a suicide note, was diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy this week left researchers again warning about...

Associated PressEx-Baylor athletic director: Black athletes made scapegoatsBy JIM VERTUNOAUSTIN, Texas (AP) The former athletic director at Baylor University alleges that regents schemed to make black football players scapegoats for a decades-long problem of sexual assault at the nation's largest Baptist school, and that he resigned rather than...

Associated PressEx-Baylor athletic director: Black athletes made scapegoatsBy JIM VERTUNOAUSTIN, Texas (AP) The former athletic director at Baylor University has claimed regents schemed to make black football players scapegoats for a decades-long problem of sexual assault at the nation's largest Baptist school.Excerpts taken from Ian McCaw's June 19...

Longtime Vols broadcaster Ward honored at tribute ceremonyKNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Tennessee athletic director Phillip Fulmer praised John Ward for bringing ''life and feeling to our living rooms'' during a tribute ceremony for the longtime Volunteers football and men's basketball broadcaster.Ward died June 20 in Knoxville at the age...

AP Sports WriterCTE Q&A: What happened to Tyler Hilinski, what can be doneBy JIMMY GOLENThe news that Tyler Hilinski, the Washington State quarterback who shot himself with a rifle in January and left a suicide note, was diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy this week left researchers again warning about...

Associated PressEx-Baylor athletic director: Black athletes made scapegoatsBy JIM VERTUNOAUSTIN, Texas (AP) The former athletic director at Baylor University alleges that regents schemed to make black football players scapegoats for a decades-long problem of sexual assault at the nation's largest Baptist school, and that he resigned rather than...

Associated PressFormer Penn State president Spanier loses criminal appealBy MARK SCOLFOROHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Former Penn State president Graham Spanier lost an appeal Tuesday of his misdemeanor conviction for child endangerment over his handling of a 2001 complaint about Jerry Sandusky showering with a boy in the football team...

Associated PressFormer Penn State president Spanier loses criminal appealBy MARK SCOLFOROHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Former Penn State president Graham Spanier lost an appeal Tuesday of his misdemeanor conviction for child endangerment over his handling of a 2001 complaint about Jerry Sandusky showering with a boy in the football team...

Associated PressFormer Penn State president Spanier loses criminal appealBy MARK SCOLFOROHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) An appeals court is upholding a misdemeanor child endangerment conviction against former Penn State president Graham Spanier over his handling of a 2001 complaint about Jerry Sandusky showering with a boy in the football team...

Associated PressFormer Penn State president Spanier loses criminal appealBy MARK SCOLFOROHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) An appeals court is upholding a misdemeanor child endangerment conviction against former Penn State president Graham Spanier over his handling of a 2001 complaint about Jerry Sandusky showering with a boy in the football team...