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STATS FCS Senior Editor=2016 FCS vs. FBS: Big SkyBy CRAIG HALEY(STATS - Cinderella is allowed out more often than in the month of March. During college football season, FCS programs are adept at drawing national attention as they seek upsets of the larger FBS.Many of the games are played...

Division III football player faces murder chargeKNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) A football player at Division III Maryville (Tennessee) College faces a first-degree murder charge in the shooting death of a 16-year-old girl.Knox County Sheriff's Office officials announced Wednesday that William Riley Gaul, a freshman wide receiver, was arrested late...

Norvell promotes Dickey to Memphis offensive coordinatorMEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) Memphis coach Mike Norvell has made some changes on his coaching staff, including promoting Darrell Dickey to offensive coordinator.Norvell announced the moves Sunday.The Memphis coach also promoted Kenny Dillingham to a full-time assistant coach for quarterbacks and tight ends....

STATS FCS Senior Editor=Missouri Valley still atop FCS conference rankingsBy CRAIG HALEY(STATS) - Dreams of FBS riches not only have taken national champions away from the FCS this decade, but programs on the rise as well.The moves of Appalachian State and Georgia Southern from the Southern Conference - they...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) Iowa running back Derrick Mitchell Jr. is leaving the program and plans to play his final season at another school. The Hawkeyes announced Wednesday that Mitchell will graduate in May and then transfer with a year of eligibility remaining. Mitchell began his Iowa career as a wide...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The Utah State athletes injured in a highway accident apparently were not wearing seatbelts.The Utah Highway Patrol said Saturday preliminary indications show that was the case.Four football players and a former softball player were hurt in Trenton on Friday when a tractor-trailer collided with...

AP Sports WriterWoman Joe Mixon hit says she rejected his advancesBy CLIFF BRUNTA woman struck by Oklahoma running back Joe Mixon says she rejected his advances before he punched her and broke bones in her face.Mixon was suspended from the team for a year after the July 2014 incident...

Illinois' Turner carted off field, Gophers' McGhee ejectedCHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) Illinois receiver Malik Turner was carted off the field late in the first quarter against Minnesota.Turner was hit by Minnesota safety Duke McGhee while making a catch and remained on the field for several minutes. Turner was placed...

AP College Football WriterMidseason Report: Pleasant surprises, flops, halfway HeismanBy RALPH D. RUSSOThe first half of the 2016 college football featured the emergence of a new star quarterback, the re-emergence of an old Pac-12 power and the end of an era at LSU.Texas is back! Nope.Houston to the playoff!...

AP College Football WriterPurdue fires coach Hazell after 3-plus seasons and 9 winsBy RALPH D. RUSSOPurdue fired coach Darrell Hazell on Sunday midway through his fourth season, ending his tenure with the worst winning percentage of any Boilermakers coach in 95 years.Hazell was 9-33 overall (.220) since taking over...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) The latest in the trial of Florida State running back Dalvin Cook, accused of punching a woman in the face outside a bar (all times local):---11:20 a.mA woman says Florida State running back Dalvin Cook boasted that he would be able to buy her when...

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) Tom Izzo's basketball team is undefeated, ranked No. 1 in the nation, and right now has to settle for second billing on its own campus.That's how high the bar has been raised at Michigan State.It's the football Spartans who are tantalizingly close to a...