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AP Sports WriterNew dad Bielema focuses on making Arkansas betterBy DAVID BRANDTHOOVER, Ala. (AP) Arkansas coach Bret Bielema has a lot going on in his life these days.Barely 48 hours after becoming a new father, Bielema was on the podium Monday at Southeastern Conference media days, waxing on...

The Latest: Commissioner talks about integration of SECHOOVER, Ala. (AP) The Latest on SEC media days (all times local):1:25 p.m.Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey opened media days with a history lesson on the league schools' timeline of integration in athletics.Sankey spoke at length in his opening remarks...

The Latest: SEC ensures can't miss its media days in HooverHOOVER, Ala. (AP) The Latest on SEC media days (all times local):12:10 p.m.People in Hoover, Alabama, shouldn't have any doubt what event the city is hosting this week.There's a six-story Southeastern Conference logo on the side of...

STATS Writer=Taylor looks to lead Western Illinois' new-look defenseBy TAYLOR BECHTOLD(STATS) - Brett Taylor has received plenty of accolades for his on-field work delivering blows to oncoming blockers, chasing down opposing ball carriers and prying away turnovers.The Western Illinois inside linebacker, however, is also interested in watching and learning...

Dates of FCS preseason polls, teams(STATS) - The anticipation for college football will rise significantly this week as the conferences begin to get people talking about the 2017 season ahead.Beginning with the Southland Conference preseason team on Thursday, 12 of the 13 FCS conferences will release their preseason poll...

STATS Writer=Taylor looks to lead Western Illinois' new-look defenseBy TAYLOR BECHTOLD(STATS) - Brett Taylor has received plenty of accolades for his on-field work delivering blows to oncoming blockers, chasing down opposing ball carriers and prying away turnovers.The Western Illinois inside linebacker, however, is also interested in watching and learning...

Sankey, Orgeron highlight opening session of SEC media daysHOOVER, Ala. (AP) Opening day should be anything but boring at the Southeastern Conference's annual media gathering.Exuberant Ed Orgeron will be one of the coaches to take the podium Monday at the SEC media days in suburban Birmingham, Alabama.Commissioner Greg...

Longtime assistant coach Bob Elliott dies at 64; had cancerIOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) Longtime assistant football coach Bob Elliott has died following a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 64.Iowa, where Elliott played and later coached, announced Sunday that he had died a day earlier.Elliott spent 38 years...

Former Tennessee linebacker Johnson arrested on DUI chargeKNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) A.J. Johnson, the former Tennessee linebacker who is awaiting an aggravated rape trial, has been arrested on a DUI charge.Knoxville police said Johnson was charged with a DUI and cited for simple possession early Saturday.Police say they stopped...

Michigan St dismissed ex-players accused of sexual assaultEAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) Three former Michigan State football players accused of sexually assaulting a woman earlier this year have been dismissed from the university.School spokesman Jason Cody said Thursday that Josh King, Donnie Corley Jr. and Demetric Vance were dismissed...

UNC reinstates suspended player after dismissal of chargesCHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) North Carolina has reinstated suspended football player Allen Artis after misdemeanor charges against him for sexual battery and assault on a female student were dismissed.Athletic director Bubba Cunningham announced the decision in a statement Thursday.Artis was indefinitely...

Associated PressBaylor settles lawsuit with woman who alleged sexual assaultBy JIM VERTUNOAUSTIN, Texas (AP) Baylor University has agreed to settle a federal lawsuit with a former student who accused the nation's largest Baptist school of fostering a ''hunting ground for sexual predators'' and mishandling her alleged attack in...