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Associated PressStanley, Iowa shift passing attack from tight ends to WRsBy JOHN BOHNENKAMPIOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) Iowa's passing game last season was all about the tight ends.Which made sense, since T.J. Hockenson and Noah Fant would go on to be first-round selections in the NFL draft.It's different this...

SEATTLE (AP) Washington is reducing its overall athletic department operating budget by 15% for the 2020-21 fiscal year and all the school’s head coaches have agreed to minimum 5% pay reductions. Athletic director Jennifer Cohen announced the moves Friday and said they will save the school around $13 million. She...

AP College Football WriterLSU's Ed Orgeron is AP college football coach of the yearBy RALPH D. RUSSOEd Orgeron of LSU is The Associated Press Coach of the Year after leading the top-ranked Tigers to a Southeastern Conference championship and their first College Football Playoff appearance.Orgeron received 33 of 56...

AP Sports WriterTennessee aiming to avoid repeat of last season’s finishBy STEVE MEGARGEEKNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Tennessee enters its final two games of the regular season in the same situation it faced last year.The Volunteers hope the similarities end there.Tennessee (5-5, 3-3 SEC) has won three straight games and...

AP Sports WriterNo. 5 Texas A&M looks for 5th straight win in visit from LSUBy KRISTIE RIEKENLSU trounced Texas A&M 50-7 last season in its march to the national title.But this week as the Tigers prepared to visit the fifth-ranked Aggies, it wasn't that game that they were thinking...

Weber State eyeing another Big Sky title run in 2020(Stats Perform) - A rugged start to the 2020 schedule will prepare Weber State for its Big Sky schedule as it tries to secure a fourth straight conference title.The Wildcats, who reached the FCS semifinals for the first time this...

Associated PressWashington St has questions at QB now that Falk has moved onBy NICHOLAS K. GERANIOSSPOKANE, Wash. (AP) After years of enjoying the record-setting exploits of quarterback Luke Falk, Washington State faces big questions looking toward next season.Falk has graduated and is trying to find a spot in...

Former Florida State football star gets prison sentenceBy Associated PressTALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) A former star linebacker on Florida State's 1993 national championship football team has been sentenced to 54 months in federal prison and must pay more than $1 million in restitution after pleading guilty earlier this year...

Dick Tomey, former Arizona head football coach, dies at 80TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) Dick Tomey, the winningest football coach in University of Arizona history, has died of cancer. He was 80.Tomey's family and the university said he died Friday night in Tucson. He was diagnosed with lung cancer in...

7 Arkansas St. athletes positive for COVID-19, no symptomsJONESBORO, Ark. (AP) Seven Arkansas State athletes tested positive for COVID-19 and are self-isolating for 14 days, Chancellor Kelly Damphousse said Thursday.The seven athletes are from three sports, and all were asymptomatic. They learned the results Wednesday night.Damphousse said contact...

Drake names Todd Stepsis as head coachDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) Drake has promoted defensive coordinator Todd Stepsis to head coach.The Bulldogs announced the promotion Friday of the 41-year-old Stepsis, who spent the past five seasons running Drake's defense. Stepsis replaces Rick Fox, who resigned on Dec. 10.Stepsis, who...

Former Oklahoma All-American DE Jimbo Elrod killed in crashCHANDLER, Okla. (AP) James ''Jimbo'' Elrod, an All-American defensive end who played on Oklahoma's 1974 and 1975 national championship teams, died in a car wreck Monday, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said. He was 62.The single-vehicle crash happened at about 3:45...