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BY J. BRADY MCCOLLOUGHSTAFF WRITERAUG. 12, 2023 5 AMThe Kelly Plan. It has a nice ring to it, but it will never happen.Chip Kelly’s idea about how to steer the college sports enterprise away from fully losing its soul — having top football schools be classified as independent and playing by their own rules, allowing the rest of the sports to be grouped together regionally as they used to be — is simply ...

For the first time in a couple weeks following what was the a historic blunder for the conference, there seems to be signs of life coming out of Pac-12 country.Something that the college sports world likely would have never imagined following the news a couple weeks ago that saw Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, and Utah all leave the conference. The exodus left just four programs ...

UPDATED AUGUST 12, 2023 9:27 AMSouth Carolina football held its seventh preseason practice Friday afternoon. Members of the media were allowed to watch the first five periods. Here are some news and notes from the viewing window:▪ Tight end transfer Trey Knox, a presumptive starter at tight end, was not spotted at practice. A team spokesman didn’t have any official updates as to Knox’s whereabouts.▪ ...

UPDATED AUGUST 12, 2023 1:42 PMMiami quarterback Tyler Van Dyke can still heave it long, Xavier Restrepo is the same dependable slot man, outside receiver Jacolby George picked up where he left off in the spring and several running backs — including breakout Nebraska transfer Ajay Allen and freshman Mark Fletcher — looked sharp.Van Dyke’s 50-or-so-yard missile to a diving fourth-year junior Xavier ...

TAMPA — American Athletic Conference members have spoken about the possibility of adding schools left behind during the most recent round of conference realignment.USF athletic director Michael Kelly said Friday that he and administrators from other conference schools have been in communication with AAC commissioner Mike Aresco after six Pac-12 schools announced their departures for other conferences ...

Columbia Daily TribuneMizzou will host Gov. Mike Parson on Tuesday on Faurot Field for a ceremonial signing of House Bill 417, a pivotal piece of legislation for Missouri-based institutions in the name, image and likeness arms race.Before Parson puts celebratory pen to paper, Mizzou’s athletics might already have seen the full force of the bill’s impact.Class of 2024 four-star wide receiver Jeremiah ...

Figureheads are wagging fingers.Threatening language has reached a crescendo.There was once a time when old Mizzou would have been shaking in its black-and-gold boots. Perhaps those times have changed. It’s overdue.Here’s my advice to Mizzou and any other Missouri-based programs that are hearing breathless warnings about what could happen if they take full advantage of one of the most advantageous ...

Posted: Aug 11, 2023 / 05:23 PM HSTUpdated: Aug 11, 2023 / 05:23 PM HSTThe University of Hawaii football team will hold a Maui relief drive during Saturday’s Fan Fest at the Clarence T.C. Ching Athletics Complex from 3:30 to 6 p.m.Non-perishable items such as clothing, bedding and toiletries are encouraged, which will be collected at Gate 2 of the Clarence T.C. Ching Athletics Complex.All the latest ...

LOS ANGELES — Maybe the Rams were the best spot for Stetson Bennett IV.No, not because they’re based in Los Angeles and therefore carry an association with Hollywood, where writers should scramble to tell the Bennett story after the strike ends. Not even because Bennett finished his collegiate career at the Rams’ home of SoFi Stadium, where Georgia shellacked TCU for a second consecutive championship ...

PUBLISHED August 11, 2023 at 5:34 p.m. | UPDATED: August 11, 2023 at 6:22 p.m.With his Colorado debut three weeks away, head coach Deion Sanders said the Buffaloes certainly aren’t a finished project, but he likes where they are headed.“I’m happy. I’m happy with what I’ve got,” Sanders said Friday at CU’s annual fall sports media day. “We’re not satisfied tremendously because that’s who we are.”Happy, ...