ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Group chats and photo shoots weren’t part of the recruiting process for Steve Frazier and his teammates in the Class of 1995. That was a good year to be a freshman at Michigan, as the careers of Charles Woodson and Tom Brady would attest. In today’s world, it would be hard …
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Wisconsin coach Luke Fickell assessed his team’s most significant question marks in the minutes after the Badgers completed their final spring football practice last month. He couldn’t escape a reality: What he had just witnessed during a special teams-heavy session revealed a dilemma at punter because neither of Wisconsin’s top two options was consistent enough …
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Fun fact of the week: Texas A&M entered the SEC in 2012 and still hasn’t hosted Georgia. That factoid feels particularly relevant Wednesday as the talk of the college football world is SEC scheduling. Eight conference games or nine conference games? That’s the prevailing query hanging over the league since the summer of 2021 when it …
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It’s that time of year. We made it. Official visits kick off this weekend, and recruiting staffs across the country are feverishly preparing for what has undoubtedly become one of the most important months on the college football calendar. What’s the ACC up to? Let’s check in on each of the league’s 14 schools with …
ACC football recruiting: 14 thoughts on 14 teams as summer visits begin Read More »
On Wednesday, perhaps by the time you read this, ESPN, Fox and others will announce their kickoff times for the first three weeks of the season. You will read plenty of coverage about it on The Athletic. As for weeks 4-13, while there have been a few announcements of specific games, you mostly will have …
Texas A&M football and NIL controversy seem to generate at least one huge headline per month at this point. First, the many accusations leveled at the Aggies due to their record-setting 2022 class, which directly followed what many considered a disappointing season. These accusations even arose from coaches in the SEC West—one of whom continues …
For the first time since the 2009-10 campaign, Tottenham Hotspur will not be in European competition next season. Playing in Europe has become completely habitual for Spurs — to the point where no other Premier League team other than Manchester City qualified for Europe every season like Spurs did in the period 2010-2022. But after …
What will having no European football next season really mean for Spurs? Read More »
Each phase has new special assistant, including former Wisconsin head coach Paul Chryst working with the offense. By Wescott Eberts on May 30, 2023 2:59 pm When former special assistant to the head coach Gary Patterson left the Texas Longhorns program this spring after a year on the Forty Acres, head coach Steve Sarkisian wasn’t …
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Spoiler alert: The following story features spoilers of the series finale of HBO’s “Succession.” Her favorite day of the year was the one afternoon on the Chicago Cubs schedule that allowed her to bring her American Girl doll to the cathedral on Addison Street. Waiting for her was a new Cubs outfit for her special …
HBO’s ‘Succession’ finale foretold by MLB history? How a fan’s Wambsgans theory took off Read More »
In the first weeks of his first full-time job in soccer during the 2019 Gold Cup, former U.S. men’s national team scout Michael Stephens watched B.J. Callaghan put in the type of hours you usually read about in the profiles of college football coaches. On Gregg Berhalter’s coaching staff, where long hours were the norm, …
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