Dybantsa’s resilience led BYU to opening Big 12 win
NCAA, Sports
January 5, 2026
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — About the fourth or fifth time that A.J. Dybantsa crashed to the floor, and he looked up at an official in both shock and vain, one of the most talented freshmen in college bask...
Vulcans sweep away East Stroudsburg
Cal (Pa.), NCAA, Sports
January 3, 2026
Jordyn Buchanan scored a gamehigh 26 points in a Cal victory over the visiting Warriors Friday. By the Mon Valley Independent The California (Pa.) men’s basketball team remained unbeaten in PSAC play ...
Chambliss, Carneiro lift Ole Miss past Georgia
NCAA, Sports
January 3, 2026
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With Trinidad Chambliss making stunning plays at pivotal moments, Mississippi is doing fine without Lane Kiffin. Chambliss passed for 362 yards and two touchdowns, and Lucas Carneir...
ACC may have helped its cause for March Madness
NCAA, Sports
January 3, 2026
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — It wasn’t long after sixth-ranked Duke finally fought off a pesky Georgia Tech team that coach Jon Scheyer pointed to the lesson emerging from the Blue Devils’ Atlantic Coast Confe...
Hoosiers, Ducks to meet again at Peach Bowl
NCAA, Sports
January 3, 2026
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Curt Cignetti’s perpetual seriousness has become a big part of the Indiana coach’s burgeoning lore. His ever-glowering face on the sideline has sparked countless memes and has ...
Miami within one win of playing for title on home field
NCAA, Sports
January 3, 2026
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — When Miami left Texas after an overtime loss to SMU at the start of November, the Hurricanes were at their lowest point of the season. There was a very dim forecast for getting...
Tracking Panthers hitting the transfer portal
NCAA, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By JUSTIN GUERRIERO TribLive 
January 3, 2026
Beginning at midnight Friday, the transfer portal officially opened, with players across college football free to enter their names and formally begin the process of finding new homes. At Pitt, a tric...
Pitt sophomore Amadou Kante to miss rest of season
NCAA, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By JUSTIN GUERRIERO TribLive 
January 3, 2026
Pitt redshirt sophomore Papa Amadou Kante will undergo an arthroscopic right knee procedure and miss the remainder of the season, the Panthers announced Friday morning. Kante, a 6-foot-10 senior from ...
Defense carries Ducks to semifinals
NCAA, Sports
January 2, 2026
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — The first thing that Oregon quarterback Dante Moore did after winning the Orange Bowl was salute the thousands of fans who made the cross-country trip to South Florida. If t...
Duke’s ACC title season comes to an end with Sun Bowl
NCAA, Sports
December 31, 2025
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Duke’s unlikely Atlantic Coast Conference title didn’t get the Blue Devils anywhere close to the College Football Playoff berth that’s supposed to go to every Power Four conferen...
Indiana’s rise rewards fans who endured losing
NCAA, Sports
By By MAURA CAREY AP Sports Writer 
December 31, 2025
Bill Murphy has been an Indiana football season ticket holder for 66 years. He says he has rarely missed a game even though 55 of them have been losing seasons in a historic stretch of bowl-less holid...
Defending champ Ohio State staring down Miami
NCAA, Sports
December 30, 2025
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Cotton Bowl has certainly gotten much more significant for Ohio State during three trips in a row to the game. This time, the second-seeded Buckeyes (12-1) are defending na...
Cotton Bowl QBs Beck and Sayin have rings as backups, now seek one as starter
NCAA, Sports
December 30, 2025
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Heisman Trophy finalist Julian Sayin and Carson Beck have already been part of national championship teams. Both quarterbacks are now trying to win a title of their own as a st...
Freeman returning to South Bend
NCAA, Sports
December 30, 2025
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Notre Dame has restructured coach Marcus Freeman’s contract and he will coach the Fighting Irish next season, the school confirmed on Monday. SI.com first reported Freeman’s ne...
Steelers going from ‘Super Bowl run’ to missing playoffs?
NCAA, NFL, Sports, ...
By By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports 
December 29, 2025
Last week, when the Steelers beat Detroit and then the Ravens lost to New England, sports talk airwaves were filled with people talking about the Steelers making a deep playoff run, even a run at the ...
Whittingham bringing physical edge to Michigan
NCAA, Sports
December 29, 2025
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Kyle Whittingham brought plenty of energy on four hours’ sleep Sunday when he was introduced as Michigan’s football coach, saying it was one of five jobs that could bring him out ...
Clemson-Penn St. ready for Pinstripe
NCAA, Sports
December 27, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Clemson and Penn State were projected in the preseason to be among the top four seeds in the 12-team College Football Playoff and in favorable position for a national championship. Ver...
Michigan hires former Utah coach Whittingham
NCAA, Sports
December 27, 2025
Kyle Whittingham said two weeks ago that he was stepping down after 21 seasons with the Utes. ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Michigan has agreed to a five-year contract with Kyle Whittingham to replace fired...
Panthers, Pirates look different entering bowl game
NCAA, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By JUSTIN GUERRIERO TribLive 
December 27, 2025
The current landscape of college sports, with the fluidity of movement for coaches and players alike, breeds tumultuous offseasons. Unfortunately for teams and their fan bases across the nation, the t...
No. 12 BYU, No. 24 Ga. Tech have lots to play for
NCAA, Sports
December 27, 2025
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The Pop-Tarts Bowl could easily be about who is not there or where these teams are not playing. Both No. 24 Georgia Tech and No. 12 BYU had dreams of reaching the College Football...