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5:45 PM ET COLUMBUS, Oh. — Ohio State‘s pro day offered a sneak peek at one of the best NFL draft prospects — for 2023. Buckeyes quarterback C.J. Stroud made 55-yard throws look effortless inside the school’s indoor practice facility on Wednesday. With representatives from all 32 teams watching, including a few NFL head coaches,

3:25 PM ET Associated Press Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit will be the announcing team when Prime Video takes over the “Thursday Night Football” package in September. Michaels moves to Prime from NBC. His contract with NBC ended last month after he was in the booth for his 11th Super Bowl. “This is the new

2:22 PM ET North Carolina wide receiver Tylee Craft has been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and has begun chemotherapy treatments, he announced on Twitter on Wednesday. Craft wrote that he had been experiencing debilitating back pain and went to the hospital to get checked further. He was diagnosed with cancer March 14.

4:56 PM ET LYNCHBURG, Va. — Liberty quarterback Malik Willis impressed a school pro-day record 60 NFL coaches, scouts and executives from all 32 teams with the arm strength and athleticism that has him projected as a first-round draft pick. Willis was particularly impressive Tuesday with an improvised strike that traveled 65 yards in the

1:00 PM ET The National College Players Association (NCPA) has filed a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, asserting that more than 350 Division I colleges are violating Black students’ civil rights by imposing a collusive athlete compensation prohibition. The organization says that because a high percentage of

7:00 AM ET In the last six seasons, five different teams have won the MAC West. The only team that hasn’t, Eastern Michigan, came achingly close in 2018. This division doesn’t quite feature ACC Coastal-level parity, but it’s close. Nearly everybody gets a turn at the top. That makes it awfully hard to project this

3:04 PM ET Alabama quarterback Bryce Young said it was a process turning the page after losing to Georgia in the national championship game, but he’s asked himself in the weeks and months leading up to spring practice, “What can I do to grow?” Young won the Heisman Trophy and went 13-2 in his first

12:34 PM ET Josh Heupel got a commitment from his highest-ranked prospect since joining Tennessee as head coach when ESPN Junior 300 quarterback Nico Iamaleava announced his commitment to the Vols. Iamaleava is the No. 24 prospect in the 2023 class and the No. 4 quarterback. He’s a 6-foot-6, 195-pound signal-caller from Long Beach Polytechnic

7:00 AM ET It’s possible Oklahoma State was just “inches short” of the College Football Playoff last fall — but it’s also a rather grand assumption that had Dezmon Jackson managed to grow a few inches on a desperate fourth-down dive against Baylor in the Big 12 title game, the selection committee would have chosen

7:57 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Florida quarterback Emory Jones is headed to the NCAA transfer portal. His private quarterback trainer, Quincy Avery, told ESPN in an interview on Friday night that Jones has informed Florida coaches that he’s entering the portal, and he’s already begun that process. Jones, a redshirt senior, started 12 games for

9:11 PM ET Ulysses Bentley IV, who led the American Athletic Conference in rushing in 2020 and started 14 games at SMU during the past two seasons, announced on Wednesday he is transferring to Ole Miss after entering the portal. On Monday, first-year Mustangs coach Rhett Lashlee told ESPN that he met with Bentley on

1:15 PM ET The Oconee County (Georgia) Sheriff’s Office announced on Wednesday that former University of Georgia football player Akhil Crumpton was arrested in connection to the murder of 23-year-old gas station clerk Elijah Wood last year. Wood was shot and killed at approximately 1:30 a.m. on March 19, 2021, by an armed assailant who

9:56 AM ET Penn State athletic director Sandy Barbour, who has led the department since 2014, will retire this summer, it was announced Wednesday. Barbour, 62, arrived at Penn State in July 2014 after a 10-year tenure as athletic director at Cal. She also spent 1996 to 1999 as Tulane’s athletic director before a long

7:00 AM ET Now is when it gets good. With teams playing their third and fourth games of the tournament, depth and talent usually win out. We’re down to 16 teams (AKA the Sweet 16) in ESPN’s 2022 fictional NCAA football tournament. The early rounds have already provided some memorable moments, including game-winning field goals,

4:51 PM ET Michigan has hired Milan (Mimi) Bolden-Morris, who recently finished her basketball career at Georgetown, to serve as a graduate assistant working with the Wolverines quarterbacks. Bolden-Morris, the sister of Michigan senior defensive end Mike Morris, will begin her new job June 1. She is the first woman to be a graduate assistant

3:37 PM ET Georgia opened spring practice on Tuesday with coach Kirby Smart delivering a blunt assessment about the makeup of his team given all the attrition that took place after winning the national championship in January. “A lot of holes,” Smart said. “There are a lot of questions to be answered from our team

7:00 AM ET Nobody in college football’s upper hierarchy can seem to agree on anything remotely related to playoff expansion, so we’ll do it for them. Truth is we’ve been way ahead of the curve for years. So once again, we’ll count it down from 64 teams (not just four), and that way, just about

7:00 AM ET There are plenty of obvious hazards to starting a full offseason preview series in February. Players get hurt, players transfer, things change. But at least coaching changes usually don’t play a role. Usually. When I wrote the MAC East preview last March, Lance Leipold’s Buffalo Bulls and Frank Solich’s Ohio Bobcats appeared