At this point last year, NFL scouts saw Ohio State cornerback Damon Arnette as a talented but unreliable prospect with a boundary-level top-100 draft pick. However, he benefited from his final year in Columbus and turned himself into a first-round pick in the 2020 NFL Draft. Every year, there are …
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The Southland Conference has postponed football until the spring, but will have its members play non-conference games this fall if they wish. Southland Conference Commissioner Tom Burnett said in a statement Thursday that he was disappointed, but “we look forward to a unique spring season of athletics that also includes …
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Thursday began with one of the NCAA’s top medical advisors comparing the current state of college sports to the sinking of the Titanic, ending with NCAA President Mark Emmert officially announcing that there will be no bankruptcy championships in 2020 will be. Emmert’s announcement was significant, but also expected. The …
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Nebraska ended speculation about its attempts to play football in the fall of 2020 with a statement confirming the school’s commitment to the Big Ten. “The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is a fully committed member of the Big Ten Conference. It is an unparalleled athletic and academic alliance,” Chancellor Ronnie Green …
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Amid the rising seas of pandemic broadcasts, Football Island is now the only thing left. That eroding strip of land is where the definitive battle for college athletics will be fought in an endless summer of fear. Part passion, part politics and part pay controls, this squabble comes down to …
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