Editor’s note: The Athletic 134 is a weekly ranking of all FBS college football teams. The first year of the 12-team College Football Playoff was an absolute success. Regardless of how the bracket plays out, it has already accomplished exactly what it was supposed to do. More regular-season games had more stakes. New faces made…
A head football coach at a Las Vegas school has been accused of carrying on a sexual relationship with a student under the age of 16, child pornography and other sex-related offences. The 45-year football coach and campus security monitor worked at Valley High School in Las Vegas. The teacher, identified as Antwone Washington, was…
NEW DELHI: India on Friday expressed sorrow over the tragic loss of 56 lives in a stampede during a football tournament in Nzérékoré, Guinea. In a statement, the ministry of external affairs (MEA) said, “We are deeply saddened to learn about the tragic stampede during a football tournament in Nzérékoré, Republic of Guinea, which claimed…
College football has seen its fair share of underdog stories over the years. But too many of them occurred in September or in bowl games that counted for little more than pride. At long last, we’re on the brink of a new era. On Sunday, a genuine playoff bracket will be revealed, the first of its…
Sterling Sanders could feel the tears coming on. It was late October and Sanders was elated. He’d just committed to Boston College inside coach Bill O’Brien’s office. A handshake sealed the deal. The three-star defensive lineman from Blytheville, S.C., had always dreamed of playing at the Power 4 level but wasn’t sure whether the opportunity…
Editor’s note: The Athletic 134 is a weekly ranking of all FBS college football teams. It turns out the first 12-team College Football Playoff field may be mostly locked in before championship weekend. After weeks of twists, turns and hypotheticals, figuring out the 12 teams has become mostly pretty easy by the end. But seeding…
NEW DELHI: A tragic stampede at a football stadium in southern Guinea resulted in 56 fatalities and numerous injuries following fan clashes, as announced by the Guinean government on Monday.The government has initiated an investigation to identify those responsible for the Sunday incident, according to Communications Minister Fana Soumah‘s televised statement.Local media and political groups…
Around 50 people are feared to have been killed following clashes between fans and a stampede that ensued on Sunday during a football match in the town of Nzerekore, southeast Guinea, a local official told Reuters. Guinea: About 100 people were killed in a football match in the city of Nzérékoré, near the border with…
LIVERPOOL: Liverpool have been used to second best during Pep Guardiola’s era at Manchester City, but a 2-0 victory over the crisis-hit champions left little doubt over who are the team to beat in this season’s Premier League title race.Goals in either half from Cody Gakpo and Mohamed Salah at Anfield on Sunday did not…
We have seen college football teams back into the College Football Playoff, losing their last regular-season or conference title game and still earning a spot in the four-team field. This happened to Alabama in 2017 after losing the Iron Bowl and to Ohio State after it lost to Michigan in 2022. That was the same…