Coach focused on football season, not on league coaches' forecast. ALBANY -- Bob Ford has successfully navigated the transformation of the football program he started at the University at Albany from Division III up to the NCAA Football Championship… more »

While most of his teammates spent the summer in Greenville preparing for the football season, Furman University senior defensive end Gaines Burnett went home to work an internship. Football was never far from his mind, however. "I knew I had to wo… more »

Offensive coordinator only assistant left from '02 staff NEWARK -- Everything seems natural for Brian Ginn. He walks around practice, a visor on his head, a brace on his knee, constantly yelling instructions, offering encouragement or pulling a playe… more »

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Despite returning the largest senior class in the Ivy League, the Cornell football team was picked to finish sixth in the league's preseason media poll, which was released Tuesday morning at the annual media day festivities at Yale Go… more »

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Movin' on up was the dominant theme yesterday when the Northeast Conference coaches spoke during a preseason teleconference. Whether asked or not, all the coaches made reference to the league's impending automatic bid to the Fo… more »

Dartmouth College coach Buddy Teevens said he wasn't surprised when he learned that his team was picked to finish seventh in this year's Ivy League media poll. That doesn't mean he thinks the poll is accurate, though. "With the losses to graduation w… more »

Duquesne's relentless dominance of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Football League earned it 10 titles in 14 years. But when the league's membership dwindled to four it folded, and the Dukes joined the Northeast Conference as an associate member.… more »

Just like a puzzle, Austin Peay starts to put the pieces together and establish its depth chart with the first full scrimmage this morning at Governors Stadium. The Govs will start practice at 9 a.m. and are scheduled to get the scrimmage going aroun… more »

The Florida A&M football media guide says Donovan Johnson didn't play in 2007. It doesn't say why the defensive back from Miami wasn't on the field with his teammates. If there's a medical term for the redshirt junior's absence, it would be th… more »

The lifelong Orland Park resident and 2006 Providence Catholic High School graduate, will enter his junior season as a football player at Yale University later this month. "Everything is going well," Farrell said. "The season is starting soon (Yale's… more »

Thomas, Austin Peay coach on same page with decision. Sometimes an athlete wants to get on the field any way possible. And sometimes a coach knows he needs to get an athlete on the field to benefit his football team. So when both sides realize… more »

GEORGETOWN, Ky. – Jerome Simpson has history on his side. He is the fifth wide receiver the Bengals have selected in the second round of the draft in 41 tries. The other four – Cris Collinsworth in 1981, Carl Pickens in 1992, Darnay Scott in 1994 and Ch… more »

As another Penn State lineman decides to transfer, this report also talks about two former Nittany Lions who decided to transfer to Delaware and Towson. Josh Marks, one of Penn State's recent highly regarded offensive lineman recruits, has decided to… more »

ORONO - Throughout his football life, Levi Ervin never backed down from a challenge. He did have to backpedal, though. But now, the former Lisbon High School standout is learning to be a linebacker at the University of Maine, and the change is not… more »

Being a freshman walk-on place-kicker is pressure enough. But imagine being a freshman walk-on kicker who finds out right before the season he is going to handle the duties only a few months removed from being a high school senior. Those were the… more »