Alabama A&M will have to make it to the Southwestern Athletic Conference championship game if it wants to be on any of the ESPN family of networks this season. The SWAC announced its ESPN network lineup of football games Monday and the Bulldogs d… more »

The University of Montana will pay former football coach Robin Pflugrad an additional $78,000 to resolve all issues relating to his dismissal, the university and Pflugrad announced Monday. Pflugrad will receive $44,500 for lost summer camp income and… more »

Liberty Head Football Coach Turner Gill has announced some recent changes to the Flames’ 2012 roster. Redshirt senior quarterback Tyler Brennan and redshirt freshman defensive lineman Luke Pingley have voluntarily left the program to pursue oth… more »

The objective is to have a permanent athletic director in place at the University of Montana by the start of the fall semester. “We’ll have to work hard to get that done,” UM President Royce Engstrom told the Missoulian on Wednesday, “but that’s our… more »

The Ivy League and the NBC Sports Group announced a two-year renewal of their national television rights agreement today that includes an increase in football games. It also includes the first-ever rights for the NBC Sports Network to televise men's… more »

The Ohio Valley Conference concluded its annual Conference Spring Meetings last Friday in Nashville. The event ran May 29 - June 1. During the past school year the league organized an OVC Game Operations subcommittee that recommended the OVC Fan Code… more »

When North Dakota residents decide Measure 4 on the June 12 ballot, they will be determining the immediate fate of the University of North Dakota’s “Fighting Sioux” nickname. A “yes” vote would allow UND to discontinue the Fighting Sioux nickname and… more »

Old Dominion University’s football team will play on national TV twice this season and Colonial Athletic Association athletic directors have agreed that the Monarchs should be allowed to play for the league’s regular-season football championship. The… more »

Montana junior Jordan Tripp will wear the iconic No. 37 jersey when the Griz return to the gridiron this fall. The Missoula Big Sky graduate was picked by former wearer Ryan Fetherston to carry on the tradition. Missoula Big Sky graduate Jordan Tripp… more »

Relocation rumors continue to surround the elite programs in Division I HBCU athletics, with today’s installment focused on Hampton University and a possible defection to the CAA. If the change is to come for Hampton, the move makes a lot of sense. T… more »

The Southern Conference completed its annual Spring Meetings on Friday (June 1). The four-day meetings were attended by each of the member institutions' President or Chancellor, Athletics Director, Senior Woman Administrator and Faculty Athletics Repre… more »

University of Montana officials have announced the NCAA opened an investigation into the university's football program four months ago, in yet another blow to a school dealing with allegations that it improperly handled reports of rape and sexual assaul… more »

UND football coach Chris Mussman was asked if he feels a weight has been lifted off his shoulders now that the difficult transition from NCAA Division II to Division I is in the rear-view mirror. He just laughed. Like all of UND’s programs heading… more »

If the Football Championship Subdivision — yes, I prefer NCAA Division I-AA, too — can figure out how to have 20 teams in a postseason tournament, there's no reason why the big boys can't eventually get at least eight involved. Big Ten commissioner J… more »

Southern Conference commissioner John Iamarino has spent weeks talking about what will be discussed at the league's spring meetings. The hot topics are the status of the 12 schools in the league and what to do if any of them leave. Now it's time for tho… more »