Forecasters are calling for one of the hottest weekends of the summer, so I offer this touch of fall to cool you off. On Aug. 3, the University of Rhode Island football team will report for preseason training camp. The Rams will not kick off until Au… more »

It's easy to see how prevalent it is for major-college football programs to buy off their smaller brethren in order to get them to come in for what is typically an easy victory (though Michigan and mighty Appalachian State would surely tell you otherwis… more »

Utah Valley University's progression from a trade school of about 3,000 students to a Division I university was further reinforced by the announcement UVU will join the Great West Conference and start competing in all varsity sports except football in t… more »

High gas prices give fans, especially those with gas-guzzling vehicles, a dilemma. Last fall, Reginald Bowens had plenty happening. Between an impending marriage and the good fortunes of the football team of his and his fiancee's alma mater, Jackson… more »

College football ghosts at Yankee Stadium are among the oldest, and most familiar, of any that are rattling around the 85-year-old sports shrine. It was at Yankee Stadium that Knute Rockne gave his "Win one for the Gipper" halftime speech, which supp… more »

HARRISONBURG - To accommodate four more schools in the Division I-AA football playoffs, the NCAA has mandated a major scheduling change starting in 2010: 11 games in 11 weeks, with no byes. The Colonial Athletic Association's boss is less than thrill… more »

West Viriginia's staff has veterans from FCS national champions, and FCS schools around Virginia. MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Here in the war room at West Virginia University, the newly assembled football staff is building its offense, but the braintrust has… more »

With just barely a hint of football in the air, the coaches and some players, representing 12 college and university football teams throughout the state made themselves available to the media Tuesday at the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in Macon for the s… more »

Calvin Schmidtke passed for 2,724 yards last season with 37 touchdowns and five interceptions TERRE HAUTE — First-year coach Trent Miles was already thrilled to have almost 50 fresh young faces arriving on Indiana State’s campus July 30. Miles’ sm… more »

Opinion piece talks about some high-profile transfers from Ohio State recently, as well as the reasons why players choose to transfer. Sometimes it's as easy as hut-one, hut-two, hut-three. Quarterbacks grow up learning to read what's in front of th… more »

HARRISONBURG - When Virginia Tech yanked its football scholarship offer from Amherst High School's Peter Rose, a natural question arose: Would the three-star quarterback be welcome at James Madison once his legal problems were resolved? The short ans… more »

Editor's note: After 87 years of setting a high standard for NCAA Division II athletic success, the North Central Conference will bid farewell at a celebration gala in Sioux Falls on Saturday. To put the league's past in perspective and honor its con… more »

The Grand Forks Herald's Wayne Nelson talks a little bit about the history of the now-defunct NCC Division II conference - the conference that gave FCS North Dakota, North Dakota State, South Dakota, South Dakota State, Northern Iowa, and Northern Color… more »

The addition of four teams to the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision playoffs could mean an adjustment to the national championship game. FCS athletic directors, meeting at their annual convention in Dallas last week, want to try to av… more »

Knocking off bowl-bound Michigan and Navy, and appearing in the FCS national championship game sure appears to help sell tickets. That's what Delaware and Appalachian State appear to have discovered. As of this morning, UD had sold 10,849 season tic… more »