The football rivalry between Cal Poly and Sacramento State makes almost too much sense. Of the 125 teams in the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA), each is one of just four in California. Both are available Oct. 11. The… more »

CEDAR FALLS — Terry Wanless has hired and fired coaches. He has dealt with budget concerns, gender equity issues and academic struggles. Unlike the other four finalists for the vacant Northern Iowa athletic director position, Wanless has also been th… more »

Falls, Ia. - Terry Wanless has two distinct advantages over his competition to become athletic director at Northern Iowa: He's the only hopeful to have been a football coach, and he's the only one currently serving as the athletic director of another sc… more »

It has seven programs facing NCAA penalties. Sacramento State has seven athletic programs subject to NCAA penalties, the most of any Division I school in the country, based on Academic Progress Rate data released on Tuesday. New Mexico State, San… more »

Today's Spring Game provides a glimpse of the fall competition. Spring football is always about promise and potential, not to mention a healthy dose of learning. Mcleod Bethel-Thompson has plenty of the first two, the 6-foot-3, 225-pound quarterba… more »

When Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie was taken as the 16th pick of the NFL draft on Saturday, it was a fitting culmination of a journey that began on what might have looked like a bumpy, unpaved road to nowhere. Rodgers-Cromartie wasn't on the college ra… more »

CEDAR FALLS --- Five finalists for the position of director of athletics at the University of Northern Iowa will make campus visits and give public presentations beginning the first full week of May. The finalists are Terry L. Wanless, director of at… more »

With the NFL draft a little more than a week away, Raiders offensive coordinator Greg Knapp had to have a good reason to be away from team headquarters in Alameda. Knapp did. He was at his alma mater, Sacramento State, on Thursday touring the soon-to… more »

Will Plemons, a former Fresno State graduate assistant, will be the Bulldogs' new linebackers coach, according to his old boss. Lou Baiz, the defensive coordinator at Sacramento State where Plemons worked last season, said this week that his former d… more »

Hornet and Aggie head coaches discuss their recruiting classes. Marshall Sperbeck wanted to focus on local talent, strengthen his defensive line and secondary and bring in help at quarterback. Bob Biggs' mission on national letter-of-intent day in… more »

Sometimes football players transfer due to circumstances outside of their control - like this athlete's transfer to Idaho State. It was a night spent sitting in his parked car two years ago when Ryan Head was thinking Sacramento wasn’t for him. Th… more »

A decision that was verbal last month goes down on paper today. Chad Davis and Deionte Gordon are about to have their college educations paid for, while extending their football dreams another four years. "I'm very excited," said Gordon, the Monte… more »

Deonte Williams thought he was about to encounter something out of this world upon landing in Arizona and taking the scenic drive to Flagstaff. There it was on the side of the road: the Skydome. The landmark on the pine-laden campus of Northern Ar… more »

Big Sky and Great West schools nab recruiting targets in California. Deonte Williams and Cary Grossart have gone from Delta River Valley League rivals to sudden teammates - all that becoming official when the football players sign their national lett… more »

Walk-on UCLA QB to transfer to Sacramento State. McLeod Bethel-Thompson, the walk-on quarterback who appeared in two of UCLA’s biggest games last season, has left UCLA and will transfer to Sacramento State, the athletic department announced Tuesday.… more »