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4 Tennessee (8-1, 5-1 SEC) will play at No. 10 Georgia (7-2, 5-2 SEC) on Saturday in Week 12 of the 2024 college football ...

The signs of success can be found all around Indiana’s campus these days. Three straight home football sellouts.

Oregon's dominance in its first year in the Big Ten and Indiana's monumental turnaround have helped the conference stack four ...

With the NCAA transfer portal set to open Dec. 9, the Tar Heels are already trying to get a handle on who might leave, who ...

1892 — William “Pudge” Heffelfinger becomes the first pro football player by getting $500 to play for ... 1994 — Prairie View loses 52-7 to Jackson State, breaking an NCAA Division I-AA record with 45 ...

2017 — Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski becomes the first men’s Division I basketball coach to win 1,000 games at one school, when his top-ranked Blue Devils beat Utah Valley 99-69.

The first game at Memorial Stadium was played Nov. 8, 1924. Texas boasts a 403-123-10 record at its longtime home.

Parker Hall of the Cleveland Rams throws seven interceptions against the Green Bay Packers. 1952 — Maurice Richard of the Montreal Canadiens becomes the NHL’s leading career goal ...

One of the nitpicks about the first College Football Playoff rankings was that the committee undervalued unbeaten Indiana.

In 2008, the Dixon Award went to world-renowned orthopedic Dr. James Andrews, a Homer native, LSU graduate and SEC champion ...