After a year away from coaching, former Wake Forest head coach Danny Manning has a new job in college basketball. Manning will be joining Mark Turgeon’s coaching staff as an assistant at Maryland. The two played together at Kansas in the 1980s, including on the Jayhawks’ 1986 Final Four team, ESPN reports. Manning was the head coach More
Florida forward Keyontae Johnson, who collapsed during a Gators basketball game in December, announced he isn’t declaring for the NBA Draft and plans to return for his senior season with the Gators. Johnson said in an announcement posted to his social media he is waiting on medical clearance and plans to play in a Gators’ More
LeVar Burton has been announced as part of the final group of guest hosts who will round out the show’s 37th season in the wake of the death of beloved “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek last November, Variety reports. “Jeopardy!” executive producer Mike Richards said the goal has been to present a “wide variety” of guests More
The Indianapolis 500 is set to be the largest sporting event hosted with fans since the start of the pandemic, with 135,000 spectators permitted to attend the 105th installment of the event. Indianapolis Motor Speedway announced Wednesday it worked with the local health department to determine that 40% of venue capacity can attend the May 30 race More
At the request of the league’s coaches, NFL officials will crack down harder on taunting in 2021. It isn’t the touchdown celebrations NFL coaches want gone, but rather coaches want officials to focus on players going face-to-face, standing over each other or pointing fingers after big plays, said NFL’s competition committee report chairman Rich McKay, More
Seattle Seahawks defensive end Aldon Smith turned himself into authorities on Tuesday. Yahoo Sports reports Smith turned himself in and was released from custody two hours later — it is not known at this time when he is due back in court. The incident reportedly occurred Saturday and Smith was wanted for second degree battery. OutKick previously reported More
North Carolina’s Gov. Roy Cooper announced Wednesday the state hopes to lift mandatory social distancing, capacity and mass gathering restrictions by June 1. “The more we encourage people to get their shots, the sooner we can put this pandemic in our rearview mirror,” Cooper said. To date, North Carolina has administered over 6.5 million vaccines. More
The South Carolina Gamecocks’ secondary is slightly sparse. When defensive backs spoke to the media last week, 247Sports reports, there were only about half the available scholarship position players that assistant coaches Clayton White and Torrian Gray have available to them. “The secondary is very much a work in progress, as the defensive staff waits More
With coaches limited to Zooms and phone calls since the dead period was implemented in March 2020, Jimbo Fisher said he looks forward to the sense of normalcy that will return with the NCAA approving the regular sport-specific recruiting calendars starting June 1. “I think it’s very big,” he said on Friday, per Gigem247. “Because More
