Highly touted power forward Ira Lee committed to the Arizona Wildcats men's basketball team Thursday. "Coach [Sean] Miller offered me as a freshman, so I have a very good relationship with him, and I like the way he runs his program," Lee said of his decision, according to Scout's Josh Gershon. According to Scout, the 4-star prospect is the No. 10-ranked power forward and No. 80-ranked player overall in the 2017 recruiting class. Lee is set to ...

The buzz is building around Dunbar High School (Fort Myers, Florida) sophomore Derick Hunter, who claims multiple FBS scholarship offers despite limited varsity snaps. Standing 6'5" and 231 pounds, this versatile underclassman landed his first offer from South Florida as a freshman. Florida and Notre Dame have since entered the equation. "I was shocked," Hunter told Bleacher Report while discussing the Fighting Irish offer that arrived earlier this month. Hunter, who moved into starting roles on both sides of ...

The NCAA released its notice of allegations to the University of Louisville on Thursday, and the result was the opposite of a "got ya" moment. Nothing new surfaced in the NCAA's investigation of the program. The man with the ability to make things much worse for Rick Pitino and his program, former basketball staffer Andre McGee, stayed silent. As a result, the NOA is 20 pages of nothing to see here. Time to move on. This was the ...

Regular season college basketball is just a little over three weeks away, and thanks to the USA Today Coaches Top 25 published Thursday morning, we finally have consensus rankings to consider for the remainder of the preseason. As expected, Duke is No. 1, followed by Kansas, Villanova, Kentucky, Oregon, North Carolina and Virginia. You may disagree with the order, but those are the seven teams most likely to win the national championship. While those 32 coaches got a ...

The Concussion Legacy Foundation released a study Wednesday that revealed former college football players from over 100 programs had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).   In total, 138 former football players out of 152 studied at the VA-BU-CLF Brain Bank, or 91 percent, were diagnosed with the degenerative brain disease. As Kevin McGuire of College Football Talk noted: "How far back the study goes is not clear, but it does include at least one player from the 1969 Texas Longhorns, Greg Ploetz. The former ...

From the moment he stepped on the football field as a fourth-grader, Texas A&M wide receiver Christian Kirk had it. The 5'11", 200-pound sophomore from Scottsdale, Arizona, has a team-high 40 catches for 352 yards and four touchdowns, is averaging 8.4 yards per carry and will lead his team into Tuscaloosa against top-ranked Alabama this weekend with an unblemished 6-0 record and the No. 6 ranking according to both major polls. "They're dynamic," Kirk said of Alabama's ...

The first USA Today Coaches Poll for the upcoming 2016-17 men’s college basketball season was released Thursday. The Duke Blue Devils sit atop the rankings, followed by the Kansas Jayhawks and the defending champion Villanova Wildcats. Here is a look at the entire Top 25, per USA Today: Florida State, Iowa State, California, Miami (Fla.) and Dayton were the top five teams in the "others receiving votes" category. One of the initial things that jump out about preseason ...

Check out five of the top NFL and NCAA football headlines from Wednesday night and Thursday morning. Geno Smith Named Starting Quarterback for New York Jets Geno Smith will be taking over the quarterbacking duties from Ryan Fitzpatrick for the New York Jets. "I felt like it was time for a change," Jets head coach Todd Bowles said, per the team's Twitter account. Fitzpatrick leads the NFL with 11 interceptions. Click here for more.                       ...

Week 8 of the college football season will showcase a trio of Top 25 matchups among SEC West schools.  In addition to the fireworks down south, there are a handful of matchups around the nation that figure to provide intrigue over the weekend. With signing day less than four months away and the regular season nearing its final month, schools from coast to coast are relishing the opportunity to host elite recruits each week. Which visits taking place ...

The University of Louisville received a notice of allegations from the NCAA on Thursday in relation to the prostitution scandal that surfaced last season. Furthermore, head men's basketball coach Rick Pitino was charged with failing to monitor a staff member. Louisville announced its receipt of the NOA on its official website, and ESPN.com's Dana O'Neil speculated that Pitino could face a multigame suspension based on previous discipline for coaches over similar violations. The university has 90 days ...