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Maryland Grants QB O’Brien’s Release

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Mary­land foot­ball has granted quar­ter­back Danny O’Brien’s request for a release from the pro­gram to play elsewhere. Head foot­ball coach Randy Edsall announced Mon­day that O’Brien, line­man Max Gar­cia and line­backer Mario Row­son were all granted releases from the program. Edsall says O’Brien, who played in nine games last sea­son, told him he was not com­mit­ted to the pro­gram and wants a fresh start. The red­shirt sopho­more com­pleted 150 of 266 passes for 1,648 yards with seven touch­downs and 10 interceptions. The coach says Gar­cia,... 

PSU AD on Leave Wants Charges Tossed

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Penn State admin­is­tra­tor is ask­ing a judge to throw out charges that he lied to the grand jury inves­ti­gat­ing child sex abuse alle­ga­tions against Jerry San­dusky and that he failed to report sus­pected abuse. Tim Cur­ley filed motions in Dauphin County Court on Mon­day that argued the death of foot­ball coach Joe Paterno last month leaves pros­e­cu­tors with­out a required sec­ond wit­ness to sup­port the per­jury charge. He says alle­ga­tions he didn’t report sus­pected abuse in 2002 were filed under a revi­sion of the law that was passed... 

Bob Stoops Finishes 4th in AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am

Bob Stoops fin­ishes 4th in AT&T Peb­ble Beach National Pro-Am Posted by Ben Kercheval on Feb­ru­ary 12, 2012, 6:15 PM EST JT got you all up to speed on how Okla­homa coach Bob Stoops was doing head­ing into the final day of the AT&T Peb­ble Beach National Pro-Am tour­na­ment this morning. Turns out, ol’ Bobby can knock around some golf balls with the best of ‘em. The pair­ing of for­mer OU golfer Hunter Haas and Stoops turned in a fourth place fin­ish today with 10-under 60 on the final day of the tour­na­ment. The two started the day tied for ninth. Over­all,... 

UConn Hires Buffalo’s Manuel as AD

STORRS, Conn. — Con­necti­cut has hired Warde Manuel as its new ath­leticdirec­tor. Manuel had been the AD at the Uni­ver­sity at Buf­falo for six years. Theuni­ver­sity said Sun­day that he would sign a five-year con­tract, with the schoolhold­ing the option for a two-year extension. He will be paid a base salary of $ 450,000 and is eli­gi­ble for a $ 100,000per­for­mance incen­tive annu­ally if cer­tain aca­d­e­mic and ath­letic goals areachieved and for another $ 100,000 in deferred com­pen­sa­tion after five years. A native of New Orleans, the 43-year-old... 

More Shapiro: ‘I’M Taking That Program Down to Chinatown’

More Shapiro: ‘I’m tak­ing that pro­gram down to Chinatown’ Posted by Ben Kercheval on Feb­ru­ary 12, 2012, 12:42 PM EST The emails for­mer Miami Booster Nevin Shapiro sent to the CNBC show “Amer­i­can Greed” for their fea­ture weren’t the only ones he sent boast­ing his alle­ga­tions of imper­mis­si­ble ben­e­fits given to for­mer and cur­rent Miami players. A Miami Her­ald Sun­day col­umn shares por­tions of numer­ous e-mails Shapiro used to com­mu­ni­cate from jail over the past few months. And, like he did with Charles Robin­son of Yahoo! Sports, like... 

Stoops Makes the Cut; Saban, Not So Much

Stoops makes the cut; Saban, not so much Posted by John Tay­lor on Feb­ru­ary 12, 2012, 8:54 AM EST With the 2011 and National Sign­ing Day firmly in the rear-view mir­ror, and spring prac­tice still a few weeks away, what’s the head coach of a major col­lege foot­ball pro­gram to do with his time? If you’re Bob Stoops, you play on a Sun­day in a PGA tour event in front of a national tele­vi­sion audi­ence, that’s what you do. Paired with cur­rent PGA Tour pro and for­mer OU golfer Hunter Haas, the Okla­homa head coach is tied for ninth after three rounds of the AT&T... 

Todd Graham Doles Out Titles for Sun Devils Staff

Todd Gra­ham doles out titles for Sun Dev­ils staff Posted by John Tay­lor on Feb­ru­ary 11, 2012, 9:15 PM EST With the hir­ing of for­mer Mem­phis head coach Larry Porter made offi­cial Fri­day, Todd Gra­ham com­pleted his first coach­ing staff at Ari­zona State. And, with all of the holes now filled, Gra­ham has released the respon­si­bil­i­ties and titles each of the assis­tants will hold in 2012. Start­ing with the most recent hire, and as he has at every one of his assis­tant coach­ing stops, Porter will be in charge of Sun Devil run­ning backs. Per­haps the... 

Hope for UCLA? With Mora in Charge, Things Are Looking Up

OK, I’ll admit it. When UCLA first hired Jim Mora Jr., my ini­tial reac­tion was, basi­cally, this: Wow, what’s hap­pened to UCLA? Have they really fallen this far? And what on earth does Jim Mora Jr. know about col­lege foot­ball, anyway? Well, a cou­ple months later, I must say, I am duly impressed with Mora’s per­for­mance so far-most espe­cially his efforts on the recruit­ing trail-and am actu­ally begin­ning to think that this guy might turn out to be a win­ner in West­wood (and, hey, he can’t be much worse than Rick Neuheisel, can he?). While seri­ous ques­tions... 

Sumlin Fills Final A&M Coaching Hole

Sum­lin fills final A&M coach­ing hole Posted by John Tay­lor on Feb­ru­ary 11, 2012, 11:21 AM EST Exactly two months to the day Texas A&M con­firmed his hir­ing as head coach, Kevin Sum­lin has offi­cially com­pleted his first Aggies coach­ing staff. Fol­low­ing up on reports that had sur­faced ear­lier this month, the Aggies con­firmed Fri­day that Matt Waller­st­edt has been hired as line­back­ers coach. “Matt has done a great job at the Air Force Acad­emy and he will be a great addi­tion to our staff,” Sum­lin said. “He is another coach on our staff... 

NCAA Proposes Moving Kickoffs to 35

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The NCAA foot­ball rules com­mit­tee has pro­posed mov­ing kick­offs from the 30-yard line to the 35 and to limit the run­ning start by play­ers on the kick­ing team to 5 yards as a way of keep­ing play­ers safer. NCAA says its injury data indi­cates injuries dur­ing kick­offs occur more often than in other phases of the game. The NFL moved up kick­offs 5 yards this past sea­son and touch­backs increased dramatically. The com­mit­tee also pro­posed a rule that would require a player who loses his hel­met dur­ing a play to stop par­tic­i­pat­ing and...