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Ex-Memphis Coach Porter on ASU Staff

TEMPE, Ariz. — For­mer Mem­phis head coach Larry Porter has been added to the staff of new coach Todd Gra­ham at Ari­zona State. Before tak­ing the Mem­phis job two years ago, Porter was an assis­tant to Les Miles for five years at LSU, gain­ing a rep­u­ta­tion as one of the top recruiters in the country. But Porter lasted just two sea­sons as a head coach and was fired last year after going 3–21 in his two sea­sons at Memphis. Gra­ham will not announce what spe­cific duties Porter will have until he com­pletes his staff, some­thing that’s expected in the next few days. Our sports betting news features unique sports betting articles as well as current sports news compiled from leading wire services.... 

Charges Against Ex-Pitt Coach Dismissed

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — An Indi­ana judge has dis­missed a domes­tic bat­tery charge against for­mer Notre Dame offen­sive coor­di­na­tor Michael Hay­wood, who served briefly as Pittsburgh’s head foot­ball coach before the case led to his firing. A St. Joseph Supe­rior Court judge dis­missed the charges Fri­day after deter­min­ing Hay­wood had com­pleted all terms of a pre-trial diver­sion pro­gram that included coun­sel­ing and com­mu­nity ser­vice, the South Bend Tri­bune reports (http://bit.ly/yxM6C6). The state had agreed to dis­miss its case if Hay­wood com­pleted... 

Michigan AD: Night Game Unlikely in 2012

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michi­gan ath­letic direc­tor Dave Bran­don says the school isn’t likely to set up another night foot­ball game at home next season. The Wolver­ines beat Notre Dame in a thrilling game under the lights last sea­son in the first prime­time game at Michi­gan Sta­dium. But Bran­don says it’s “get­ting pretty late in the game” to sched­ule a night game for 2012. Bran­don wants the right matchup and right time of year for a night game. The Notre Dame game was in Sep­tem­ber, but the Fight­ing Irish don’t come to Ann Arbor next season. Michigan’s home... 

Ex-LSU RB Pleads Not Guilty in Sex Case

GONZALES, La. — For­mer LSU run­ning back Charles Edward Scott has pleaded not guilty to one count of sex­ual bat­tery of an 18-year-old woman last year. The 23-year-old Scott entered the plea Thurs­day. He was arrested in Novem­ber on a count of sim­ple rape. Ascen­sion Parish Assis­tant Dis­trict Attor­ney Robin O’Bannon filed a bill of infor­ma­tion for the lesser charge of sex­ual bat­tery on Monday. Scott’s attor­ney, Andre Gau­thier, said a trial date will be set after a June sta­tus hearing. Scott’s best sea­son at LSU was in 2008, when he rushed for 1,174 yards... 

Report: Ohio State Needs Ethics Office

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Con­sul­tants have rec­om­mended that Ohio State hire a vice pres­i­dent to over­see a new office and new com­mit­tee respon­si­ble for mon­i­tor­ing ethics com­pli­ance across the uni­ver­sity sys­tem in the wake of the school’s foot­ball mem­o­ra­bilia scandal. The report given to a uni­ver­sity board of trustees com­mit­tee Thurs­day is a response to the scan­dal that led to the res­ig­na­tion of coach Jim Tres­sel, but its rec­om­men­da­tions would apply to numer­ous depart­ments, includ­ing ath­let­ics. The trustees’ audit com­mit­tee... 

A&M Drops Game, Adds 2 to 2012 Schedule

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Texas A&M has revamped its 2012 foot­ball sched­ule, drop­ping McNeese State and adding Louisiana Tech and South Car­olina State. The Aggies, mov­ing from the Big 12 to the South­east­ern Con­fer­ence for next sea­son, still need one more game. Ath­letic direc­tor Bill Byrne says their options for sched­ul­ing were lim­ited because of the move, but that they expect to have a game for Nov. 17 lined up soon. Texas A&M was sched­uled to host McNeese State on Sept. 1, but replaced that game with Louisiana Tech on Aug. 30 in Shreve­port, La. They’ll... 

Iowa Promotes Parker to Run Defense

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Phil Parker had the oppor­tu­nity to leave Iowa for a defen­sive coordinator’s job at another major pro­gram more than once, yet chose to stay with the Hawkeyes. Iowa coach Kirk Fer­entz cer­tainly appre­ci­ated Parker’s loy­alty to the pro­gram. But Fer­entz said Wednes­day that he pro­moted Parker from defen­sive backs coach to defen­sive coor­di­na­tor after 13 sea­sons sim­ply because Parker was, in his eyes, the best man for the job. The Hawkeyes announced Tues­day that Parker would take over for Norm Parker (no rela­tion), who ran Iowa’s defense... 

Slive: BCS Changes Couple Years Away

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Mike Slive helped pro­pose the plus-one plan to find a national cham­pion in foot­ball and says actual change remains a cou­ple years away even if every­one can agree on changes to the Bowl Cham­pi­onship Series. The South­east­ern Con­fer­ence com­mis­sioner said Wednes­day a deci­sion could be made later this year but cau­tioned it’s pre­ma­ture to spec­u­late on what changes might be made. He says they need time to sit down and ana­lyze plans with dis­cus­sions needed among the conferences. “Really a lot of this dis­cus­sion is pre­ma­ture,... 

Memphis Accepts Invite to Big East

By RALPH D. RUSSO, Col­lege Foot­ball Writer The Big East has acquired all the pieces needed to build a newcoast-to-coast con­fer­ence. Putting them all together, though, is going to take awhile. The con­fer­ence wanted to rebuild itself into a 12-team foot­ball league thatcan hold a cham­pi­onship game, and Mem­phis offi­cially became that 12th mem­ber onWednes­day when it accepted an invite it has long coveted. But the new Big East isn’t sched­uled to be fully func­tional until the 2015foot­ball sea­son. As for the next three years, what the Big East will look likeis anybody’s... 

UNLV Coach Hauck Picks New Coordinators

LAS VEGAS — UNLV announced that coach Bobby Hauck has shuf­fled his staff, mov­ing tight ends coach Brent Myers to offen­sive coor­di­na­tor and defen­sive backs coach J.D. Williams to defen­sive coordinator. The moves were announced Tuesday. Rob Pheni­cie, who was offen­sive coor­di­na­tor dur­ing Hauck’s first two sea­sons, will con­tinue to be quar­ter­backs coach. Kraig Paul­son, who was defen­sive coor­di­na­tor, will become assis­tant head coach and con­tinue to coach out­side linebackers. The Rebels have gone 4–21 in Hauck’s first two sea­sons as coach. BetLM's sports betting news features unique sports betting articles as well as current sports news compiled from leading wire services....