MORE: NFL not innocent in Deflategate | Warner: Scandals set terrible example | Brady says title not tainted Most players have been either silent or critical following the release of the Wells Report. Few have come out in support of Brady, or the Patriots. Ravens receiver Steve Smith avoided saying anything controversial. Kaepernick’s defense of Brady won’t matter; it was reported Friday that Brady will be suspended for his role in Deflategate, with the length of the suspension to be determined....

The free-agent NFL quarterback on Tuesday tweeted a four-word message in response to ESPN distancing itself from Hill’s tweet in which she called President Donald Trump a white supremacist. STEELE: Kaepernick letting NFL execs showing you who they really are Kaepernick has made countless enemies in and out of football with his political and social-justice stances. A portion of those non-football foes wasted little time flexing their Twitter muscles in response to his Hill comment....

The rules served as an introduction to the book, It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership, where he wrote that they originated as “a couple dozen snippets of paper shoved under the glass cover on my desktop—quotes and aphorisms that I had collected or made up over the years.” He wrote they first appeared as a sidebar in Parade magazine. “To my great surprise—the Thirteen rules caught on,” he wrote, noting their impact....

The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Kent Conrad, has said its intent is to impede only impostors, not collectors, and a legal group that examined the law says collectors appear to be safe. But enthusiasts worry that an outlaw market may emerge. “The law will force the collectors, archivists and historians to go underground,” says retired Capt. Dean Veremakis, USNR, who serves as the president of the Orders & Medals Society of America....

In a 2 p.m. ET tip on ESPN, No. 5 Louisville (14-1 SU, 3-9-2 ATS) visits No. 18 North Carolina (11-4 SU, 10-5 ATS). Line: North Carolina -4 The Cardinals struggle with their halfcourt offense: they beat Clemson 58-52 Wednesday, failing to come close to covering the 16.5-point spread. That won’t be a huge problem against the Tar Heels, who play at a fast pace. “These guys want to get up and down — they want to play,” coach Rick Pitino told the Louisville Courier-Journal about his athletes....

You won’t see UAB lead many college basketball stories, but the Blazers have earned it, and it’s a positive for a school that just dropped its football program. Louisiana Tech (17-5 SU, 8-9 ATS) at UAB (11-11 SU, 12-7 ATS), 9 p.m. ET, CBSSN Line: La Tech -3 The Blazers are only .500 on the season, No. 165 on the RPI index and No. 204 in the latest Don Best/Linemakers Power Ratings, but they’re 7-2 in C-USA, which puts them in third-place behind Louisiana Tech and Western Kentucky, who are both 8-1 in conference play....

That’s a long time from now, and we still have a ways to go to get through the abyss that is the offseason. That doesn’t mean we can’t think about all the great games, coaches and players who will dominate college football headlines in 2020. We’ve already looked at 20 questions about the schedule and the coaches. Today, we look at the players: MORE: All the FBS coaching changes for 2020...

The college football season is scheduled to start next week, and 76 FBS schools are set to participate through the next 14 weeks. MORE: Comparing the preseason AP, Coaches polls The schedule has a much different feel to it with the absence of 54 FBS schools because of COVID-19 concerns — including teams from the Big Ten, Pac-12, MAC and Mountain West — but the season is on for now....

The College Football Playoff semifinals will be on Dec. 31 this season. Those semifinals will be played at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl in Atlanta and the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Ariz. The College Football Playoff championship game is on Jan. 9 at SoFi Stadium in Glendale, Calif. SN will have full bowl projections for all 43 games in the coming weeks and throughout the season. With that in mind, here is the 2021-22 Bowl Season schedule....

The Wolverines won their second straight Big Ten championship with a 43-22 victory against Purdue. Michigan faces No. 3 TCU in the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Ariz. THE CASE FOR: Georgia | Ohio State | TCU Here is a closer look at Michigan’s playoff history, and the reasons why the Wolverines will (or won’t) win a national championship in 2022: Michigan’s College Football Playoff history Michigan is making its second playoff appearance under Harbaugh....

MORE: Get the latest NCAA odds & betting advice at Sports Insider College Football Playoff odds: LSU vs. Oklahoma LSU Tigers -13. 5 vs. Oklahoma Sooners, O/U 76 The oddsmakers nailed the total in this game as there has been no line movement either way. Although 68.9 percent of all total bets have come in on the under, the line hasn’t moved an inch. The same can’t be said for the spread though as 69....

This is your College Football Playoff, everyone. The system you had to have, the change you desperately needed, the future you’ve long anticipated. This is your playoff: 13 men and women in a room deciding the fate of a system and a sport — and not ever having to answer for a specific vote. MORE: Coach rankings — 1 to 128 | 2014 early Heisman | Oregon spring uniforms...

One of the biggest changes is shown in the College Football Playoff rankings with Ohio State moving ahead of LSU to overtake the No. 1 spot. Clemson and Georgia remain in spots three and four with Alabama sitting on the edge at number five. In the AP Poll rankings, the three undefeated teams, LSU, Ohio State and Clemson, remain in the top three but the difference from the CFP rankings is that LSU sits atop at No....

The Bayou Bengals capped one of the most impressive seasons in college football history on Monday, beating Clemson 42-25 to go 15-0 and win their first national title since the 2007 season. The win also snapped Clemson’s 29-game win streak, as well as a bid at consecutive national titles (and third in four seasons). That was the final piece to Sporting News’ final top 25 college football rankings of the 2019 season....

As a result, Ohio State fell to No. 11 and shifted from favorites to reach the College Football Playoff to outsiders needing to run the table. MORE: Week 9 College Football Playoff picture Elsewhere, No. 2 Clemson flexed on N.C. State, sending the previously 16th-ranked Wolfpack to No. 22 with a 41-7 blowout. Michigan — now No. 5 — became the team to beat in the Big Ten with a 21-7 win over then-No....

Chief among them: the top-five matchup between No. 4 Penn State and No. 3 Iowa in Kinnick Stadium. It is the only meeting between undefeated, ranked opponents in the Week 6 slate, and has incredible College Football Playoff implications. The winner will add a top-five victory to their resume and take over as the clear No. 3 team in the country behind No. 1 Alabama and No. 2 Georgia....

That includes No. 6 Washington vs. No. 9 Auburn (3:30 p.m., ABC) and No. 14 Michigan at No. 12 Notre Dame (7:30 p.m., NBC) on Saturday, No. 8 Miami vs. No. 25 LSU (7:30 p.m., NBC) on Sunday and No. 20 Virginia Tech at No. 19 Florida State on Monday. The first leg of the College Football Playoff race is here, and every Friday we will get you prepared for the weekend....

Four top-25 teams will go head-to-head Saturday. MORE: What’s at stake in four top-25 blockbuster showdowns Saturday’s slate of monster matchups starts at 7 p.m. ET with an ACC-SEC showdown between Clemson and Auburn. At 7:30 p.m., Baker Mayfield and Oklahoma travel to The Shoe in a must-win game against J.T. Barrett and Ohio State in what could be a career-defining game for both quarterbacks. Also at 7:30 p.m., Notre Dame looks to build off a solid Week 1 win by beating Georgia, which features the talented rushing duo of Nick Chubb and Sony Michel....

The College World Series features the eight teams to emerge from the Super Regional round of the NCAA Baseball Tournament. MORE: A look at Wednesday’s action Here’s how to watch the remaining games (all times Eastern): College World Series 2015 TV schedule Thursday, June 18 Game 10: LSU vs. TCU, 8 p.m. | ESPN Friday, June 19 Game 11: Virginia vs. Florida, 3 p.m. | ESPN2 Game 12: Vanderbilt vs....

Every year in the United States, healthcare providers diagnose around 150,000 new cases of colorectal cancer. Of those, 106,180 will be colon cancers, and 44,850 will be rectal cancers. Rates for new colorectal cancer cases fell an average of 1.8% yearly between 2010 and 2019. But this downward trend may not continue, as rates of new cases of colorectal cancer are rising in younger age groups. This article will highlight important facts and statistics you should know about colon, rectal, and colorectal cancer....