Former Wisconsin wide receiver Markus Allen committed to Eastern Michigan on Friday. Allen played with the Badgers from 2021-22. He departed the program in June of 2023, though did not immediately find a D-1 home and has since played at Butler Community College. Related: Predicting Wisconsin 2024 player ratings in EA Sports College Football 25 His collegiate path has been …

May 17, 2024, 02:31 PM ET PRAGUE — Brady Tkachuk scored a goal and added three assists, Cole Caufield scored twice and the United States clinched a playoff-round berth with a 4-1 win over Poland in preliminary round play at the men’s world hockey championships on Friday. Michigan State goalie Trey Augustine stopped 20 shots, including all 11 he faced …

Getty Images Almost immediately upon joining the Minnesota Vikings, T.J. Hockenson took his game to a new level. After arriving via trade midway through the 2022 season, the veteran tight end racked up 60 catches for 519 yards and three scores across 10 games with his new team. He was even better in 2023, operating as the team’s No. 1 …

Jamey Chadwell was an institution in the state of South Carolina. Outside of a year sabbatical at Delta State, he served as head coach for 13 straight years at in-state institutions, winning at every level. In 2020, he swept national coach of the year honors after leading Coastal Carolina to an unprecedented 11-0 regular season. Had the 12-team College Football …

Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker recently drew negative attention to himself for a commencement speech he gave at Benedictine College in which he discussed traditional gender roles — masculinity and motherhood — and Pride Month, among other things. “For the ladies present today … you should be proud of all that you have achieved to this point in your …

Total Access is no more. The signature studio show, a weeknight fixture on NFL Network since its inception, has ended its run. The final show was tonight. Questions first swirled when the show disappeared from the schedule for a full week earlier this year. More recently, reports emerged based on a recent round of layoffs that the show was being …

Last offseason, the Dallas Cowboys lost their starting tight end in free agency, as they allowed Dalton Schultz to leave for a deal with the Houston Texans. In Schultz’s place, Dallas turned to 2022 fourth-round pick Jake Ferguson, who had just 19 catches for 174 yards and two touchdowns to his name at the time. The gamble paid off, with …

Alabama softball continues with action in the Tuscaloosa Regional on Saturday. It is the 19th-straight NCAA regional Alabama has hosted at Rhoads Stadium and the 25th straight NCAA tournament appearance for the Crimson Tide. Among the four-team field of competition at the Tuscaloosa Regional is Alabama, USC Upstate, Clemson and Southeastern Louisiana. The nationally 14-seeded Crimson Tide (34-17) defeated USC Upstate …

Smith details pressures of being No. 1 pick with 49ers originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Former 49ers quarterback Alex Smith entered the NFL with the weight of the world on his shoulders, an experience he opened up about while addressing the crowd during Thursday’s Dwight Clark Legacy Series event at the California Theatre in San Jose. San Francisco …

Ryan S. Clark, NHL reporterMay 18, 2024, 02:26 AM ET CloseRyan S. Clark is an NHL reporter for ESPN. Matt Duchene’s heroics Friday put his current team in the Western Conference finals at the expense of the team that drafted him more than a decade ago. An unmarked Duchene flicked his wrists, and in less than a second scored the …

The Nebraska Cornhuskers are the latest program to offer Texas wide receiver Jordan Clay, who is part of the 2026 recruiting cycle. Clay, a 6-foot-3, 190-pound wide receiver out of James Madison High School in San Antonio, is considered a four-star recruit by 247Sports and ESPN, while On3 and Rivals rank him as a three-star prospect. Other notable programs that …

The Seahawks’ entire 2024 NFL draft class is under contract. Seahawks sixth-round tackle Michael Jerrell signed his contract on Friday, and that means all eight players the Seahawks drafted are now under contract. Since the adoption of the Collective Bargaining Agreement with a rookie wage scale in 2011, rookie holdouts are rare and rookies are almost always signed before training …

The Chicago Bears are the only team in NFL history that has never had a quarterback throw for 4,000 yards in a single season. Could that change this season with the arrival of former USC star Caleb Williams? Craig Carton opined that Williams, the Bears’ first overall pick in this year’s draft, will indeed end the drought for Chicago next …

Spring is in the rearview mirror for Michigan football, which had to retool more this offseason than in recent years, on the heels of last year’s national championship. Most of the key figures from the best three-year run in program history are gone, including former coach Jim Harbaugh to the NFL’s Los Angeles Chargers and the majority of the staff …

FRISCO, Texas —  Everyone handles grief, depression and anxiety differently in life, but sometimes the biggest thing someone suffering with those emotions can hear is that someone else dealt with a similar issue and found a way to get through it.  That was certainly the case for the Dallas Cowboys’ International Fan of the Year Eduardo Flores. He had the …