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SEC announces start of basketball seasons just past Christmas

September 29, 2020Tom Johnson

The office of the Southeastern Conference has announced start dates of December 29th and 30th for the men’s basketball season, with the women’s basketball season among the 14 member schools, […]

Titans have NFL’s first COVID-19 outbreak: 8 positive tests

September 29, 2020Tom Johnson

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans suspended in-person activities through Friday after the NFL says three Titans players and five personnel tested positive for the coronavirus, becoming the first […]

No. 2 Crimson Tide rolls on offense to 38-19 win over Mizzou

September 28, 2020Tom Johnson

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Nick Saban has never lost a season opener while coaching Alabama. Then again, he’d never had one like this. Yet despite an offseason largely scrapped by […]

The Pacific-12 Conference is made up of 12 schools in the western U.S., based from Colorado, Utah, and Arizona to up and down the Pacific Coast

Pandemic-proof: Fall college football revived on West Coast

September 28, 2020Tom Johnson

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – A major college football season that was in peril six week ago as conferences succumbed to concerns about COVID-19 is reconstituting. The West Coast got back […]

Missouri Tigers picked next-to-last in SEC East by media

September 28, 2020Tom Johnson

The media members representing the Southeastern Conference, in preseason polling, have picked the University of Missouri’s football program to finish in sixth place in the seven-team SEC East, ahead of […]

Notre Dame-Wake Forest postponed; Mountain West eyes fall

September 23, 2020Tom Johnson

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) – As the Atlantic Coast Conference worked Tuesday to reschedule another league game postponed because of a COVID-19 outbreak within one of its teams, the Mountain West […]

AP source: NFL fines 3 coaches, clubs for unmasked coaches

September 23, 2020Tom Johnson

NEW YORK (AP) – A person with knowledge of the punishment tells The Associated Press that at least three NFL head coaches have been fined $100,000 for violating the league’s […]

Michigan-Ohio State finale highlights 3rd Big Ten schedule

September 21, 2020Tom Johnson

ROSEMOUNT, Ill. (AP) – The Big Ten’s third football schedule of the 2020 season is highlighted by Michigan-Ohio State on Dec. 12, the final day of the conference’s regular-season and […]

The University of Georgia is a member of the Southeastern Conference, based out of Athens, Georgia

Hit by COVID-19, Gallatin softball rearranges schedule in hopes of completing GRC slate

September 19, 2020Tom Johnson

The Gallatin Lady Bulldogs softball season, off to a promising start, was recently hit by news of a positive COVID-19 test, halting the program’s momentum while players and coaches went […]

NCAA basketball season set to open day before Thanksgiving

September 18, 2020Tom Johnson

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – The NCAA men’s and women’s basketball season will begin Nov. 25, the day before Thanksgiving. The Division I Council voted Wednesday to push the start date back […]