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RENO (CFB/Taylor) – Exiting spring practice as one of Nevada’s top backup cornerbacks thanks to his performance on the field, Malik James has now exited the football program entirely thanks to an off-field issue. According to KRNV-TV in Reno, James was arrested early Sunday morning and charged with driving under the influence and careless driving. Later that day, head coach Chris Ault announced that the senior had been dismissed for violating unspecified team rules. No details of what led to the police stop that preceded James’ arrest have been released. This was James’ second brush with the law in less [...]

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RENO (CFB/Taylor) – Exiting spring practice as one of Nevada’s top backup cornerbacks thanks to his performance on the field, Malik James has now exited the football program entirely thanks to an off-field issue. According to KRNV-TV in Reno, James was arrested early Sunday morning and charged with driving under the influence and careless driving. Later that day, head coach Chris Ault announced that the senior had been dismissed for violating unspecified team rules. No details of what led to the police stop that preceded James’ arrest have been released. This was James’ second brush with the law in less [...]

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SALT LAKE CITY (CFB/Newsfeed) — Western Athletic Conference officials expressed confidence Tuesday that the league would remain viable despite rumored defections. Utah State and San Jose State both acknowledged this week they are in discussions with the Mountain West Conference over realignment for 2013. Conference USA already is set to bring aboard Texas-San Antonio just months before the school was to begin its first season in the WAC. WAC interim commissioner Jeff Hurd subsequently issued a statement Tuesday saying he aware of the changing landscape in Division I athletics. He said the conference is evaluating membership options but would not [...]

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WACO, Texas (CFB/Newsfeed) – Suspended Baylor defensive end Tevin Elliott has been arrested and charged with sexual assault A Waco police statement says the 20-year-old lineman was arrested Monday on a warrant related to the reported sexual assault of a woman early the morning of April 15 at a Waco apartment complex. No bond has been set. Jail records list no attorney for Elliott. Baylor coach Art Briles announced Friday that Elliott was suspended indefinitely for violating an unspecified team policy. He didn’t elaborate and said he’d have no further comment. Over the past two seasons, Elliott started 11 of [...]

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AUBURN (CFB/Newsfeed) – The steady drumbeat of construction equipment pounded through Gene Chizik’s office Thursday morning, a sign of the work in progress at Auburn. That national championship 15-plus months ago didn’t mean the Tigers had finished the rebuilding job remarkably ahead of schedule. To Chizik, Auburn’s fourth-year coach, a positive sign his program is closing in on that completion came during the spring with all the competition for starting jobs on a team that has only a handful of vacancies. “If you look at our senior class this past year, it’s very representative of the crater there in our [...]

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(CFB/Kercheval) – Just days after CBSSports reported that Conference USA was close to adding UT-San Antonio, a former 1-AA program that is supposed to be headed for the WAC, more reports are surfacing that the Mountain West is also on the verge of plucking more teams from its beleaguered western athletic counterpart. The San Jose Mercury News and the Salt Lake Tribune report that San Jose State and Utah State are indeed close to joining the Mountain West, with the former article indicating an invite could come for the Spartans this week for the 2013-14 season. If/when this becomes official, [...]

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(CFB/Kercheval) – Just days after CBSSports reported that Conference USA was close to adding UT-San Antonio, a former 1-AA program that is supposed to be headed for the WAC, more reports are surfacing that the Mountain West is also on the verge of plucking more teams from its beleaguered western athletic counterpart. The San Jose Mercury News and the Salt Lake Tribune report that San Jose State and Utah State are indeed close to joining the Mountain West, with the former article indicating an invite could come for the Spartans this week for the 2013-14 season. If/when this becomes official, [...]

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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (CFB/Newsfeed) — Coming soon to a city near you: Penn State coach Bill O’Brien! The Nittany Lions’ new leader is embarking on a nine-day, 18-stop bus tour spread out over the next three weeks. It’s an extensive meet-and-greet road trip through seven states with an itinerary that might make a presidential candidate blush. First stop: Philadelphia on Monday. “I’m really looking forward to meeting everybody out on the road – the alumni, the fans – and really talking to people about my vision of the football program,” O’Brien said. It’s not unusual in one respect for a [...]

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