Big Ten to coaches: 'Stay put. Sideline isn't a stage.'

Watch your step, Jim Harbaugh. The rest of you Big Ten coaches, too. Conference officials are tired of coaches who treat the sideline like a stage and rage like Hamlet over calls they don't like — and they're prepared, finally, to do something about it. Of the several rules changes in store for the 2017 season, stricter enforcement of the coach's box may have the greatest impact of all. Violators are subject to a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalties. "We wouldn't take a tenth of what some coaches do and say from a player, and this is the adult in the game setting the example," coordinator of officials Bill Carollo said Tuesday at Big Ten media days. "That's kind of our thinking — 'Know what?

Jim Delany confirms Big Ten's massive TV deal, adjustment to FCS scheduling policy

Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany speaks at Big Ten NCAA college football Media Day in Chicago, Monday, July 24, 2017. It took a while, but the Big Ten’s television arrangements are finally official. At Big Ten Media Days Monday morning, commissioner Jim Delany confirmed — more than a year after it was first reported — that the conference has agreements in place with ESPN and Fox to continue to carry its games.

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  Big Ten allowing FCS teams back on the schedule has its definite winners and losers

  The Comeback
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  Big Ten modifies FCS scheduling model

  The Indianapolis Star

Ex-Michigan State football player suing Draymond Green

An incident involving one former Michigan State football player and one ex-Spartans basketball player continues to make headlines a year later. In mid-July last year, former MSU hoops star hoops star and current Golden State Warrior Draymond Green was arrested and charged with assault following an altercation at an East Lansing drinking establishment.  According to police reports at the time, the target of the alleged assault was Spartans cornerback Jermaine Edmondson. Fast-forward a little over 12 months later, and Edmondson, along with his girlfriend Bianca Williams, has filed a civil lawsuit in California against Green.  Per mlive.com, the attorney representing the plaintiffs “declined to

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  Draymond Green's Alleged Assault Victims Speak Out: 'There Are Nights When I Wake Up Crying'

  Sports Illustrated
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  Golden State Warriors' Draymond Green faces lawsuit over alleged assault from last year

  KGO – San Francisco