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California’s state-funded travel ban to discriminating states raises mild football scheduling concerns
The state of California is banning state-funded travel to the states of Texas, Alabama, Kentucky, and South Dakota. Those states are added to the previous state-funded travel bans that included Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Tennessee due to what California lawmakers say are laws that allow for discrimination against gay and transgender people. So what does this have to do with college football? My colleague, Bryan, notes this latest decision from the state means scheduling any potential road games for a handful of schools just got a tad trickier. This development poses a couple of issues for some California schools to address moving forward. San Jose State is the school affected by
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Ex-K-State WR involved in release imbroglio transfers to Appalachian State
After public pressure helped get him out of the Little Apple, Corey Sutton is going to resume his collegiate playing career on the East Coast. On his personal Twitter account Friday night, Sutton (pictured, No. 12) announced that he is “[b]lessed to say I will be continuing my collegiate career at Appalachian State University.” The rising sophomore will have to sit out the 2017 season because of arcane and one-sided NCAA transfer rules. Beginning in 2018, he’ll have three seasons of eligibility remaining. The move comes three weeks or so after a very noisy exit from his first college football home. In early June, the transferring wide receiver revealed in an interview that Kansas State had denied
- Orlando Sentinel
Jameis Winston returns to Tallahassee to help lead youth camp, charitable events
Jameis Winston has made a few trips back to Florida State since he left the Seminoles after the 2014 season, but his visit on Saturday was a bit different. The former FSU and current Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback was back in Tallahassee this weekend to volunteer at the inaugural Elite Championship Camp on Florida State’s campus. The event, which was organized by Richard Terrell Rabb, saw 200 middle school students participate in a free-of-charge football skills camp which saw them get tips and football advice from current NFL and FSU players. Winston, a massive figure in Tallahassee, is a longtime family friend of Raab, spearheading the volunteer effort both ahead of and during Saturday’s event.
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