- Yahoo Sports
Nebraska's identity crisis proves Huskers are no longer a top-tier gig
The University of Nebraska football program lost to Northern Illinois on Saturday, the first time in 13 years a team from outside a power conference won in Lincoln. Nebraska abruptly announced the firing of athletic director Shawn Eichorst on Thursday, the first step in an inevitable overhaul of the athletic department. A new athletic director is going to come in and hire a new football coach.
- Sports Illustrated
Trump Calls on NFL Owners to Fire Players Who Protest, and Mocks Efforts to Make the Game Safer
On the same day the media was filed with stories about a 27-year-old former NFL player who committed suicide and was found to have severe degenerative brain damage—likely much or all of it from football—the president decried how big hits have been taken out of football. In the same week Yahoo Sports broke a story that four NFL players asked commissioner Roger Goodell to declare November a month to support players’ burgeoning social activism, the president, cursing, said he would “love to see” an NFL owner fire a player who protested during the national anthem. “This union … will never back down when it comes to protecting the constitutional rights of our players as well as their safety as men who compete in a game that exposes them to great risks,” wrote the NFL Players Association’s executive director, DeMaurice Smith.
- NBC Sports: CollegeFootballTalk
Louisville to be without leading receiver vs. Kent State
Regardless, Old Dominion will travel to Blacksburg for an afternoon game at Lane Stadium in Week 4 later on today. Thanks to first-half struggles in ODU’s Week 3 loss to North Carolina, Bobby Wilder inserted Steven Williams at quarterback in the second half and he performed admirably in his first collegiate action — 139 yards passing, two passing touchdowns in two quarters of relief work. Williams, it was confirmed earlier this week, will remain under center this weekend against Tech and will be tackling his first career start against the Bud Foster-led Hokies defense. Based on our research, the 6-4, 196-pound Williams would become just the fourth FBS player in the last four-plus decades to start at quarterback before the age of 18.
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- Seminoles lose to N.C. State, start 0-2 for first time since 1989
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