LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — From the familiar feel of West Texas winds to being closer to his three daughters, Texas Tech basketball coach Chris Beard says returning to the school he considers home was too great to resist. So goodbye Las Vegas, hello Lubbock. “It’s like when Bear Bryant left Texas A&M for Alabama,” Beard […]

LAS VEGAS (AP) — UNLV moved swiftly to hire a basketball coach after Chris Beard’s sudden exit, agreeing with New Mexico State’s Marvin Menzies on a five-year contract Saturday. A former UNLV assistant, Menzies was one of the final candidates to replace Dave Rice, who was fired in January. Menzies’ contract must still be approved […]

STORRS, Conn. (AP) — UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma has been hospitalized with an undisclosed illness. The school released a statement saying the 62-year-old Auriemma had boarded a plane Saturday morning at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, but decided to deplane because he was not feeling well. The school says he was taken […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Loyola University plans to investigate its women’s basketball program after allegations of player mistreatment surfaced involving the team coached by Sheryl Swoopes. The investigation will be conducted by the university, team spokesman Leo Krause said Saturday. The details of the allegations have not been released, but Krause confirmed that 10 of the […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Memphis is turning to Tubby Smith to get the Tigers back to the NCAA Tournament, something the veteran coach already has done at five other schools. Smith shares those goals. And he has plans for much more. “The sky’s the limit for this program,” Smith said Thursday at his introductory press […]

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Less than two weeks after accepting the job at UNLV, Chris Beard is heading home to Texas. Back to Texas Tech, specifically. After a night of uncertainty surrounding Beard’s future, Texas Tech announced on Friday it has hired the coach who was previously an assistant there for 10 seasons. He will […]

Hey NCAA, why don’t you make Chris Beard sit out a year? Maybe even two. In yet another sign of how remarkably out of whack the whole state of college athletics is in this country, Beard left UNLV on Friday to take the head coaching job at Texas Tech — less than two weeks after […]

To understand how long Rice coach Wayne Graham has been around baseball, consider this: He recently told one of his players that he was there the day the slider was invented. The freshman believed him. The common breaking-ball pitch actually dates to the early 1900s, well before Graham’s time. Don’t judge young Dominic DiCaprio for […]

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — USF football seemed as if it was sliding backward in year three under coach Willie Taggart when the Bulls were soundly beaten last September at Maryland. Many of the players were still coping with the stabbing death of a former teammate less than two weeks earlier, but both Taggart and his […]

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — The family of a University of California, Berkeley, football player who died after a team drill in 2014 has settled a wrongful death lawsuit with the school system for $4.75 million, officials said Thursday. The parents of 21-year-old Ted Agu sued, saying their son shouldn’t have been in the strenuous workout […]