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Jackson State football coach and Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders recently had surgery on his injured foot which resulted in the amputation of two toes on his left foot. The procedure is discussed in an episode of the SMAC Entertainment and Barstool Sports series, “Coach Prime”, which detailed his three-week stay in a Mississippi hospital. Sanders, 54, had his big toe and the second toe on his foot amputated and he lost 35 pounds during his stay. Sanders was diagnosed with three femoral… Source link

Brian Griese is headed back to the league. The former “Monday Night Football” analyst is leaving ESPN and will become the next quarterbacks coach with the San Francisco 49ers, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Griese will replace Rich Scangarello in San Francisco, who left to become Kentucky’s offensive coordinator. It will mark his first coaching job in the NFL. Griese has been at ESPN since he retired in 2009. He spent a decade in the league, starting with the Denver Broncos after… Source link

Evan McPherson had a stellar rookie season. The Cincinnati Bengals kicker connected on 84.8% of his field goals, including a 9-of-11 clip from 50-plus yards. He hit five game-winning kicks, with two of them arriving in the playoffs. In fact, he was perfect in the postseason, where he hit all 14 of his attempts to tie a record set by none other than Adam Vinatieri. But Bengals special teams coordinator Darrin Simmons is displeased. In fact, he’s still steaming over his kicker’s actions in the… Source link

It’s not guaranteed, and it still has a lot of work to actually get there, but Duke has reportedly requested to land in the Midwest Regional of the NCAA tournament on Wednesday, according to both The Athletic’s Seth Davis and ESPN’s Wright Thompson. That request, should it work out, would allow longtime Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski to coach some of his final games with the school in his hometown of Chicago. Every school in the mix to earn the top overall seed in the NCAA tournament each… Source link

The son of Utah State football coach Blake Anderson has died, the university announced Tuesday. “On behalf of Utah State University, the athletic department and the football program, our thoughts and prayers are with coach Blake Anderson and his family following the tragic death of his son,” athletic director John Hartwell said in a statement. Details surrounding Anderson’s son’s death are unknown. Anderson had three children, two sons and a daughter, with his late wife, Wendy — who… Source link

The priciest tickets to college basketball’s most obscenely expensive game sold seven months ago during a charity auction benefiting cancer research. A close friend of Mike Krzyzewski forked over an eye-popping sum of money to secure four courtside tickets to the retiring Duke coach’s final home game on Saturday against North Carolina. Before anyone else at the V Foundation’s dinner gala could raise a numbered paddle to bid on the tickets, Michael Marks walked on stage unannounced with a… Source link

Less than a week after winning a Super Bowl and quickly returning to retirement, Eric Weddle has his next job lined up. Rancho Bernardo High School in San Diego announced Saturday that outgoing football head coach Tristan McCoy will be replaced by the longtime NFL safety. The announcement via Facebook: It’s official! The 2022 football season will be coach McCoy’s last as the RBHS head coach. Coach McCoy has led the Broncos’ football program the past 11 seasons, and built a reputation of… Source link

Jackson State coach Deion Sanders is already drawing plenty of attention as a coach. Sanders led Jackson State to an 11-win season his first year on the job. He was rewarded with the FCS Coach of the Year honor. That success has already propelled Sanders into NFL conversations. There were no reports Sanders interviewed during the most recent coaching cycle, or that teams contacted Sanders, but there was a belief Sanders could break into the NFL head coaching ranks soon. Problem is, Sanders… Source link

It appears that the final head coach opening of the offseason has been filled. According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the New Orleans Saints are promoting from within to replace Sean Payton, naming defensive coordinator Dennis Allen as their new head coach. Payton announced in late January that he would be stepping down as head coach, ending a 16-year run that included nine playoff appearances and one Super Bowl win. Allen, 49, has been the Saints’ defensive coordinator since 2015. Prior to that,… Source link

If Sean Payton could have borrowed a philosophical line from Aaron Rodgers this week, it might have been that whole “my future is a beautiful mystery” thing. That’s the wide-open, anything-is-possible attitude Payton was selling when he stepped down from his head-coaching duties with the New Orleans Saints this week. His coaching future? Who knows. Television? That sure sounds great. Orbiting the world of football? Absolutely — but with no solid plans for anything at the moment. It’s… Source link