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This is an article version of the CBS Sports HQ AM Newsletter, the ultimate guide to every day in sports. You can sign up to get it in your inbox every weekday morning here. 🏀 Good morning to all, but especially to … THE LOS ANGELES LAKERS Lakers-Timberwolves is shaping up to be one heck of a battle. Los Angeles…

The fit seemed perfect, natural, even a foregone conclusion. An in-state prospect, and a linebacker at that. If Penn State had a wheelhouse, Abdul Carter seemed to be in it, just like Micah Parsons was a few years earlier, and the Nittany Lions used that comparison in recruiting Carter. What was happening behind the scenes though were discussions about whether…

Two hours after quarterback Madden Iamaleava entered the transfer portal Tuesday, Arkansas athletics director Hunter Yurachek rattled his saber. It didn’t matter whether the statement was directed at the brother of superstar Nico Iamaleava, because the message was clear: pay your NIL buyout or face legal action. Players enrolled at schools across the country in January and cashed NIL checks,…

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — It’s the first day of college football’s spring transfer portal window, players are jumping in left and right, and Indiana coach Curt Cignetti is anxious. Coming off an 11-2 2024 season that included a College Football Playoff berth, life is pretty good in Bloomington. The university and its supporters are committed to investing in Indiana football, ensuring it…

Welcome to Marcello’s Mailbag, where college football is always at the top of the pile. This is a safe space to ask questions without fear or ridicule. No question is dumb, though there might be dumb answers. Luckily, I’m willing to be the jester, but more often than not, you’ll receive the information you need to understand the world’s most…

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — It’s the first day of college football’s spring transfer portal window, players are jumping in left and right, and Indiana coach Curt Cignetti is anxious. Coming off an 11-2 2024 season that included a College Football Playoff berth, life is pretty good in Bloomington. The university and its supporters are committed to investing in Indiana football, ensuring it…

Getty Images North Carolina canceled a scheduled visit with Georgia transfer Jaden Rashada just one day before he was set to arrive in Chapel Hill, sources tell CBS Sports. The visit had been finalized on Easter Sunday after the Tar Heels added former South…  read more www.cbssports.com

This is an article version of the CBS Sports HQ AM Newsletter, the ultimate guide to every day in sports. You can sign up to get it in your inbox every weekday morning here. 🏀 Good morning to all, but especially to … THE GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS AND THE REST OF THE GAME 1 WINNERS There will be a day…

The college football transfer portal is open and every coach outside of the SEC is keeping a close eye on the Tennessee Volunteers in this window. Nico Iamaleava made the shocking decision to leave the program after two seasons earlier this month. Now, head coach Josh Heupel and the Tennessee NIL collective are hunting for a replacement. SEC rules prohibit…

It’s NFL Draft season, which means that professional teams around the country are working frantically to evaluate prospects and put the finishing touches on their big boards. That also means a lot of the current discussion is centered around those players that have elite athletic traits, as the NFL Combine and individual pro days are an integral part of the…

UCLA (and former Appalachian State) quarterback Joey Aguilar plans to enter the transfer portal and sign with Tennessee, 247Sports confirms. It’s the latest domino to fall as a result of the Nico Iamaleava saga. Iamaleava, the top prospect in 247Sports’ transfer rankings, signed with the Bruins on Easter Sunday.  Aguilar is an experienced starter with proven production at the Group of…

Everything about the way Nico Iamaleava’s time at Tennessee ended and how he wound up at UCLA was a mess. Honestly, mess probably isn’t the best way to describe it, but all the words that would better describe the situation are typically frowned upon in polite company — so, we’ll stick with mess. It was a situation that exposed everything…

The Colorado Buffaloes announced this weekend they will be putting a statue of former football coach Bill McCartney outside Folsom Field at the end of the 2025 season. McCartney coached the Buffaloes from 1982-1994, amassing a 93-55-5 record and leading Colorado to its lone football national championship in 1990.  The news of his statue being unveiled this season came three…

Getty Images North Carolina just added a transfer portal quarterback in the form of South Alabama’s Gio Lopez, but the Tar Heels may not be done revamping their quarterback room. Georgia quarterback transfer Jaden Rashada is set to visit North Carolina on…  read more www.cbssports.com

Tennessee transfer quarterback Nico Iamaleava has signed with UCLA, the school announced on Sunday. Iamaleava’s transfer decision ends a significant couple of weeks for 247Sports’ top-ranked player in the portal. Tennessee moved on from the Southern California native ahead of its April 13 spring game and the opening of the spring portal window, ending a high-stakes standoff over NIL contract…

What do college football’s best teams need in the transfer portal ahead of the spring window? In the case of some schools, the answer is basically nothing, as it promises to be a slow spring portal cycle overall. But that’s not the case across the board, even in the top 10 of CBS Sports’ most recent Top 25 rankings, which…

Getty Images Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson’s patience seems to finally be paying off. Crimson Tide offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb revealed Monday following the team’s “A-Day” spring game over the weekend that Simpson would start if the Crimson Tide were…  read more www.cbssports.com

When Tennessee quarterback Nico Iamaleavea enters the transfer portal this spring, he will be the fourth of the five five-star quarterbacks in the heralded 2023 recruiting to transfer within their first two years on campus. Nos. 3 and 4 QBs Dante Moore and Jackson Arnold left for new opportunities — Moore from UCLA to Oregon after one year, Arnold from Oklahoma…

Getty Images Ryan Day is facing some questions this offseason, but they are not about Ohio State’s recent struggles against Michigan. Instead, they’re about the natural color of Day’s beard, and his wife and a former Buckeye have come to his defense. In recent…  read more www.cbssports.com