University of Mississippi

Notre Dame junior running back Chris James last week narrowed his list of favorite schools to Iowa, Pitt and Michigan State. But that was before Wisconsin offered a scholarship Monday afternoon. "I'm still looking hard at my top three," James said....

Local Golf Pro Salito's Son Lays Down The Law   By TOM YANTZ, tyantz@courant.com The Hartford Courant   Ralph Salito won't attend his son Mathew's graduation from the New England School of Law Friday in Boston. Neither will Matthew. That's because...

Ralph Salito won't attend his son Mathew's graduation from the New England School of Law Friday in Boston. Neither will Mathew. That's because dad will play and his son will be caddie in the Senior PGA Championship at Bellerive Country Club in St....

Baseball practice ended at Edgewater on Monday, and senior first baseman Zach Vandergrift headed to strength coach Lee Prince's house for another workout. Three days a week of weight training and pushups since the start of summer, combined with hours in...

One of the state's top underclassmen will have to wait to start his season. Oak Park junior defensive end Nile Sykes (6-foot-3, 225 pounds) suffered a leg injury during a preseason practice and expects to miss at least three to four weeks. "It's a...

Nyles Morgan's talent is unquestioned. But prod the high school junior for insight on his favorite colleges and the stoic Morgan won't divulge much. Plenty of questions remain in the recruitment of one of the nation's best linebackers. Has he narrowed...

ADDISON, Ill. – Jamarco Jones could only watch from the side with his left arm in a sling. But the junior offensive lineman from Chicago De La Salle still came out to the Nike Football Training Camp in the Chicago suburb of Addison on Sunday. Even...

It seems that with every top quarterback in the state of Florida there comes a certain comparison. Former Oviedo Hagerty star and current Florida starting QB Jeff Driskel heard it. And it’s no different for Zack Darlington. When Ohio State...

Way back in 2002, Dr. Judah Folkman hit upon a tantalizing weight-loss strategy for obese mice. When given daily injections of a drug designed to fight cancer, their fat melted away. The higer the dose they got, the more fat they lost. Some of the obese...

The all-important spring evaluation period began Monday. Look for some top programs to make stops at several schools in the area from now until the end of May. Colleges are allowed to make two in school visits — one for athletic purposes and...

Crete-Monee senior receiver Laquon Treadwell made his third and final official visit during the weekend to Oklahoma State. If Treadwell's Twitter posts are an indication, it looks like the Cowboys made quite an impression. Treadwell on Sunday night...

Bill Carmody has elevated Northwestern basketball from Point C to Point B. Or is it Z to B? He took over after Kevin O'Neill's 1999-2000 misfits went 5-25. The point guard, Collier Drayton, was legally blind in one eye. Two years later, Carmody's crew...