His Heisman, along with Southern Cal's 2005 national championship, mean nothing now

A former assistant football coach at the University of New Mexico has filed a civil rights lawsuit stemming from an altercation involving coach Mike Locksley.

Clemson athletic director Terry Don Phillips says the NCAA was on campus this week to talk with two members of the football team.

Tennessee running back Bryce Brown asked coach Derek Dooley for a release from his scholarship specifically to transfer to Kansas State, Arthur Brown, Bryce's father, said Friday.

New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush said Saturday it's time to put the controversy from his days at the University of Southern California behind him.

Having been released from his letter of intent by USC this week, linebacker Glen Stanley announced Friday that he will head to Florida State.

UCLA offensive coordinator Norm Chow received a two-year extension.

Titans coach Jeff Fisher dismissed Lane Kiffin's assessment that the two had somehow clarified the issues that led the team to sue Kiffin and USC over the departure of assistant coach Kennedy Pola.

The NCAA Amateurism Cabinet has begun looking at ways NCAA athletes could have contact with agents and retain their eligibility, but no timetable has been set for any new rules to be put into effect.

Florida State and the NCAA are paying $325,000 in legal fees to compensate the attorneys of news media companies that sued to force the release of documents in the Seminoles' academic cheating scandal.

Former Oregon QB Jeremiah Masoli is expected to be admitted to one of three graduate programs at the University of Mississippi, which should make him eligible to play as early as this season, a source told ESPN's Joe Schad.

Boise State University President Bob Kustra says his remarks about a bitter football rivalry with the University of Idaho, in which he called Vandal culture "nasty" and "inebriated," came out harsher than he intended.

Texas is building its running game after the departure of Colt McCoy.

Oklahoma State safety Victor Johnson will face a possession of a controlled substance charge in addition to an accusation of obstructing a police officer leveled against him after his weekend arrest.

Former Oklahoma State star Bob Fenimore, who was the top pick in the 1947 NFL draft, has died in Stillwater. He was 84.

Former Oakland Raiders defensive back Jack Tatum has died, Tatum's alma mater Ohio State reported Tuesday.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- A former assistant football coach has sued the University of New Mexico and coach Mike Locksley over an altercation between the two men last year.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Florida State and the NCAA are paying $325,000 in legal fees to compensate the attorneys of news media companies that sued to force the release of documents in the Seminoles' academic cheating scandal.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Clemson athletic director Terry Don Phillips said Friday that the NCAA had been on the Tigers' campus this week to talk with two members of the football team.

Former Oregon quarterback Jeremiah Masoli has accepted an invitation from Mississippi coach Houston Nutt to visit the school this weekend, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on Friday.

Long the champion of small schools who wanted to play the elite, Boise State's rise to prominence has made it as arrogant as those who once ignored them, writes Andy Staples.

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- Oregon has been picked to win the Pac-10 in the preseason media poll, edging longtime favorite Southern California by three points.

Jeremiah Masoli is asking you to open your mind, to consider the possibility that, regardless of what you've read or heard, he is not a thug. That would be an easier sell, of course, if he hadn't spent nearly three months in a juvenile facility in 2005 for robbery; if he hadn't pled guilty in March of this year to burglarizing a fraternity house; if his career as the starting quarterback -- and a potential Heisman contender -- at Oregon hadn't ended last month after police found him driving with marijuana in his car.

NEW YORK (AP) -- For years people in the Pac-10 -- from players to fans -- have complained about a lack of recognition and a so-called East Coast bias that caused the conference to be under-appreciated nationally.

I received more than 600 reader e-mails this past week -- more than during most weeks of the actual football season -- and at least 90 percent of them were outdated by the time I sat down to write this week's Mailbag. Sorry that you wasted your time, folks. If it makes you feel better, at least 90 percent of the many words I've written about realignment over the past several months are now moot, too.

Coach Jeff Fisher has one word to describe the theory that the Titans sued Southern California because the NFL team is in the same state as Lane Kiffin's last employer. Absurd. The Titans accuse USC and Kiffin of breaching the contract of running backs coach Kennedy Pola a week before training camp.

A former assistant football coach has sued the University of New Mexico and coach Mike Locksley over an altercation between the two men last year. J.B. Gerald filed the lawsuit Friday in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque against Locksley and the University of New Mexico Board of Regents. According to the lawsuit, Locksley attacked Gerald on Sept.

Former Oregon quarterback Jeremiah Masoli has accepted an invitation from Mississippi coach Houston Nutt to visit the school this weekend, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on Friday. Masoli made the decision early Friday morning to visit the Oxford campus. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because Masoli has not yet enrolled in school.

Clemson athletic director Terry Don Phillips said Friday that the NCAA had been on the Tigers' campus this week to talk with two members of the football team. Phillips issued a statement Friday about the visit, but did not say what the inquiry was about. Phillips also did not identify the athletes, but said Clemson is cooperating fully.

Florida State and the NCAA are paying $325,000 in legal fees to compensate the attorneys of news media companies that sued to force the release of documents in the Seminoles' academic cheating scandal. The records were part of an NCAA investigation that eventually implicated 61 athletes and stripped the school of victories in 10 men's and women's sports.

Bowl Championship Series executive director Bill Hancock says the defections of Nebraska and Colorado from the Big 12 will not influence the BCS. Hancock spoke Friday at the Mid-American Conference's media day at Ford Field in Detroit. Nebraska announced recently that it will leave the conference for the Big Ten, while Colorado plans to join the Pac-10, along with Utah.

Even without their star quarterback, the Oregon Ducks ended Southern California's seven-year reign as the Pac-10's preseason favorite. A year after breaking USC's seven-year stranglehold on the Pac-10, coach Chip Kelly's defending champions were picked to win it again in the preseason media poll Thursday.

There isn't a Wesley Johnson in the transfer class of 2010, but that doesn't mean this group lacks potential punch. Andy Glockner profiles a pair of New Mexico newbies and five others.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) -- West Virginia University says basketball coach Bob Huggins' rib-breaking fall occurred because medication taken on an empty stomach left him lightheaded.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Rick Pitino never said a woman who claimed the Louisville basketball coach got her pregnant after a one-night stand had to get an abortion but did advise she "go out of town" to get medical care, his longtime aide told a jury Friday.

PHOENIX(AP) The NCAA has placed the University of Arizona men's basketball program on two year's probation and vacated 19 wins from the 2007-08 season for violations involving Hall of Fame coach Lute Olson.

EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) -- Kevin Coble, one of Northwestern's top players, has chosen to skip his senior season after sitting out with a broken left foot last year.

Seth Davis spent three days in Las Vegas checking out some of the finest players from the college and high school ranks. Here are his observations, with a little help from an NBA scout.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Drexel University athletic officials indefinitely suspended two basketball players charged in an armed robbery at a fellow student's apartment last week.

KANSAS CITY, Mo.(AP) -- The National Association of Basketball Coaches said Friday this will be the last year its members can have financial relationships with the Harold Pump Foundation, a charity run by basketball power brokers David and Dana Pump.

NEWARK, N.J.(AP) -- Former Seton Hall basketball coach Bobby Gonzalez has pleaded not guilty to a shoplifting charge.

Rick Pitino never said a woman who claimed the Louisville basketball coach got her pregnant after a one-night stand had to get an abortion but did advise she "go out of town" to get medical care, his longtime aide told a jury Friday. The aide, Tim Sypher, was testifying against the woman, his ex-wife Karen Cunagin Sypher.

West Virginia University says basketball coach Bob Huggins' rib-breaking fall occurred because medication taken on an empty stomach left him lightheaded. President James Clements and Athletic Director Oliver Luck told the Charleston Daily Mail that Huggins stood too quickly, tripped and fell into a table in his Las Vegas hotel room last week.

The NCAA added to self-imposed sanctions by Arizona's men's basketball program on Thursday, vacating 19 wins from the 2007-08 season and removing an additional scholarship for violations involving Hall of Fame coach Lute Olson. The university announced its sanctions in February, including the loss of a scholarship for 2011-12 and numerous cutbacks in recruiting visits over the next two...

Kevin Coble, one of Northwestern's top players, has chosen to skip his senior season after sitting out with a broken left foot last year. The team's leading scorer and rebounder for three years, Coble was injured in a preseason practice and had surgery. In a statement, he says his rehabilitation "is most important," and he will continue to follow the schedule set by his surgeon.

For years people in the Pac-10 -- from players to fans -- have complained about a lack of recognition and a so-called East Coast bias that caused the conference to be under-appreciated nationally. Commissioner Larry Scott, who grew up in New York on Long Island, decided that instead of complaining it was time for the league to do something about it.

Drexel University athletic officials indefinitely suspended two basketball players charged in an armed robbery at a fellow student's apartment last week. Starting point guard Jamie Harris and backup forward Kevin Phillip turned themselves in to police Monday to face robbery, theft and weapons charges.

Israeli basketball team Maccabi Haifa has signed former Virginia guard Sylven Landesberg to a two-year contract. Maccabi Haifa owner Jeffrey Rosen said Sunday that signing Landesberg is a "great achievement" for the Super League team. The 6-foot-6-inch guard averaged 16.9 points and 5.5 rebounds at Virginia between 2008 and 2010, and represented the Sacramento Kings at the NBA Summer...

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer

Ceal Barry, associate athletic director at Colorado, has been chosen to chair the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Issues Committee for the coming year. The appointment was made by the committee and confirmed by the NCAA Division I Championships/Sports Management Cabinet on Thursday. Barry, in her fourth year as a committee member, will succeed North Caroilina's Janet Cone, who has...

Georgetown women's basketball coach Terri Williams-Flournoy has signed a contract extension through the 2014-15 season.