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Former NFL wide receiver Braylon Edwards rescued an 80-year-old man who was being assaulted inside a Michigan YMCA locker room this past Friday. 

Edwards, a standout receiver at Michigan who enjoyed an eight-year NFL career, stopped a 25-year-old from further assaulting the elderly man. Edwards said he initially heard an argument about music and how loud it was being played. The argument escalated to the point where Edwards heard pushing and shoving. 

“Once I heard a thud, that’s when I got up and turned around,” Edwards said, via Click on Detroit.com. “And then I see the guy for what I was thinking was reaching for a phone underneath the victim grabs the back of the victim’s head by the hair, and he was about to slam it down on the counter.” 

Edwards said the man who was assaulting the elderly man fought him as well. He has since been arrested and remains in custody. 

The 80-year-old is in the hospital but is expected to be OK. Edwards said that he is hoping to meet him after he is discharged. 

“At the end of the day, that’s what you do,” Edwards said. “My mom, my grandmother, my father. In the moment … these are the people that you think about.” 

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Braylon Edwards saved a few errant passes in his historic career with the Michigan Wolverines and in the NFL, but probably made the his most important save yet when he intervened in an attack on Friday.

Detroit news outlet WDIV reported that the wide receiver saved an 80-year-old’s life in a YMCA locker room in Farmington Hills, Mich. about 30 minutes outside of the “Motor City.” While recounting the story, Edwards said that he walked into the locker room after his workout and heard a little bit of scuffling about “someone playing some music too loud.” He decided to mind his own business before he could tell the situation escalated.

“I heard a thud,” he said. “That’s what got me up. That’s what got me to turn around.”

Edwards said he found a 25-year-old man beating up the 80-year-old victim.

“He grabs the back of the victim’s head by the hair and he was about to slam it down on the counter,” the Wolverines’ all-time leading receiver recalled. “I grabbed him, subdued him.”

Edwards said that he “didn’t know it was that serious” and thought maybe the extent of the victim’s injuries was a concussion. He realized that he probably did save the man’s life after police told him about the severity of the situation.

“At the end of the day, I was just, that’s what you do,” he said. “People go to work out, they have a good time, they live 80 years, and this isn’t how they expect for something maybe (to) take their life. … My mom, my grandmother, my father, in that moment, when you come back home, these are the people you think about.”

The names of the victim and the alleged assailant have not been made public. Police said the 25-year-old man ran away from the YMCA after the incident and local schools were placed on lockdown. The suspect was arrested for attacking both the older man and someone who stopped the fight, who turned out…

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The expanded College Football Playoff is beginning to look like an invitational.

The Big Ten and SEC have grown so powerful and so bold, they are acting like the world is not enough; they’ll settle for most of the expanded playoff bracket.

The two giants have united like collegiate Wonder Twins, and their demands are extensive. The conferences, which at one point sought as many as four automatic berths each — an allowance perhaps never even considered before — in a further-expanded CFP bracket, now seem to be OK with three each. Well, that’s if the Big Ten and SEC are also automatically granted the top two seeds (which would come with byes) in a 14-team iteration of an expanded bracket that would begin in 2026. 

“It just means more” has never meant more. 

This is about threading a needle through access and money and scheduling and outrage and, well, egos too. There will be plenty of that in the coming days until this latest CFP disturbance is settled. And surely, some will question that teams should need to earn those top two spots by more than their conference affiliation.

Still, a hard truth must be acknowledged: The Big Ten and SEC really do run things. They really do deserve at least some dispensation. That’s tough to swallow in a sport like college football, which has occasionally been dominated by swagger and smack talk off the field.

What’s difficult is to watch the CFP sausage being made and stuffed through a 14-team bracket.

The 10 FBS commissioners and Notre Dame’s administrator, who will continue to meet this month as the CFP Management Committee, are under a hard deadline. ESPN needs to know what it is on the table as it seeks to extend its media rights agreement with the CFP. The conferences need to figure out how they…

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Tennessee offered a scholarship to 2026 cornerback Jaelen Waters.

“Extremely blessed to receive an offer from the University of Tennessee,” Waters said.

The 6-foot-2, 170-pound cornerback prospect is from Armwood High School in Seffner, Florida.

There are not recruiting rankings currently for Waters from Rivals, 247Sports, On3 or ESPN.

The Vols are the fifth Southeastern Conference school to offer Waters. Ole Miss was the first SEC school to offer a scholarship on Dec. 15, 2023.

Waters has scholarship offers from Tennessee, Notre Dame, USC, Colorado, Texas, West Virginia, UCF, South Carolina, Florida, Ole Miss, Michigan State, Iowa State, Penn State, USF, Toledo, Jackson State and Western Michigan.

Western Michigan was the first school to offer a scholarship to Waters on Oct. 10, 2023.

Story originally appeared on Vols Wire

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As the NCAA struggles to find an identity amid this changing landscape, court battles stir and name, image and likeness engulfs the sport, some things remain the same. The Bulldogs are on track to win three national championships in four years as a top-ranked recruiting class will bolster a top-15 transfer portal class that should help shore up a program still fuming after losing by three to Alabama in the SEC Championship Game and missing out on the CFP. Way-too-early ranking: 1 
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Ryan Day has accomplished one of the most significant roster flips in the short history of the transfer portal. Since we last ranked the Buckeyes, Day has landed one of the best portal classes in the country, changed offensive coordinators — twice — and gotten millions in support from NIL collectives. This is how it looks when you have to beat Michigan … or else. Way-too-early ranking: 6 
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Feb. 29—On the day when the official schedule for Washington State’s football team was announced, about the only thing WSU President Kirk Schulz could guarantee about the future for Cougar fans: They get some “terrific” new college towns to visit on Saturdays.

Schulz joined newly appointed Pac-12 Commissioner Teresa Gould for a news conference Thursday where they vowed to keep fighting to ensure that the conference’s only remaining members, Oregon State and WSU, continue to get a chance to play for championships and a share of revenues amid a college landscape that is changing seemingly by the hour.

Gould sat for her first meeting last week as part of the College Football Playoff selection committee when it decided on a new 12-team playoff system for the upcoming and 2025 seasons. Of those 12 teams, five slots will be reserved for the five-highest ranked conference champions and seven at-large selections.

Gould noted that college presidents and conference commissioners have agreed on nothing for 2026 and beyond.

“I think none of us would have ever anticipated the amount of change that is going on right now,” said Gould, responding to a question. “Yesterday looks different than today. And, who knows what the headline is going to be tomorrow.”

Gould officially takes over Friday for former Commissioner George Kliavkoff, who was ousted by a vote of Schulz and Oregon State president Jayathi Murthy, who are the only two remaining Pac-12 governing board members after the conference’s other 10 schools departed for the Big Ten, Big 12 and Atlantic Coast conferences.

Schulz and Murthy hired Gould, who had been serving as the senior associate commissioner under Kliavkoff.

“Just to be clear, we are very much in the infancy stages of talking about what happens beyond 2026,” Gould said, referring to the College Football Playoff…

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CAITLIN CLARK

Sorry, record book writers: Caitlin Clark isn’t slowing down. Under two weeks after breaking Kelsey Plum‘s NCAA women’s scoring record, the Iowa superstar passed Lynette Woodard for most points in major-program women’s college basketball history.

It requires a bit of explanation: Woodard starred for Kansas from 1977-81, racking up 3,649 career points. However, the NCAA did not begin sponsoring women’s basketball until 1982, so Woodard is nowhere to be found in NCAA record books; she played when the sport was under the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women.

This has caused Woodard to go unfairly unrecognized for years, but Clark’s excellence has helped shine some light on just how good Woodard was. When asked what she would say when Clark broke her record, Woodard responded, “Hey,…

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BYU Cougars quarterbacks coach Aaron Roderick watches from he sidelines as Jake Retzlaff works with the offense as BYU’s football team practices in Provo on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023. The Cougars open spring camp Thursday, which is when the battle for QB1 officially begins. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News

Get ready for what is arguably going to be the most important starting quarterback competition in BYU football coach Kalani Sitake’s nine-year tenure.

The madness begins Thursday, as the Cougars begin spring practices in Provo — most likely at the Indoor Practice Facility, since the calendar, and the weather, say it is Feb. 29 — with one primary goal in mind: Get better, and fast.

Finding a capable, playmaking, turnover-avoiding starting quarterback will go a long way toward BYU realizing that objective, and erasing last year’s disappointing 5-7 campaign that showed the Cougars weren’t quite ready to compete in the Big 12.

“So Gerry (Bohanon) and Jake (Retzlaff) will get the bulk of the reps, and then we will find ways to get Cade (Fennegan), Ryder (Burton) and Treyson (Bourguet) in there to see who we think the third guy is.”

BYU offensive coordinator Aaron Roderick

So who’s it going to be?

Offensive coordinator Aaron Roderick spoke exclusively to the Deseret News last week and said, “Spring ball will be a competition between Jake (Retzlaff) and Gerry (Bohanon) for the starting job. It is a two-way race right now.”

Retzlaff is the incumbent, of sorts, after he spelled an ailing Kedon Slovis and started in BYU’s final four games, all losses. Bohanon is the well-traveled, experienced QB who began his career at Baylor before losing the starting job to Blake Shapen in Waco and transferring to South Florida.

Roderick said the coaching staff didn’t scour the transfer portal for a QB this offseason as…

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