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A 20-year-old man wanted in connection to the shooting of Missouri football star Ahmad Hardy at an outdoor concert in Mississippi has been arrested. Rashodrick Harris of Wayne County, Mississippi, was taken into custody in Paducah, Kentucky, and was awaiting extradition. That's according to a spokesman for the Laurel Police Department. Hardy was shot in the upper leg on Sunday. At least one other person was injured. Hardy underwent surgery in Mississippi and has returned to Columbia, Missouri. Three people of interest who were taken into custody Sunday have been released with no charges.
Team bus drivers like Jackie McCloud, Courtney Ellis and Larry Thurman are more than just drivers; they’re part of the team. When the Kentucky baseball team wins, McCloud celebrates with the Wildcats and belly-bumps them. Ellis gives pep talks and leads cheers in the Delta State dugout. Thurman drove TCU athletes for nine years and says drivers who distance themselves from their teams are missing out.
The NCAA Division I men’s soccer season will be split between the fall and spring with the national tournament moving to the spring starting in 2027-28. The sport’s oversight committee adopted the legislation and it is subject to review by the Division I Cabinet in June. Teams will be allowed to play 18 matches from late August until the Saturday before Thanksgiving and up to 10 matches from mid-February until the start of the NCAA Tournament. Specific dates for the postseason will be determined later. The oversight committee introduced the new model in January with the rationale focusing on student-athlete welfare.
ESPN’s “College GameDay” will achieve a pair of milestones on its first show of the season. The venerable college football program will be celebrating its 40th season this year. The Sept. 5 show from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, before Lane Kiffin makes his LSU debut against Clemson will be the 500th show on the road. The announcement was made during ESPN’s upfront to advertisers on Tuesday. The first “College GameDay” show that took place from a campus was Nov. 13, 1993, in South Bend, Indiana, before No. 2 Notre Dame hosted top-ranked Florida State. Since then, the show has visited 82 schools in 39 states, as well as kicking off the 2024 season in Ireland when Florida State took on Georgia Tech.
Indianapolis Colts general manager Chris Ballard and two-time NBA All-Star Michael Finley are part of the nine-person search committee to help select Wisconsin’s next athletic director. Incoming Interim Chancellor Eric Wilcots is leading the search process. Marcus Sedberry is serving as Wisconsin’s interim athletic director while the school seeks to find a permanent successor to Chris McIntosh. McIntosh stepped down last month to accept a newly created position as the Big Ten’s deputy commissioner for strategy. Lauren Bishop is chairing the search committee.