Last year, the pandemic wiped out the NCAA tournament. March Madness will soon return, but the coronavirus could very well have an impact on the 68-team event's outcome.

There have been multiple instances recently in which SEC commissioner Greg Sankey has rightfully boasted about his conference staging 69 out of a possible 71 football games this past season.

The most recent NFL event not impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic was the 2020 combine. A year later, with the 2021 combine canceled, the league has released a list of players who would have merited invitations to Indianapolis.

For the first time in 45 years, Alabama is the Southeastern Conference champion in both football and men's basketball.

When Josh Heupel was introduced late last month as Tennessee's new head football coach, he stressed the program "has to lock down our borders." Friday afternoon reflected just how steep of a climb Heupel faces.

Alabama and Ohio State competing for a national championship is hardly an unusual occurrence for either school. It tends to happen in January, though.

All five new offensive assistants under Tennessee head football coach Josh Heupel participated in a Zoom call earlier this week, where they expressed their excitement in working for such a tradition-rich program and in building an attack that will be both entertaining and productive.

There was no known movement on Tennessee's assistant football coaching front Wednesday, but a former player soon could be headed to a rival school.

Since the outbreak of the coronavirus last March, all Alabama football coach Nick Saban has done is cap a 13-0 national championship season with a 52-24 drubbing of Ohio State and land a 2021 signing class that analysts consider the greatest ever assembled.

So signing day came and went. Here are the headlines: Alabama dominated.

It's unknown whether Tennessee's football program has bottomed out from a personnel standpoint following the termination of Jeremy Pruitt or if lower levels can be reached, but the Volunteers were happy to announce some additions Wednesday.

The next college football coach who admits to signing a lousy recruiting class will be the first, but there was Butch Jones in February 2015 attempting to temper a crop that was ranked fourth nationally by 247Sports.com.

Matt Stafford. The former Detroit QB was dealt to the L.A. Rams, who instantly became a very trendy and likable bunch for 2021 considering the pieces.

There are lots of ways to look at the Southeastern Conference's 5-4 win in the annual Big 12/SEC Challenge series of men's basketball games this past Saturday.

The last football game Mac Jones played was for a national championship. The next game he plays could boost his NFL draft stock, provided the University of Alabama star's left ankle is good to go.

The coronavirus pandemic forced the Southeastern Conference to alter its 2020 football schedules, with every team given a 10-game slate consisting solely of league opposition.

Kentucky football coach Mark Stoops absolutely derailed Tennessee's third and final season under Jeremy Pruitt when his Wildcats shredded the No. 18 Volunteers 34-7 inside Neyland Stadium on Oct. 17.

Alabama offensive lineman Chris Owens signed with the Crimson Tide in 2016, when Lane Kiffin was offensive coordinator and when defensive coordinator Kirby Smart had just walked out the door to become Georgia's head coach.

When quarterback Mac Jones signed with Alabama in 2017 as a three-star prospect, he joined a Crimson Tide program that contained Jalen Hurts, the 2016 Southeastern Conference offensive player of the year as a freshman, and fellow signee Tua Tagovailoa, who entered Tuscaloosa with five-star status.

Throughout Alabama's 2020 national championship football season, sophomore receiver John Metchie was viewed as a developing talent.

Fresh off a College Football Playoff title as Alabama's offensive coordinator, Steve Sarkisian plans big changes as he takes over as head coach of the Texas Longhorns.

A record-low number of folks watched the Tide roll THE Buckeyes, as Monday's broadcast averaged 18.65 million viewers across the multitude of ESPN platforms on which it aired.

Having won seven national championships in college football, including six with Alabama, coach Nick Saban isn't about to rank his title teams.