Pinstripe Bowl

University of Connecticut senior center fielder Billy Ferriter (Nashua, N.H.) hit an RBI single in the top of the 12th inning that scored sophomore left fielder Eric Yavarone (North Haven, Conn.) to lead No. 8-seed UConn to a 3-2 win over top-seed...

PONTE VEDRA BEACH — The American Athletic Conference wrapped up its spring meetings Wednesday, inching closer to key decisions about the new league's future. Commissioner Mike Aresco said the conference is close, a week or two away, from...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - New York Jets - INSIDE SLANT The good news for the Jets is Mark Sanchez and Geno Smith can't play much worse than they did on Wednesday. The bad news, of course, is that this qualifies as good news on May 22....

The Football Bowl Association released the schedule for the upcoming college football bowl season Wednesday which includes 35 bowl games played over 17 days. This season is the final one under the current postseason format – Bowl Championship...

* denote ACC Bowl tie-ins (Miami), ^ denote Conference USA (FIU, FAU). December 21:  Gildan New Mexico Bowl (2 p.m.), Las Vegas Bowl (3:30 p.m.), Famous Idaho Potato Bowl (5:30 p.m.), R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl (9 p.m.) ^ December 23: Beef 'O'...

NFL Team Report - New York Jets - INSIDE SLANT Quarterback David Garrard confirmed reports he is retiring, telling USA Today, "I'm done, the knee is only going to get worse - my decision had nothing to do with them drafting Geno (Smith)," Garrard said....

Orlando Sentinel college insider Matt Murschel has ranked all 125 Football Bowl Subdivision teams in the country. The Sentinel staff will take a closer look at a new team daily, counting backward from No. 125 to our projected No. 1 team. Today at No. 96:...

PONTE VEDRA BEACH — American Athletic Conference presidents agreed on how to split lucrative Big East exit fees and postseason credits that reportedly could be near $100 million. League officials declined to reveal how much each school would...

The American Athletic Conference spring meetings begin Monday, the first gathering of its kind for the teams that make up the new league. For area basketball fans, one big question is where the men's and women's postseason tournament will take place. For...

Cupcakes are out. Compelling matchups are in. "We want to get out of the business," Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon said, "of scheduling games that feel like scrimmages to our fans." To that end, the Big Ten will begin playing nine...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - New York Jets - INSIDE SLANT The true evidence of whether or not Geno Smith is cut out to be a franchise quarterback -- and a franchise quarterback in the New York market -- won't begin to appear for at least several...

Geography is the new Big Ten buzzword. First it was the new 2014 football division names, embracing East and West, and now it's spilling into the revised bowl plan. As the Big Ten athletic directors meet Tuesday and today at the Sofitel hotel in...