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Citadel coach Chuck Driesell announced the hire Wednesday. Freeberg takes over for J.D. Powell, who became assistant coach for the Cougars under new coach Earl Grant. Freeberg spent the past two seasons working for fired College of Charleston coach Doug Wojcik. Before joining the Cougars, Freeberg was an assistant at Hutchinson Community College in Kansas. He was also spent five season at Concordia University in Minnesota, three years as an assistant and the final two as head coach....

Zavala, 36, and Pantoja, 29, attended the festival together and planned to return home the same night. Reports show Almanza Zavala and Pantoja dated for eight years and were no longer together, although both families said they maintained a good relationship. However, Pantoja had recently started seeing someone new, and her sister, Alejandra Pantoja, told NewsNation that Almanza Zavala wasn’t pleased. “A couple of family members had seen that at these apartment buildings in front of our house, he was parked at, and one time in the middle of the night he was outside sitting in front of the garage,” she told NewsNation....

The former Cowboys running back was suspended four games by the NFL for violating the league’s personal conduct policy. MORE: NFL players arrested in 2015 | FANTASY: Top RBs for Week 10 The third-year back from Oklahoma State was released by the Cowboys on Nov. 3, days after he left the team facility because of “personal issues.” His suspension stems from a February incident in Wichita, Kan., where he was arrested on a marijuana possession charge after police were called about a domestic violence dispute in which a weapon was involved....

Jarrett will join Krista Voda and Kyle Petty on the prerace and postrace shows. He also will be in the booth for select Xfinity (formerly Nationwide) Series events. MORE: Best performances of 2014 | Deflate-gate and NASCAR | Gordon’s legacy NBC and NBC Sports Network will televise the final 20 Cup races and 19 Xfinity races this year, the first of a 10-year deal that has Fox and NBC splitting the NASCAR race telecasts....

Dante Martin faces 77 months in prison after being convicted of manslaughter and felony hazing in the November 2011 death of Robert Champion. “This is something I will live with for the rest of my life,” Martin said in court in Orlando, Fla. Champion, a drum major, died as a result of injuries during an incident on a bus. Martin was said to have been the ringleader of the hazing....

“I totally should have walked away. I’m sorry. If I could do it all over again, I would,” Johnson told Michael Strahan. MORE: Sporting News’ preseason Top 25 Coach Jimbo Fisher dismissed Johnson after a video surfaced showing Johnson punching a woman at a Tallahassee bar. Johnson, 19, has been charged with misdemeanor battery. Appearing with his attorney and mother, Johnson declined to give details about the incident, including allegations that racial slurs played a part in motivating his actions....

But don’t get them started on the current uniforms. MORE: How much did the Rams improve this offseason? “I’ll never forget when I saw the Rams come out of the Coliseum tunnel for the first time in those beautiful gold and yellow uniforms with those Rams horns,” Fred Dryer, a defensive end for the Rams from 1972 to 1981, told ESPN. “If you look at the Rams horns right now, they’re a disgrace....

“Papa” John Schnatter appears to have shifted his hoops loyalties in the state of Kentucky. The disgraced former CEO of Papa John’s was sporting Kentucky gear while sitting behind the Wildcats’ bench during their game against LSU at Rupp Arena on Tuesday. Schnatter is the founder and former CEO of Papa John’s, which formerly had the naming rights to Louisville’s football stadium, now called Cardinal Stadium. He is also a former member of Louisville’s Board of Trustees....

In a statement Wednesday, spokesman Brad Bohlander said university police notified the former Wolfpack receiver this month after the school discovered his wife's car received two campus parking tickets during the spring semester. MORE: Can NC State scare FSU? | Week 9 picks | Bowl projections The school had sent the Leaks a disassociation letter in November 2011 for providing improper benefits to two former basketball players, then referred concerns about him in September 2012 to the North Carolina Secretary of State's office after he spoke with ex-Wolfpack football player David Amerson....

A month before police say he killed his cellmate, Phillips wrote to his mother saying his anger may lead to his death or someone else’s. MORE: NFL players arrested in 2015 “I feel myself very close to snapping,’’ Phillips wrote in a letter obtained by USA Today Sports dated March 5, 2015. “My anger grows daily as I have become fed up with prison. I feel my anger is near bursting and that will result in my death or the death of someone else....

The Allen County Coroner’s Office identified his body after a plant worker discovered his body in a log jam. MORE: Notable sports deaths of 2017 Hardy III was drafted in the second round of the 2008 NFL Draft and spent four years in the league. He played for the Buffalo Bills from 2008-10, then played for the Baltimore Ravens in 2011, though he never took a snap for the team....

“There isn’t a day that goes by since 2003 that I haven’t questioned that there were some things done that might have been beyond the rules that may have given them a 3-point advantage,’’ Hurney said of New England’s 32-29 win over Carolina in Super Bowl XXXVIII during his Charlotte radio show on Thursday. MORE: Theismann tests deflated footballs | Brady: ‘I’ve always played within the rules’ | Brady: ‘This isn’t ISIS’...

Born in London, Ajayi is a lifelong football fan and supports Arsenal, while he is also an avid FIFA player. It will be the 26-year-old’s first season as a professional FIFA player, with the running back having played on streams against former NFL player Chad ‘Ochocinco’ Johnson and Men in Blazers’ host Roger Bennett. Ajayi said: “Philadelphia will always hold a special place in my heart. I am blessed to be able to represent the city through esports and to be one of the first pro athletes to become a professional gamer....

“There are all kinds of civil wars. There are civil wars that will kill our country in three days in winter. And it will be over in three days, but it will kill the country,” Girkin said in a clip with subtitles that was posted to Twitter on Sunday by Anton Gerashchenko, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. In the clip, Girkin added that Moscow could “collapse into a civil war with millions of casualties, with a complete collapse and defragmentation....

While Greg Hardy and Adrian Peterson gear up for training camp, the former Ravens running back is still hard at work trying to revive his career. In fact, a group of advocates that includes former Buccaneers and Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano is reaching out to teams on Rice’s behalf, according to ESPN. MORE: NFL single-season rushing leaders | Report: Cardinals sign tight end Jermaine Gresham Schiano coached Rice at Rutgers from 2005-07 before he declared his intention to enter the 2008 NFL Draft....

DIAMOND: Antonio Brown has turned into the worst kind of player About three hours after tweeting that, however, Mendenhall backpedaled on his comments. Mendenhall received a lot of backlash on Twitter for his initial tweet. After all, using the sentence “he had to catch balls from a racist quarterback” is a very strong thing to say. It’s not exactly the kind of statement you then retract within the same day....

Johnson, 21, briefly disappeared from the team in 2012, only days after he helped the Johnny Manziel-led Aggies defeat then-No. 1 Alabama. He was found days later near his former Dallas high school, but few details were ever provided about what happened. MORE: Most heinous crimes connected to athletes According to a Nov. 13, 2012, police report, assistant coach David Beaty contacted A&M campus police to tell them that Johnson, a freshman at the time, hadn’t been in class or to practice and that teammates had been concerned because Johnson had been acting strangely over several months....

On Aug. 8, however, he had to break that after the MAC announced that it was canceling all fall sports — including football — in 2020 because of concerns about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. “This one lingered a little more than 24 hours,” Steinbrecher told Sporting News. “But very quickly, you moved on. Now, it’s how do we dig in and work to prepare opportunities for these kids....

The Iowa Department of Public Safety said in a statement that the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) were alerted about a triple killing at the park. According to the statement, police responded to the scene around 6:20 a.m. local time where officers found three dead bodies, adding that one camper who was supposed to be at the site was missing. The camper, who police believed to be the shooter, was later found dead west of the park after officers searched the area....

This isn’t going to be easy, everyone. In fact, with four spots instead of two in the new College Football Playoff postseason, it gives new life — and energizes and focuses — more teams than anyone could have imagined. “We’ll play with any number by our side,” Alabama safety Landon Collins said. That should be the mantra over the final three weeks of college football’s regular season for any team with a chance to make it to the CFP semifinals....