Author: Scooby Axson, USA TODAY

Two of the biggest and most-successful college football programs have taken a unique approach to handling name, image and likeness of their athletes.

In her first public comments since her release from a Russian penal colony, WNBA star Brittney Griner says on social media that she plans to play.

Caleb Williams of Southern California was selected the Heisman Trophy winner for the 2022 college football season, the school’s seventh all-time.

President Joe Biden said the exchange for Brittney Griner had been in the works for the past two weeks, and that he had given the final go-ahead.

Four quarterbacks – USC’s Caleb Williams, Ohio State’s C.J. Stroud, Georgia’s Stetson Bennett and TCU’s Max Duggan – were named Heisman finalists.

LeBron James called out media for asking him about Kyrie Irving but not about a 1957 photo showing Jerry Jones looking over a desegregation protest.

For Cincinnati and Clemson, home did them no favors in trying to drive momentum into New Year’s Six or a College Football Playoff berth.

Colorado has a football coaching vacancy and could be looking at Deion Sanders, the current coach at Jackson State, to fill the position.