An Amber Alert was issued for a missing 4-year-old girl in Rock Island, Illinois. The child was found safe, and five people have been arrested.

There’s a history of Cincinnati influence in South Bend, including Kelly, who spent three seasons with the Bearcats before taking the Notre Dame job. A year before Kelly poached Freeman, he hired Bearcats defensive backs coach Mike Mickens, a Cincinnati alum who was a teammate of Freeman’s at Wayne High School outside of Dayton.

The Greater Cincinnati area has been blanketed in almost a foot of snow thanks to the winter storm that began Sunday.

From the Senior Bowl to the Hula Bowl, Cincinnati will be well represented in NFL draft showcases this winter.

The football recruiting trail is picking up some steam as the new year gets older. We start the Recruiting Roundup with an offer for three-star 2026 North Cross School (Virginia) cornerback Jaziel Hart.

Jacksonville St. at Sam Houston St., 3 p.m. Wichita St. at North Texas, 3 p.m. Alcorn St. at Texas Southern, 4 p.m. BYU at Texas Tech, 7 p.m. Grand Canyon at Tarleton St., 8 p.m. Fresno St. at Air Force, 3 p.m. New Mexico at Colorado St., 3 p.m.

Martindale's resume is impressive and includes various stops in both the NFL and college. He spent time with the Oakland Raiders as linebackers coach from 2004 until 2008 and then spent two years with the Denver Broncos after, including the 2010 season as the DC.

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NORMAL — The Illinois State football team has signed six Division I players out of the transfer portal.

WASHINGTON — A major winter storm that turned deadly in the Midwest over the weekend pummeled the Mid-Atlantic region Monday, prompting travel hazards, shutting down schools, and closing federal offices in the nation's capital.

It was a week of fire and ice. It began with millions of people across the U.S. shivering amid blizzard conditions and frigid air that lasted for days, thanks to a jet stream that slips out of its usual path more often these days.

A look at football membership in the Power Four and the Group of Five, largely dating to the launch of the Big 12 in 1996.