The University of Hawaii fired athletics director Herman Frazier on Tuesday after he failed to re-sign football coach June Jones.

The Big Ten will begin annual background checks on its football and basketball officials in response to a report about the checkered legal and financial record of one of its football officials.

Tom Osborne will stay on as Nebraska’s athletic director for the next 2 1/2 years, dropping the interim tag he had since returning two months ago to replace the fired Steve Pederson.

Utah had a chance to get another Australian big man named Andrew, but passed. Vanderbilt couldn’t be happier and Gary Parrish sees why after witnessing Andrew (A.J.) Ogilvy come up big late against Wake Forest.

There’s choking and then there’s what West Virginia did on Saturday night. With a spot in the title game on the line, the Mountaineers lose a shocker to a bad Pitt team 13-9. This gag job will go down in the books, Gregg Doyel says.

When the going gets tough, West Virginia gets whacked. At least that was the case. After Pat White’s late TD dash sends Louisville to a 38-31 loss, Gregg Doyel says the No. 6 Mountaineers have finally found fortitude.

Navy beats Notre Dame 46-44 in 3 OTs, ending a 43-game skid to the Irish. No so coincidentally, Gregg Doyel is there. ND rip job, right? Wrong. Doyel instead dishes out kudos to the Midshipmen … and Charlie Weis.

Nevada football players were at a Halloween party where three people were shot to death and a Wolf Pack basketball player was hurt in a fight there but was treated and released from the hospital, school officials said Monday.

State Rep. Bill Proctor will serve as Florida State’s interim athletic director.

The University of Alabama is investigating the distribution of textbooks to athletes on scholarship in all sports after five football players were suspended for violating rules covering free books for course work.