Top-rated QB recruit Manning picks Texas

The latest Manning quarterback, and the nation’s top recruit for next year’s class, has verbally committed to a future SEC school: Arch Manning tweeted that he plans to play at Texas.

The quarterback’s message included a photo of him dropping back for a pass while wearing a Longhorns shirt.

Manning is going into his senior season at Isidore Newman, a prep school in New Orleans where his Super Bowl MVP uncles Peyton and Eli also played. Arch Manning’s father, Cooper, is the older brother of Peyton and Eli.

Peyton Manning played his college ball at Tennessee. Eli Manning followed their father and Arch’s grandfather, Archie, in playing at Ole Miss.

Texas is currently in the Big 12, but is moving to the Southeastern Conference by the 2025 season, and maybe sooner.

The Longhorns, who were 5-7 last year, will go into Coach Steve Sarkisian’s second season with Hudson Card and Quinn Ewers competing to be the starting quarterback.

PATIENTS PICK SONGS »

‘WAVE’ A heartwarming tradition launched at Iowa home football games five years ago is getting another feelgood layer.

The University of Iowa announced that patients at UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital will get to pick the songs that accompany the Hawkeye Wave, at which fans attending games at Iowa’s Kinnick Stadium wave to patients at the adjacent hospital and the patients are often seen waving back.

NFL HALL OF FAMER DIES AT 93 »

Hugh McElhenny, the elusive Hall of Fame halfback who starred in the San Francisco 49ers’ “Million Dollar Backfield” in the mid-1950s, has died. He was 93. The Pro Football Hall of Fame said McEhlenny died of natural causes June 17 at his home in Nevada, and that son-inlaw Chris Permann confirmed the death.

College baseball OLE MISS IN CWS FINAL »

Dylan DeLucia scattered four hits in his first shutout for Mississippi, Kevin Graham’s run-scoring double in the fourth held up and the Rebels advanced to the College World Series finals with a 2-0 victory over Arkansas. The Rebels (40-23), the last team picked for an at-large bid in the NCAA Tournament, bounced back from a 3-2 loss to the Razorbacks to reach the finals for the first time.