Michigan State players to receive stipend from alum
United Wholesale Mortgage is putting the "green" in the green and white.
Michigan State basketball and football players will receive a monthly stipend funded by United Wholesale Mortgage, which former MSU basketball walk-on Mat Ishbia now leads.
The company, a top wholesale mortgage lender, announced via news release Wednesday that it will sponsor all 133 MSU men's basketball and football players for the upcoming school year.
Each student-athlete will be paid $500 per month during the duration of their season through funds provided by Ishbia and UWM.
NOTRE DAME: Former football coach Terry Brennan, who led the Irish to a 7-0 victory over Oklahoma in 1957 that snapped the Sooners' 47-game win streak, died at his home in Wilmette, Illinois. He was 93. A former halfback on Notre Dame's 1946 and 1947 national championship teams, Brennan was just 25 years old when he was hired as the Irish head coach in 1954, replacing the legendary Frank Leahy.
TEXAS: Students and the Texas NAACP have filed a federal civil rights complaint claiming that UT is discriminating against Black students on the basis of race by its use of “The Eyes of Texas.” The Texas and UT chapters of the NAACP, along with five anonymous students, filed the complaint with the U.S. Education Department's Office of Civil Rights on Friday. The complaint, which was first reported by The Texas Tribune, says Black students, faculty, staff and alumni are subjected to a hostile environment by UT's “offensive,” “disrespectful” and “aggressive” use of the school song.
OCU: Reagan Chaney, a freshman from Ardmore, shot the best round in Oklahoma City University women's golf history during the first round of the Southwestern Christian Fall Invitational on Tuesday at Lake Hefner. Chaney's 64 helped the No. 4-ranked Stars build a tournament-leading 14 shot advantage.
The previous record for a round was a 66 by Laura Jones in 2007.
USC: Sam “Bam” Cunningham, an All-American fullback at Southern California whose performance against Alabama was credited with helping to integrate football in the South and who went on to a record-setting career with the New England Patriots, died Tuesday. He was 71.
GONZAGA: Men's basketball coach Mark Few has been cited for driving under the influence and said he exhibited “poor judgement” operating a motor vehicle after consuming alcohol. Few released a statement Tuesday night apologizing for the “hurt caused to those most important to me — my family, my players, and my program.” He was cited on Monday night in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, about 30 miles east of the Gonzaga campus.