COLLEGE PARK (WPNS) — Maryland begins Big Ten play Saturday against Minnesota, a day after the findings of an external investigation into the death of Jordan McNair are expected to be released. The school’s board of regents will be briefed at their scheduled Friday meeting on the results of …

LSU surged to No. 6 in The Associated Press college football poll after its second victory of September against a highly ranked team, and Wisconsin tumbled to No. 18 after becoming the first top-10 team to be upset by an unranked team.

Temple 35 — Maryland 14

(WPNS) — On Saturday, a tragic Maryland football offseason yields to competition. Or rather, it crashes into the wicked inevitability of sports. No matter the amount of unfinished mourning or truth-seeking or finger-pointing over Jordan McNair’s death, the games must go on. They always go on…

(WPNS) — What we know is the University of Maryland’s football team will open its season against Texas on Saturday. We know that interim coach Matt Canada will choose either Kasim Hill or Tyrell Pigrome to be his quarterback. We know they’ll kick off just after noon at FedEx Field.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A week before Ohio State’s season opener, few in Columbus have been able to focus on football. Not many are talking about the new starting quarterback or how to best use the two elite running backs.

(AP) — Heisman Trophy runner-up Bryce Love of Stanford and Outland Trophy winner Ed Oliver of Houston highlight The Associated Press preseason All-America team.

COLLEGE PARK (AP) — Members of the Maryland football team will wear a helmet sticker with No. 79 to honor former teammate Jordan McNair, who collapsed during a practice session in May and subsequently died.

Alabama will begin its quest for a second consecutive national championship with a rare three-peat.

(AP) — Maryland placed head coach DJ Durkin on administrative leave on Saturday while the school scrutinizes allegations of poor behavior by the football staff, apparent misdeeds that came to light following the death of a player on the practice field.

EASTON — Debbie McQuaid remembers spotting Maddie Boehm for the first time.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — No need for Yale to continue referring to its last “national championship” in lacrosse.

Chesapeake 7 — Potomac St. 6

Ordinarily, the rule when filling out brackets is that the First Four games in Dayton should be ignored because those teams are all incapable of winning a game when the “real” tournament starts on Thursday.

(AP) — From the top seed in the NCAA Tournament — Virginia — to those that barely made it into the bracket — Arizona State and Syracuse — it feels as though everyone involved in March Madness is on the bubble this year.

Virginia 71 — N. Carolina 63

SALISBURY — Salisbury University freshman pitcher Brea Bishop, the 2017 North Bayside softball player of the year for North Caroline High, went the distance in her first career start to pick up her first college win Sunday, March 4.

CARY, N.C. — North Caroline High 2016 graduate and Rowan (N.J.) University first baseman Mackenzie Short has gotten off to a fast start in her sophomore year during the team’s opening spring trip to North Carolina.

WYE MILLS — Chesapeake College softball opened the 2018 season with a sweep at home against Rowan College (N.J.) at Burlington County Sunday, March 4.

Michigan St. 68 — Wisconsin 63

Baylor 93 — Texas 87