Dana O'Neil

The latest • Draw begins at noon ET : Most of the 48 nations competing for the ultimate prize in international soccer will have their group

Paul Finebaum tucks himself into what he hopes is an obscure corner of the Signia Hotel bar, trying to find a place where he might have a conversation without being recognized.

Wednesday will go down as one of the most shocking days in the history of the University of Michigan football program.

(CNN) — This week will go down as one of the most shocking in the history of the University of Michigan football program.

A series of scandals over the last several years begs a simple, yet critical question: Is what happened with Sherrone Moore a serious, but isolated, incident or a symbol of a broader, cultural problem within the walls of Michigan athletics?

Upon arriving at the James Madison University campus in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains in 1999, Jeff Bourne spied a 12,500-seat football stadium on a campus that only started playing the sport a little more than 25 years earlier.

What we're watching • Semifinal action kicks off: A spot in the College Football Playoff national title game is on the line as Ole Miss and Miami face off in Arizona in the Fiesta Bowl.

The first College Football Playoff semifinal kicks off on Thursday night when Ole Miss takes on Miami in the Fiesta Bowl. The winner plays for the national title.

Somewhere between what had been a previously unimaginable football commute from Pasadena, California, to Bloomington, Indiana, the first day of January bled into the second.

With a 56-22 dismantling of Oregon, Indiana has romped through this College Football Playoff like nothing the sport has seen in years, if ever.