Coach Jeff Fisher has one word to describe the theory that the Titans sued Southern California because the NFL team is in the same state as Lane Kiffin's last employer. Absurd. The Titans accuse USC and Kiffin of breaching the contract of running backs coach Kennedy Pola a week before training camp.

Former Oregon quarterback Jeremiah Masoli has accepted an invitation from Mississippi coach Houston Nutt to visit the school this weekend, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on Friday. Masoli made the decision early Friday morning to visit the Oxford campus. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because Masoli has not yet enrolled in school.

Clemson athletic director Terry Don Phillips said Friday that the NCAA had been on the Tigers' campus this week to talk with two members of the football team. Phillips issued a statement Friday about the visit, but did not say what the inquiry was about. Phillips also did not identify the athletes, but said Clemson is cooperating fully.

Florida State and the NCAA are paying $325,000 in legal fees to compensate the attorneys of news media companies that sued to force the release of documents in the Seminoles' academic cheating scandal. The records were part of an NCAA investigation that eventually implicated 61 athletes and stripped the school of victories in 10 men's and women's sports.

Bowl Championship Series executive director Bill Hancock says the defections of Nebraska and Colorado from the Big 12 will not influence the BCS. Hancock spoke Friday at the Mid-American Conference's media day at Ford Field in Detroit. Nebraska announced recently that it will leave the conference for the Big Ten, while Colorado plans to join the Pac-10, along with Utah.

Even without their star quarterback, the Oregon Ducks ended Southern California's seven-year reign as the Pac-10's preseason favorite. A year after breaking USC's seven-year stranglehold on the Pac-10, coach Chip Kelly's defending champions were picked to win it again in the preseason media poll Thursday.

Mack Brown thinks defenses are starting to catch up to the spread offense. He's noticed how much his defense has struggled against powerful, traditional running teams in bowl games. And with a young quarterback replacing Colt McCoy, the Longhorns probably shouldn't throw as much as they have been anyway.

Rick Pitino never said a woman who claimed the Louisville basketball coach got her pregnant after a one-night stand had to get an abortion but did advise she "go out of town" to get medical care, his longtime aide told a jury Friday. The aide, Tim Sypher, was testifying against the woman, his ex-wife Karen Cunagin Sypher.

West Virginia University says basketball coach Bob Huggins' rib-breaking fall occurred because medication taken on an empty stomach left him lightheaded. President James Clements and Athletic Director Oliver Luck told the Charleston Daily Mail that Huggins stood too quickly, tripped and fell into a table in his Las Vegas hotel room last week.

The NCAA added to self-imposed sanctions by Arizona's men's basketball program on Thursday, vacating 19 wins from the 2007-08 season and removing an additional scholarship for violations involving Hall of Fame coach Lute Olson. The university announced its sanctions in February, including the loss of a scholarship for 2011-12 and numerous cutbacks in recruiting visits over the next two...

Kevin Coble, one of Northwestern's top players, has chosen to skip his senior season after sitting out with a broken left foot last year. The team's leading scorer and rebounder for three years, Coble was injured in a preseason practice and had surgery. In a statement, he says his rehabilitation "is most important," and he will continue to follow the schedule set by his surgeon.

For years people in the Pac-10 -- from players to fans -- have complained about a lack of recognition and a so-called East Coast bias that caused the conference to be under-appreciated nationally. Commissioner Larry Scott, who grew up in New York on Long Island, decided that instead of complaining it was time for the league to do something about it.

Drexel University athletic officials indefinitely suspended two basketball players charged in an armed robbery at a fellow student's apartment last week. Starting point guard Jamie Harris and backup forward Kevin Phillip turned themselves in to police Monday to face robbery, theft and weapons charges.

Israeli basketball team Maccabi Haifa has signed former Virginia guard Sylven Landesberg to a two-year contract. Maccabi Haifa owner Jeffrey Rosen said Sunday that signing Landesberg is a "great achievement" for the Super League team. The 6-foot-6-inch guard averaged 16.9 points and 5.5 rebounds at Virginia between 2008 and 2010, and represented the Sacramento Kings at the NBA Summer...