STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Suspended wide receiver Chris Bell will not be allowed back on the Penn State football team after police said he threatened a teammate with an 8-inch cooking knife Monday night at Pollock Dining Commons.

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Before 2007, the Kansas football team had lost at least five games each season for 12 straight years. This year, the KU football and men’s basketball teams combined for four losses. It is a great time to be a Jayhawk.

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Sherron Collins, Aqib Talib and other Kansas varsity athletes who become parents have to balance classes, child care and sports obligations, making every hectic day a test of their discipline. They must piece together money from summer jobs, savings and parent support to pay for babysitting, medical care, food, clothing and other child care expenses because the NCAA does not allow universities to provide extra benefits to athletes who are parents.

BATON ROUGE, La. — More details emerged about Ryan Perrilloux’s verbal altercation at a restaurant Sunday night, as a second Kona Grill employee recounted the LSU quarterback yelling obscenities and calling a server “Osama” after coming in for drinks with an unidentified former LSU football player and three employees from a local strip club.

LOS ANGELES — Sure, the roster is almost bereft of talent as presently constituted. I realize Rick Neuheisel has some serious baggage. And yes, I’m wondering if UCLA is becoming a WAC team with all these Monday and Friday games. But there’s so much to like.

EUGENE, Ore. — Frantz Dorsainvil has never played football before, but at 6-foot-8, 260 pounds, the Oregon basketball player and Montreal native is getting a look at defensive end for Mike Bellotti’s Ducks this spring.