Defensive back player, Carlos Thompson has lost his place in the South Carolina’s football team. The player was suspended indefinably by team coach Steve Spurrier. The coach hinted that the suspension was due to breaking of team’s rules. No exact reason was given for the suspension and even the head coach did not elaborate on why he meted the suspension. Last year Thomson played as cornerback. He started 6 games out of a total of 20 appearances in the last three seasons with the school team. He made about 17 tackles and broke up six passes.

The player weighs 192 pounds and is 5-ii inches. He was with College park before joining the South Carolina. In a related development, coach for Penn University’s football, Joe Paterno has suspended the defensive tackle player Phil Taylor. Phil was recently charged with serious assault and disorderly conduct. The police accuse Taylor as well as Chris Baker and Bowman Navorro for beating up a fan. Baker, Navorro ware able to lock de bolt your car. The culprits have been charged and a preliminary hearing is to be held in the university on March 11th.

The University of Connecticut and its head coach, Randy Edsall, have mutually agreed to extend the contract of the coach for another five years running upto the 2012 season. The contract comes into effect from January 1, 2008 and Edsall will be provided with a base salary of $275,000 with an increase of $25,000 every year through the length of the contract. Edsall will also be receiving an additional amount, if the University of Connecticut reaches the bowl game. Edsall has been responsible for the Huskies to have an overall 9 - 4 wins with 5 - 2 in the Big East and also coached them to play in the Meineke Car Care Bowl.

The Connecticut Athletic Director, Jeff Hathaway, said that Coach Edsall has been given the task of leading the University of Connecticut team into the Bowl Championship Series Conference and says that the coach will live up to his expectations. Edsall has been the head coach of the University of Connecticut for the last nine seasons and the team has a record of 39-25 results in their last 64 games. Edsall said that he was happy to have extended his contract to coach the University of Connecticut and would like to see his players perform consistently. He acknowledged the fact that he needs to put in a lot of efforts to drive the players to achieve the goals set forth in the football program.

The star player of the Washington team, quarterback Jake Locker, has decided to show his baseball skills this season as he will play for the Bellingham Bells this season. The West Coast Collegiate baseball team has many top players playing from the Northwest. The general manager of the Bell’s team, Dave Lewis, said that the decision of Locker to play baseball was in consultation with his football coach Tyrone Willingham. The football coach said that he completely supports the decision of Jake Locker to play baseball in the coming season and denied the fact that playing baseball will cause an impact on his football skills.
Jake Locker was a standout baseball player in high school and he is capable of both pitching as well as playing in the outfield. Locker was to be a first round picks for the 2006 amateur baseball draft, but his prior commitment to play for the Washington football team had the major league teams step backwards. Locker had an outstanding season for Washington last season with 14 touchdowns and he threw for 2,062 yards. He not only made rushes for another 986 yards but also had 13 scores last season. Lewis feels that it is football that first comes to the mind of Locker and he is sure that he will join the Washington team for their season opener at Oregon on August 30.

Les Miles, the coach of Louisiana State University is unhappy as his team is starting the spring training with out two quarterbacks. Matt Flynn and Ryan Perriloux were the back bones of this team who are the defending national champions. The tigers expected Matt Flynn’s absence in this season as he has become a senior with 5years experience and wanted to try his luck in NFL this year. But, they were without any clue that they will be forced to play this season with out Ryan Perilloux, who got suspension for violating the rules of the team.

Perilous is facing the third suspension within last one year. Coach miles do not want to spend time by talking about perilloux instead he has planned to focus on the new guys who want to be with the team. Though, perilloux made good start in the last season, his nasty behavior and pranks over shadowed his on - field performance. Last summer, he got suspension for entering a casino using a bogus identification card and got one day suspension, later that season for his misbehavior in a night-club. According to Miles discipline is a major issue for a team and is confident that he can create new leaders as well as play makers in the absence of Perilloux.