An NCAA panel recommends broadening the definition of agents to close the loophole that allowed Heisman Trophy winner Cam Newton to keep playing despite his father's pay-for-play scheme.
Auburn coach Gene Chizik fielded a steady barrage of questions about an NCAA investigation and a reportedly testy exchange with the governing body's enforcement director.
Cam Newton says his relationship with his father is good, months after a controversy involving Cecil Newton nearly made his son ineligible at Auburn.
First the Heisman. Now the BCS championship.
Cam Newton would likely have won the Heisman by a record margin had 105 of the 886 voters not left him off their ballots because they thought his father might have made a few bucks off his talented son.
Cam Newton says his father will be coming to the BCS championship game.
Cam Newton was part of a national championship team at Florida where the spotlight was far removed from him, and one at Blinn College where there was no spotlight, only football.
Cam Newton lifted Auburn from the back of the Top 25 to No. 1 in the nation.
Cam Newton thanked his mother, then his father. And then he paused to compose himself.
Cam Newton won the Heisman Trophy _ as if there was any doubt.
Cam Newton and the other finalists for the Heisman Trophy strolled into the room together, posed for a couple of photos with the big bronze statue, then spread out to separate tables to speak with reporters.
Cam Newton won the Heisman Trophy _ as if there was any doubt.
Cam Newton won the Heisman Trophy — as if there was any doubt. Whether he gets to keep it is still to be determined.
Cam Newton and the other finalists for the Heisman Trophy strolled into the room together, posed for a couple of photos with the big bronze statue, then spread out to separate tables to speak with reporters.
Cam Newton and the other finalists for the Heisman Trophy strolled into the room together, posed for a couple of photos with the big bronze statue, then spread out to separate tables to speak with reporters.
"Thank you for all you did for me," he told his parents, adding. "To my father, I love you so much."
In a statement released by his lawyer earlier in the week, he said his presence could "rob Cam and the event of a sacred moment."
