Kenny Jacoby

3 weeks ago | usatoday.com | Kenny Jacoby

Sexual assault survivor advocate Brenda Tracy filed a federal lawsuit against Michigan State University’s Board of Trustees and two individual board members on June 3, alleging they harmed her and her livelihood by mishandling her sexual harassment complaint against former head football coach Mel Tucker.

Mar 24, 2025 | yahoo.com | Kenny Jacoby

Three Dallas Stars employees used their positions with the National Hockey League team and atop prominent youth hockey nonprofit organizations to profit at thousands of families’ expense, a USA TODAY investigation found. The employees – Damon Boettcher, Lucas Reid and Brad Buckland – organized dozens of Stars-run youth hockey tournaments that required out-of-town participants to book rooms for a minimum number of nights at select hotels.

Feb 6, 2025 | usatoday.com | Chris Quintana |Kenny Jacoby

National Signing Day has come and gone, which means thousands of young men are still searching for a college football team to call home. Many will try to walk onto teams or accept that their football careers are over. Others will be lured into post-grad football, where players pay thousands of dollars to pursue their college football dreams.

Dec 12, 2024 | usatoday.com | Kenny Jacoby |Chris Quintana

Leo Etienne swivels back and forth in his chair behind a faux wooden desk in a cramped office. An unopened pack of toilet paper rolls rests on a side table next to a printer. Etienne prefers to be interviewed here instead of in his main office, which he says is too messy. Inside the concrete office building-slash-warehouse with no exterior signs, off a road with no sidewalks in a Central Florida city of 20,000, a group of about two dozen young men lift weights while blasting hip-hop music.

Dec 12, 2024 | usatoday.com | Chris Quintana |Kenny Jacoby

Hezekiah West thought he had a fresh chance to score a place on a college football team – his dream since childhood. The once-promising running back from Wayne County, Mississippi, spent part of his high school senior year sidelined with a torn thigh muscle. College coaches had stopped calling. Signing day came and went without any offers. That’s when West turned to Mississippi Prep, a postgraduate football team unaffiliated with any school.