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The Ole Miss quarterback was granted an injunction in Mississippi state court on Thursday that allows him to play for the Rebels in 2026. Chambliss, who transferred from Ferris State, had argued that he should have received a medical redshirt in 2022 while he was playing for the Bulldogs and dealing with health issues before his tonsils were removed in 2024. Chambliss redshirted in 2021 while he was at Ferris State and didn't appear in a game in 2022.

The injunction from Judge Robert Whitwell came afterthe NCAA twice denied Chambliss' requestfor a sixth year of eligibility. In January, the governing body denied his request for a waiver and then subsequently denied his appeal. During the hearing Thursday, news emerged that the NCAA had denied Chambliss' request to reconsider its decision.

Whitwell noted before he issued the injunction that the NCAA's lawyers had left the courtroom and were not present at the time of his ruling Thursday afternoon. Whitwell talked for over an hour before issuing his ruling, and it was obvious over the course of his remarks that he was going to rule in Chambliss' favor as he noted that the NCAA had operated "in bad faith" and that it disregarded Chambliss' medical issues in refusing to grant him the waiver.

Whitwell also made clear that he was not ruling that the NCAA's rules were illegal or making a larger example of the NCAA's eligibility system.

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Chambliss, 23, was one of college football's breakout stars in 2025. After relieving an injured Austin Simmons in Ole Miss' second game of the season, Chambliss totaled 30 touchdowns and threw just three interceptions as the Rebels made it to the semifinals of the College Football Playoff before losing to Miami in the Fiesta Bowl.

Chambliss' performance in the quarterfinals against Georgia was a game that will live forever in Ole Miss lore. He was 30-of-46 passing for 362 yards and two scores as the Rebels outscored the Bulldogs 27-13 in the second half for a 39-34 Sugar Bowl win.

His return to Ole Miss is a huge boost for the Rebels as they look to get back to the College Football Playoff under new coach Pete Golding. The former Ole Miss defensive coordinator became the team's head coach ahead of the playoff in December as Lane Kiffin decided to leave Ole Miss for the open job at LSU.

To say that having Chambliss back for a second season in Oxford is massive may be an understatement. Simmons transferred after the season to Missouri and, had Chambliss not come back, Auburn transfer Deuce Knight would have been the prohibitive favorite to start for the Rebels.

Chambliss will likely be one of the favorites to win the Heisman Trophy ahead of the 2026 season even with Kiffin and former offensive coordinator Charlie Weis Jr. now at LSU. Ole Miss added the No. 18 transfer class in the country this offseason, according to On3, and signed Michigan State RB Makhi Frazier and(controversially) Clemson LB Luke Ferrelliamong others.

With Chambliss now set to play for the Rebels next season, there's still one more eligibility case among starting quarterbacks in the SEC remaining. Tennessee QB Joey Aguilarhas received a temporary restraining orderin his efforts to play for a seventh season of college football, with a hearing set for Friday over a possible injunction that would clear the way for him to play next season.

Fauria, a two-time Super Bowl champion, also wanted to make it clear his publiccritique of Deion Sandershad "nothing to do" with his son Caleb, who was on the Colorado team when Sanders was hired in December 2022 but then left the team in 2023 before transferring to Delaware.

Fauria had ripped Sandersduring a podcastwith host Zach Gelb on Tuesday, Feb. 10, saying Sanders is not "very bright" and that "brainwashed" people support him "regardless of how stupid he is sometimes."

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USA TODAY Sports followed up on those remarks with Fauria, who played at Colorado from 1990 to 1994 before moving on to the NFL, where he won two Super Bowls with the New England Patriots.

"I don't want Colorado to fail — I want them to succeed!" Fauria said in an email. "But I find the head coach's priorities off-putting. I officially tapped out in April 2025, when athletic director Rick George allowed the University of Colorado to retire Shedeur Sanders' No. 2 jersey."

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The jersey retirement beef at Colorado

This is a sore subject for many former Colorado players, particularly those who played at Colorado around the time the Buffaloes won the1990 national championship. USA TODAY Sports previously reportedColorado went against previous standards for lifetime player honorslast year when itretired the jersey numbersof Shedeur Sanders and Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter. Colorado hasn't even retired the jersey number of Darian Hagan, who led the Buffaloes to three straight Big Eight titles and the national championship with a 28-5-2 record as quarterback. Shedeur Sanders' starting record was 13-11 with no championships or bowl games victories, including 9-4 in 2024.

Hagan even told USA TODAY Sports last year he was"flabbergasted" by the decision, which the school said was made at the discretion of the athletic department administration and head coach. Before last year, Colorado had only retired four football jersey numbers in school history.

"Believe me, I can root for Shedeur as a player while still calling his jersey retirement what it was: a vanity project driven by his father," Fauria told USA TODAY Sports. "It's this strange, twisted loyalty from Sanders die-hards — now spilling over into the NFL — that I want no part of. So I hold my nose and move on."

Fauria clarifies some criticism about Deion Sanders

In the podcast, Fauria said he wasn't a fan of Sanders' coaching style or messaging. He also said he wasn't very smart. USA TODAY Sports asked him to clarify.

(USA TODAY Sports also reached out to Colorado to see if Sanders or the university wanted to respond. Colorado declined comment.)

Fauria said Sanders' messaging is "confusing and contradictory."

"It flips as fast as the weather at the base of the Flatirons," Fauria told USA TODAY Sports. "One minute it's all empowerment, family and toughness; the next it's excuses, deflections, or bizarre postgame word salads that leave you scratching your head. What boggles my mind most is how reporters rarely challenge him onlate-game managementor coaching decisions."

Criticism of Deion Sanders unfairly labeled as hate

Fauria said Sanders and some of his followers have "thin skin," where any criticism is considered "hate" even if it's valid and constructive. Sanders' three-year record is 16-21, including 3-9 in 2025.

"What I find comical is that any criticism of Deion Sanders gets labeled as 'hate,'" Fauria told USA TODAY Sports. "Apparently, only blind loyalty is acceptable — no matter how self-serving or self-promoting his personality comes across. Those traits are ones I personally don't value and never will.  Ask anyone who knows me or anyone I played with at any level."

Does issue with Deion Sanders involve Fauria's son?

Some questioned whether Fauria's criticism had something to do with the fact his son left the team under Sanders. Fauria said that's not true.

"He loved it there and his teammates," Fauria said ofhis son Caleb. "That angle is fabricated and used to create a narrative that isn't true. Responding to those comments is just a waste of my time and energy."

Fauria's remarks also aren't isolated among former Colorado players. They want the program to succeed but have questioned Sanders'roster-building strategy, hisclock management in gamesand his perceived lack of care for Colorado history and tradition, such as not having his team learn the fight song.

Former Colorado lineman Matt McChesney talked about it Feb. 12 onhis own podcast"Zero 2 Sixty." McChesney questioned the need to attack Sanders' intelligence but otherwise supported Fauria.

"I'm glad that Christian's saying some of the stuff he's saying," McChesney said. "I can't sit here and disagree with him, honestly."

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Compared to the field, Hisatsune lost strokes both off the tee and on approach. But his short game allowed him to make 10 birdies without a bogey at Pebble Beach Golf Links and finish his round with three birdies in a row. He carries a one-shot lead into Friday over Sam Burns (63, Pebble Beach) and Keegan Bradley (63, Spyglass Hill).

The field is playing one round apiece at Pebble Beach Golf Links and Spyglass Hill Golf Course before spending the weekend rounds at Pebble Beach. There is no 36-hole cut at the $20 million signature event.

Hisatsune's early highlights with the flatstick included a 28 1/2-foot birdie putt at No. 3 followed by a 39-foot birdie roll at No. 4. He chipped in from the greenside rough at No. 16 for the first of his closing trio of birdies.

"I like these greens. I like a poa (annua) green, like much easier," Hisatsune said. "Feeling like more comfortable to playing these greens. Yeah, feeling like yeah, that's why I can feeling more comfortable. Very lucky."

Hisatsune, 23, qualified for the tournament via the Aon Swing 5 rankings, having earned enough FedEx Cup points in the first few weeks of the season to play his way in. Hisatsune tied for second at the Farmers Insurance Open and tied for 10th at last week's WM Phoenix Open.

Bradley's 11-foot putt for eagle at the par-5 seventh hole anchored his bogey-free round, the best of the day at Spyglass.

"(At No. 6) I hit a 9-iron to about two, three feet, which is never easy out here, then made that," Bradley said. "And then hit a 5-wood to about 15 feet, made that for eagle. And then made a long one from the fringe on 8 and off to the races."

Back at Pebble Beach, Burns shot a 7-under 29 on the back nine to surge up the leaderboard. He made 158 feet, 9 inches of putts on his round -- beating Hisatsune's mark by 9 inches.

"It was nice, I made a significant amount of putts and feel like I was hitting it pretty nice," Burns said. "It was a good combination for today."

Tony Finau and Patrick Rodgers shot 8-under 64s at Spyglass Hill and Chris Gotterup opened with the same score at Pebble Beach. Gotterup, who birdied his first six holes of the day, is the surprising early leader of the FedEx Cup race as he already has notched two victories this year, the Sony Open in Hawaii and the Phoenix Open.

"I was kind of just coasting along," Gotterup said. "You don't really realize it in the moment and then when you look up, you're like, 'Wow, I'm 6 under through six, that's nice.'"

Akshay Bhatia, Andrew Novak and Tom Hoge (Pebble Beach) are tied at 7-under 65 along with Canada's Nick Taylor (Spyglass Hill). Jordan Spieth shot a 66 at Spyglass Hill, featuring a hole-out eagle at the par-4 18th.

In his first start in the U.S. this year, Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy posted a 4-under 68 at Spyglass Hill. The defending champion's roller-coaster card featured one eagle and two double bogeys at the par-3 third and fifth holes.

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler got off to a slow start, birdieing the final hole to salvage an even-par 72 at Pebble Beach. He rallied from an opening-round 73 last week in Phoenix to finish in a tie for third, so Scheffler has something recent to draw from.

"Around these places you never know what the weather's going to turn out to be like," he said. "I'll need a little bit of help up there from the weather. If we get a few more days like this, it's going to be pretty tough for me to be able to catch up."

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Prequalification certifies that the vaccine meets international standards for quality ‌and safety, ⁠allowing U.N. agencies such as UNICEF to buy and distribute ⁠it for immunization campaigns.

The nOPV2 shot is designed to be more ​genetically stable ​than older ​oral polio vaccines, ‌lowering the risk of triggering new outbreaks while helping to stop transmission, the WHO said.

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The move follows a pledge by global leaders in December ‌to provide $1.9 billion ​to support eradication efforts, ​aiming to ​protect 370 million children ‌each year despite recent ​budget cuts.

Polio, ​a disabling and potentially life-threatening disease, has been wiped out in ​many ‌regions but continues to circulate.

(Reporting by ​Ruchika Khanna in Bengaluru. Editing ​by Mark Potter)

SPARTANBURG, South Carolina, Feb 13 (Reuters) - About a dozen times each day, medical staff at Parkside Pediatrics in Spartanburg, South Carolina, head to the clinic's parking lot, reaching inside cars and minivans to check children and their parents for fever, rash and other signs of measles.

Dr. Justin Moll started this outdoor triage in December to cope with what has quickly become the largest U.S. measles outbreak in more than three decades, federal health data show. He wants to keep the ‌highly contagious virus out of the clinic's waiting rooms, already packed with infants and other small children. Many of them are unvaccinated against measles because they're still too young.

Moll and his colleagues have treated about 50 measles patients since the outbreak started in early October, ‌something never seen before at their South Carolina clinics. They fear that outbreaks like these are becoming the new normal as Americans' opposition to vaccines deepens, fueled by backlash to the COVID-19 response and misinformation on social media. Medical experts say U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s anti-vaccine policies have further undermined public trust in life-saving immunizations by promoting unproven theories ​about the dangers of vaccines.

"This is not going to be the last vaccine-preventable disease to hit us," Moll told Reuters at his clinic in Spartanburg, the epicenter of the outbreak.

For this story, Reuters interviewed more than two dozen doctors, nurses, parents, school officials, pharmacists, pastors, lawmakers and former health officials in South Carolina.

The South Carolina outbreak has surpassed 930 cases, about 20 of which required hospitalization, according to state health officials. No deaths have been reported by the state.

School immunization rates statewide have dropped by nearly 3 percentage points since prior to the pandemic in 2020, as local leaders and parents pushed back against COVID-related lockdowns and vaccine mandates and demanded more "medical freedom" to choose what, if any, other routine shots their children receive.

Only 89% of all students from kindergarten up through high school are up to date on their shots in Spartanburg County, below the 95% rate that public health experts say can prevent measles' spread. In some local schools, vaccination rates have ‌dropped below 20%, according to state data.

During previous outbreaks, the federal government has led the charge to encourage ⁠widespread vaccination and coordinate efforts among states to curb the spread of disease. Kennedy has not made any major statements regarding the measles outbreak in South Carolina. HHS didn't respond to a request for comment.

The measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) two-shot protocol remains recommended at the federal level starting at 12 months of age, with a second at 4 to 6 years of age.

Measles is among the most highly contagious viruses known. Spread through coughing, sneezing and talking, it can linger ⁠in the air for up to two hours and move quickly through communities with low vaccination coverage.

'SOME FOLKS HAVE OVERREACTED' IN AVOIDING ALL VACCINES

Some South Carolina Republicans now have second thoughts about discrediting routine immunization but find they hold little sway.

"I now believe that some folks have overreacted in the other direction and oppose any and all vaccines, even ones that have been tried-and-true for decades," Josh Kimbrell, a Republican state senator running for governor, wrote last month to a Spartanburg County school board.

He asked school officials to examine their policies on vaccine exemptions for students, but was pilloried on social media when he posted the letter online. Kimbrell didn't respond to requests for ​comment.

Dr. ​Leigh Bragg, a pediatrician near Spartanburg, said local hospitals, churches and schools are reluctant to speak up about the most proven way to curb the outbreak. "People are trying to ​stay in the middle and not pick a side on vaccinations," she said.

Even South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster, a ‌Republican, has championed personal choice as the preventable disease spreads through the state.

"Our approach is to be sure people have the information and that the vaccine is available for them, give them all the information so they can make up their mind on what they want to do," he told reporters at a state tourism conference this week.

The outbreak struck as South Carolina's public health department grappled with reductions in federal funding and overall staffing in recent years, two former department employees told Reuters.

Last month, the Trump administration said it had sent South Carolina $1.4 million to support its measles response. State officials said the federal government also has provided assistance with testing, clinical advice and free vaccines.

"The number of cases we're seeing now is unprecedented," Dr. Linda Bell, South Carolina's state epidemiologist, said this week. "We have a great deal more work to do to stop this outbreak."

Despite Bell's pleas for people to get fully vaccinated, some remain reluctant to heed those calls. At state-run vaccine clinics at Spartanburg churches, only a handful of people have shown up in recent weeks.

Talina Podrez, a 21-year-old barista in Spartanburg, said measles had swept through her local church in January, leaving services about half empty. While she stayed away because ‌she only has one of the two recommended MMR shots, Podrez said she isn't interested in getting another shot.

"My mom was against most of the vaccines so we just ​got whatever was needed for the bare minimum," she said.

'MANY PARENTS HAVE LOST RESPECT AND FEAR FOR THIS DISEASE'

Nathan Heffington, a nurse practitioner and medical director for Parkside Pediatrics in ​Spartanburg County, believes that many more infections aren't being counted. He has seen multiple unvaccinated families show up with telltale signs of measles, ​but then refuse to get tested.

The clinic still reports them to the state as suspected cases and advises them to quarantine.

"The actual numbers are much, much higher than the reported numbers, which is just all the more nerve-wracking," Heffington said. "Many parents ‌have lost respect and fear for this disease."

While political leaders shy away from a strong endorsement of vaccines, ​it is left to medical providers like Moll and Heffington to persuade reluctant ​parents of their value.

"They're not anti-anything. They're just trying to do the best thing for their family and figure out who to trust," said Moll.

Kathleen Black's two oldest children, ages 8 and 4, got all their routine immunizations. But she wanted to hold off when her youngest, Katie, was born about a year ago.

From social media and friends, Black heard childhood vaccines may cause autism or developmental delays, claims not supported by medical research. Like many in South Carolina, she voted for Trump and supports Kennedy's demands for more vaccine safety studies.

"I like ​to go down those rabbit holes and it opens up millions of questions, like 'What's in the vaccines? Why ‌are we giving all these vaccines?'" she told Reuters during a visit to the Parkside clinic.

Heffington explained to her the risks posed by vaccine-preventable diseases. He then discussed the immediate threat her baby faced from measles, and the protection provided by an early ​MMR shot. He answered all of her questions about possible side effects. Finally, Black pressed him: "Would you do it?"

"Absolutely," the father of five replied. Black agreed to the first dose that day, and her daughter received a second dose last month.

"I wouldn't trust ​every doctor," Black said, "but I definitely trust Nathan."

(Reporting by Chad Terhune in Spartanburg, and Julie Steenhuysen in Chicago; Editing by Michele Gershberg and Diane Craft)