CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — College football lifer Sparky Woods is leaving the North Carolina football coaching staff to pursue other opportunities, coach Mack Brown confirmed Tuesday. Woods, 70, has served ...

LEXINGTON —When Sparky Woods, the VMI football coach, showed up at the Southern Conference’s 2014 Football Media Day last month, he said he was greeted warmly. “I think they were glad to see me back … ...

Woods and his staff had done a better job of recruiting the past couple of years, bringing in such players as quarterback Al Cobb and wideout Aaron Sanders. Cobb, a redshirt freshman, set ...

Sparky Woods, as he did as South Carolina’s head football coach from 1989 to 1993, tells it like it is. “I think that overall, in general, South Carolina was a real maturing experience for me,” Woods ...

University of Richmond assistant coach Sparky Woods said he will be glad to see players he recruited on behalf of VMI, glad to be part of a state rivalry involving two quality schools, and glad to ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — North Carolina football coach Mack Brown says the Tar Heels won’t make replacement hires for the departing Corey Holliday and Sparky Woods, but rather restructure the roles of ...

When Woods was hired by VMI, he became the first former USC head football coach to land a job in the same capacity after leaving Carolina. Woods was fired following the 1993 season after five years in ...

LEXINGTON -- Sparky Woods doesn't just want to win football games at VMI. He almost feels a burden to. An obligation. He looks at his players and senses their own burden, their own commitment that ...