LEXINGTON, Ky. — By the time you read this, the Division I men’s basketball committee may have announced an expansion of the NCAA tournament fields for future renewals of March Madness for both men’s and women’s basketball. It is widely expected that the current 68 team NCAA tourney bracket …
FRISCO, Texas — The Big 12 saved Colorado head coach Deion Sanders for last. Sanders spoke at Big 12 Media Days at The Star in Frisco on Wednesday to round out the conference’s coach press conferences. The former Cowboys star had plenty to say about Texas Tech’s recruiting and what he would …
FRISCO, Texas — Behren Morton has been at Texas Tech since 2021, practically a lifetime for quarterbacks these days. A lot has happened in Lubbock since he arrived as a teenager from Eastland. He goes back so far, he can even remember when the Red Raiders weren’t sitting on the front row of …
LOS ANGELES — As college athletic departments across the country brace for a new era of sharing revenue directly with their athletes, USC is eliminating a dozen jobs in its athletic department in an effort to reduce costs in the wake of the House vs. NCAA settlement. Six athletics employees …
FRISCO, Texas — There’s been much debate about expanding the College Football Playoff and what format the sport should use whenever the field is eventually expanded to 16 teams. Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark doubled down on his support of the 5+11 College Football Playoff format during h…
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida Gators football coach Billy Napier and his brethren have been bracing for a roster reckoning spurred by the House v. NCAA antitrust settlement. The landmark legislation went into effect Tuesday, but sweeping changes remained on the horizon, not yet at the doorstep…
LEXINGTON, Ky. — A former University of Kentucky student has filed a civil lawsuit against former UK football player and 2025 Buffalo Bills first-round NFL draft pick Maxwell Hairston alleging he sexually assaulted her in a UK dorm room in 2021. The student alleges “the emotional and psychol…
ORLANDO, Fla. — A new era of college athletics has begun with the approval of the House settlement on June 6. Starting on July 1, institutions such as Florida, Florida State and UCF began the process of offering revenue sharing to their athletes. Here are some of the top questions about that process: How will schools pay for it? Any school that aims to remain competitive in football will fully ...
DALLAS — In this era of college athletics, there is no offseason. Something is always changing, from realignment to the transfer portal to NIL. But for athletic directors and departments across the nation, the start of the 2025 summer may have been their least relaxing yet. Last month, Judge Claudia Wilken approved a $2.8 billion antitrust settlement that will allow universities to directly ...
SEATTLE — Let's say you've been working a job you love for as long as you remember while making $150K a year doing it. It's the life you've known, the reality you've embraced — the future you were depending on. Then, the company all but collapses, hoses you in the process, and leaves you earning $40K annually. If your salary doubled a few years later, would you be feeling grateful for the ...
SEATTLE — First impressions can be tricky to accurately assess because most everyone is often on their best behavior and anxious to please. Such was the case early Monday morning when the Washington men’s basketball team gathered for its first summer workout at Alaska Airlines Arena. Near the end of a lively and frenetic two-hour workout, the Huskies finished with a five-on-five fast-break ...
Four CVCC teams have now qualified for the B.A.S.S. College National Championship.
DETROIT — University of Michigan officials let Matt Weiss, the former University of Michigan co-offensive coordinator, coach in the 2022 Fiesta Bowl despite knowing he hacked into the personal accounts of female college athletes, according to a new federal lawsuit filed Friday. The allegation was contained in a lawsuit by 11 female students at UM and other schools that added former football ...
LOS ANGELES — Three years after USC and UCLA triggered a mass exodus by bolting for the Big Ten, the Pac-12 has extended an invitation to Texas State to give the conference eight football-playing members. Texas State, currently part of the Sun Belt Conference, is expected to accept the offer Monday, according to several media outlets. The school would join the Pac-12 in July 2026. USC and UCLA ...
ORLANDO, Fla. — Let me preface what I’m about to say by reiterating a stance I’ve had for many years about Billy Donovan. I believe he is the greatest college coach — football or basketball — in our state’s history. Many college coaches in Florida have won national titles in football, but Billy D. — until the University of Florida’s Todd Golden won this year’s NCAA Tournament — had been the ...
Appalachian State defeated Northern Iowa to win the FCS championship
The ability of college athletes to cash in on their collegiate fame has led to fewer players jumping early to the NBA draft.
The NBA season as it stands right now is heading rapidly towards the playoffs, and all eyes are going to be on the teams in them to see who comes out on top. But for many others, their eyes are already on a different goal: the NBA Draft. Because the college basketball season was able to go i…
The general manager position has steadily risen to become a key to success for college athletic departments.Â
SEATTLE — “As far as having a chip on my shoulder,” Danny Sprinkle said, “it’s kind of always who I’ve been. If I have to make stuff up in my own mind to put that chip there, that’s what I do.” In this case, UW’s men’s basketball coach doesn’t need to make up any extra motivation. Not when Sprinkle’s team finished last in the Big Ten in his first season in Seattle, producing a 4-16 record in ...
MIAMI — The University of Wisconsin and its name, image and likeness collective are reportedly suing the University of Miami allegedly interfering with a binding revenue-sharing contract between Wisconsin and cornerback Xavier Lucas, who transferred to UM in January despite Wisconsin blocking his release into the transfer portal. The lawsuit, reported Friday by Yahoo Sports, alleges UM ...
UNIVERSITY PARK, Texas — Though it was closer to the end of an academic year than the start, Friday’s SMU women’s basketball practice at the Crum Basketball Center felt like the first day of school. Players and coaches were still learning each others’ names. Some were still noticeably missing, either finishing up degrees at their former schools or playing overseas for their respective national ...
It's hard to miss a lot of the unselfish play and style the Huskies greats learned in their time under Geno Auriemma and Chris Dailey.
DENVER — For Kacie Breeding, this was never about dollars. It was about sense. “This isn’t about football and basketball,” said Breeding, a Boulder resident, engineer and former Vanderbilt runner who’s one of eight plaintiffs who filed an appeal against the NCAA’s historic antitrust settlement. “I hope you get your bag. “But we all were athletes at this school … there were not rules in place ...
SAN DIEGO — The first thing you need to understand about the House settlement, despite bold proclamations that it will spawn an exciting, new era of college athletics, is that it amounts to a big, fat L for the NCAA. It consolidated three antitrust lawsuits and opted to avoid trial and the prospect of potentially catastrophic financial losses, essentially accepting a 20-point beatdown instead ...
Caitlin Clark made a young fan’s dream come true with a heartfelt surprise. The fan, a little girl, was overwhelmed with emotion when her parents revealed they had secured tickets to watch Clark play in Las Vegas on June 22.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Everywhere you look across the landscape of college sports, athletic directors are holed up in boardrooms and budget meetings, furrowing their brows over spreadsheets and taking a chainsaw to line items like movie villains in a slasher flick — desperately trying to figure out how they’re going to come up with an additional $20.5 million a year to pay their athletes. Programs ...
MINNEAPOLIS — College sports officially ceased to exist on the evening of Friday, June 6, 2025. At least in the form that existed for more than a century. Amateurism is dead. Schools are now free to pay athletes directly, meaning they will receive a salary just as in any other profession, though technically athletes will not be employees of universities. Not yet. Will you still love college ...
LAS VEGAS — Imagine going through the first 45 years of your life longing for the presence of your father, only to discover you not only knew him, but he had been a key part of your life since high school. It sounds like a pitch for a Father’s Day movie, right? Yet that’s exactly the bombshell that dropped into the lap of Raiders running backs coach Deland McCullough in 2017. He learned the ...
FORT WORTH, Texas — For the major athletic departments that plan to continue to play in the highest level of college sports, the recent House v. NCAA settlement includes a few key provisions that are vital to the schools, but will be crushed in court. The case against the NCAA would be so easy to win that even a lawyer who graduated with an F-minus from the Clown College Technical School for ...
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