With each passing day, the NCAA loses more and more control over college athletics. The emergence of NIL sped up a process that had been in motion for years. ESPN college football expert Kirk Herbstreit joined OutKick’s Dan Dakich and suggested the SEC and Big 10 join forces to create a new governing body.
Perhaps the idea of an entire governing body for all college sports is an outdated concept. That’s something Herbstreit hinted at while discussing the topic.
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Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry wants to set the record straight on his fitness status going into a critical stretch of the regular season.
The 35-year-old trudged through a rough shooting night in his team’s 119—103 loss to the Denver Nuggets on Sunday, and coach Steve Kerr was asked after the game whether Curry might be fatigued at this point in the season. Kerr noted that Curry has looked “tired” this past week and said he would consider giving the superstar a rest day.
Zach Edey can become the first person to win back-to-back national player of the year awards since Ralph Sampson did so in 1982.
Breanna Stewart and the Liberty structured her contract to improve the super-team’s bench.
Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne is proposing a revolutionary idea to end court storming in the college basketball world.
Byrne suggests that the home team should forfeit the game if a mass of fans swarm the court after a victory.
“You have two kids run out there, no, but when you have a sustained rush like what just happened the other day at Wake, you lose the game,” Byrne said, via AL.com. “That will get people to stop.
The Mid-American Conference board today voted to add the University of Massachusetts as a full member, beginning with the 2025-26 academic year, per The Athletic’s Nicole Auerbach. The news was confirmed by ESPN’s Pete Thamel.
UMass is expected to join the conference in all sports. Up until now, the program had been an FBS Independent. UMass football was in the MAC from 2012-15, and with the program’s return, UConn and Notre Dame stand as the last FBS independent programs. The Fighting Irish, however, have a long-term scheduling agreement with the ACC.
The Kansas City Chiefs won their third Super Bowl in five years earlier this month when they beat the San Francisco 49ers in an overtime thriller that ended with a walk-off touchdown pass by Patrick Mahomes.
The Super Bowl each year is quite a spectacle, with hundreds of millions of fans from all over the world watching on television. What’s missed on the broadcast, however, is the quiet moment right before kickoff as the teams get ready for the game to finally begin.
Bryce Harper has said he wants to end his career in Philly, and the 13-year, $330M deal he signed in 2019 should get him there. Yet he’s lobbying for a new contract.
When PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan sat next to Saudi Public Investment Fund governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan on June 6, 2023, and the two announced a framework agreement there was a sense of hope that the rapid division we were witnessing in professional golf would slow down. We now know that hope was false.
Nine months have passed since the framework agreement was announced and the PGA Tour, Saudi PIF, and LIV Golf have only grown further apart.