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The NCAA says player availability reports are intended to protect player welfare and competitive integrity from sports betting influences. Photo: Mitchell Layton/Getty Images The NCAA announced Thursday that it will introduce player availability reports for the 2026 Division I men’s and women’s basketball championships in an effort to address the pressure that sports betting puts […]
The College Sports Commission is hiring a federal prosecutor and former deputy assistant attorney general at the Justice Department to lead investigations for the new enforcement agency created by the power conferences. The CSC announced Wednesday that Katie Medearis, previously chief of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Western District of […]
If you watched college football on Saturday, you saw yet another series of misleading political ads urging you to call your local congressman and tell him to save college sports! The latter give the impression that women’s and Olympic sports are in trouble because having to pay athletes a salary will put their schools out […]
Editor’s note: This story is part of Peak, The Athletic’s bureau of leadership, personal development and performance through the lens of sports. Follow Peak here. During the 2018 NCAA men’s basketball tournament, when the Loyola University Chicago Ramblers advanced to the Final Four as an 11-seed Cinderella, Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt — the team’s 98-year-old […]
FORT COLLINS — The new Belgian porch opened his arms wide for the biggest beers in the building. Especially when that beer — CSU tight end and Valor Christian alum Rocky Beers – is 6-foot-4, 250 pounds and wants to party in the north end zone of Canvas Stadium after his first-ever multi-score game as […]
The commissioners of 31 Division I conferences sent a letter to congressional leaders on Friday urging them to pass the SCORE Act, a bipartisan bill in the House of Representatives intended to support college sports but that has drawn criticism for imposing restrictions on athletes. The letter from the College Commissioners Association was addressed to […]
Just as the most vocal skeptics of the Score Act within College Sports decided to promise their support for the account, another is introduced by one of the most fiery critics of potential legislation that took its way through the House of Representatives. Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Together with Sens. Cory Booker (DN.J.) and Richard […]
The first hour after most Gopher Football victories, usually what head coach PJ Fleck has made up as the theme of that week. After the 31-28 home victory on Rutgers in the Big Ten opener on Saturday, it was about players hunting dogs since the loss from 27-14 to California on September 14. Although that […]
Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the Loyola University Chicago Chaplain, who became known in her 90s as one of the most recognizable fans of College Basketball, while encouraging the Ramblers during their surprising run to the Final Four in 2018, officially withdrawn from her public tasks at 106. The university has announced this week that she […]
San Francisco 49ers third-string tight end Jake Tanges Had no catch and was only focused once during the first 20 games – and three years – of his NFL career. Nevertheless, when starter George Kittle went down with a hamstring injury in the first half of Sunday against the Seattle Seahawks, Tonges was ready. Tanges, […]
