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 […]
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 […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Last season, when Louisville hired Pat Kelsey following the worst two-season stretch in program history, the immediate goal was simple: respectability. “There were two tough years before we got here,” Kelsey said Wednesday at ACC Tipoff. “So we couldn’t do anything wrong, right?” That’s why, even as Kelsey’s Cards stumbled out of […]
Adrian Wojnarowski speaks during the 2025 Basketball Hall of Fame Enshrinement Ceremony on September 5, 2025. Jesse D. Garrabrant Voy bombs! St. Bonaventure general manager of men’s basketball Adrian Wojnarowski returns to media by hosting a new series called “The Program with Woj.” This is not a harbinger of a return to an insider role, […]