- Following its first national championship in program history, LSU is on pace to be the best-selling women’s basketball collegiate champion ever in terms of merchandise sales, per data from Fanatics.
- Longtime NBA player J.R. Smith, now a collegiate golfer at North Carolina A&T, puts new life -- and old fears -- on-screen with documentary series coming to Prime Video, notes SBJ's Erik Bacharach.
- After Q1, the CFP title game ranks No. 26 in terms of the most-watched programs of the year on U.S. airwaves, just ahead of an episode of "Next Level Chef" that aired right after the Super Bowl on Fox, notes my colleague Austin Karp. There are eight other college telecasts in the top 50 as well (one football, seven from March Madness).
- Touting itself as the college version of The Players’ Tribune, ByUs began its digital publishing operations with stories that provide an inside look at a college athlete’s life, with no detail too small.
