Colleges

Fox Sports is funding the creation of the Fandom and Social Connection Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy. This latest effort builds on the network’s strategy to better understand fandom not only as a driver of engagement, but as a force s...

USC and Notre Dame are “in active discussions to resume play” six months after one of college football’s most storied rivalries stalled. It is “not clear yet when the rivalry series will return or what the terms will be.” A source said that Notre Dame is “now willing to discuss playing the game earl...

The Xavier Univ. men’s basketball team wrapped up “one of the most successful transfer portal hauls when the portal closed a couple of weeks ago,” and the school was able to do that for the “simple explanation: money,” according to Steve Watkins of the CINCINNATI BUSINESS COURIER. Xavier has “booste...

The White House committee tasked with reforming college athletics is “circulating a draft of ideas for discussion” that would constitute the “most ambitious federal government intervention into college sports ever,” according to Brandon Marcello of CBSSPORTS.com. President Trump’s College Sports Ref...

Michigan State AD J Batt said that upgrades to Spartan Stadium are “in the planning phases and projected to be finished by 2029,” according to Chris Solari of the DETROIT FREE PRESS. Batt said that the football team “will be able to play through the construction when it gets underway.” He said that ...

Fairleigh Dickinson is slated to name Jason Young as its next AD, a source told Sports Business Journal. Young most recently served as assistant VP and deputy AD at FDU, where he oversaw marketing, media relations and the business offices. He also worked as the sport administrator for baseball, men’...

Scott Dolson has been the architect of one of the greatest stories in the history of college sports over the last year-plus, overseeing the overhaul of Indiana football from a Big Ten doormat to national champion following his hiring of head coach Curt Cignetti.

Candice Story Lee has led Vanderbilt to an athletic renaissance during her nearly five-year tenure at the helm of her alma mater.

Mark Harlan has earned this nomination in part for making noteworthy moves in the industry over the last year, including securing an estimated $500 million private equity deal with Otro Capital and positioning Utah as a first mover in the space.

Kirby Hocutt has spearheaded a remarkable transformation of Texas Tech into an NIL-era juggernaut.