Colleges

SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey noted that the conference “can’t simply break a deal and call off” the football championship game because a “portion of the fan base isn’t happy with the potential impact on their team” ahead of the CFP, according to Mike Organ of the Nashville TENNESSEAN. The future of ...

Duke’s partnership with Amazon, where the streamer will carry three high profile non-league games against UConn, Michigan and Gonzaga on Prime Video, is “a multiyear agreement and the NIL opportunities for Duke will be huge -- in the millions annually,” according to sources cited by Matt Norlander o...

Marshall is set to become the first school in the Sun Belt Conference to agree to add a corporate jersey patch. The school is slated to unveil a five-year deal with Marshall Health Network that will see the company’s logo appear on all Thundering Herd athletic uniforms beginning in 2026-27, a source...

Duke is entering into a “first-of-its-kind enterprise partnership with Amazon,” with Prime Video “televising three marquee men’s college basketball games next season.” Those will be against UConn in Las Vegas on Nov. 25, Michigan at Madison Square Garden on Dec. 21 and Gonzaga in Detroit on Feb. 20....

The Univ. of Memphis’s lease agreement with FedExForum and the Grizzlies is set to expire June 30, but UM AD Ed Scott “anticipates they will remain a tenant,” according to Jason Munz of the Memphis COMMERCIAL APPEAL. Scott said, “I expect we’ll sit down probably within the next month or so and have ...

Notre Dame is set to announce a restructuring of responsibilities atop its athletic department, Sports Business Journal has learned.

Dam Nation, the former NIL collective for Oregon State, has filed a federal lawsuit against Blueprint Sports and Entertainment for “breach of contract,” according to James Crepea of the Portland OREGONIAN. The six-page complaint filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Portland states that it is a ...

The Big 12 has “struck its long-discussed private capital deal — the first such publicized conference-wide agreement in major college sports,” according to Ross Dellenger of YAHOO SPORTS. The Big 12’s presidents and chancellors “ratified the five-year agreement with capital partner RedBird last week...

Lions WR Jameson Williams filed a “lawsuit against the NCAA, the Big Ten and the Southeastern Conference” in L.A. County on Monday with allegations the entities have been “using his name, image and likeness without properly compensating him for it,” according to court documents obtained by Lewis &am...

The NCAA has “initiated the final steps to expand the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball tournaments to 76 teams,” according to sources cited by ESPN.com. The expansion, which has been discussed for more than a year, is “on track to be formalized in the upcoming weeks and would begin this coming seas...