Colleges
Georgia Tech opens student-athlete performance center
Georgia Tech’s new Thomas A. Fanning Student-Athlete Performance Center officially opened Thursday, completing a project that spanned “no less than eight years” and cost $90M, according to Ken Sugiura of the ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION. The building replaces the Edge Center, which was opened in 198...
Arkansas to reinstate men’s and women’s tennis following groundswell of support, fundraising
The Univ. of Arkansas “will reinstate its men’s and women’s tennis programs” just 20 days after the Razorbacks cut both, following “a groundswell of support” to keep them, according to Matt Jones of the ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE. Since the April 24 announcement of the cuts, supporters have “raised r...
Power conferences eyeing tiered bowl system for teams not in proposed 24-team CFP
Bowl Season Exec Dir Nick Carparelli said that college football’s power conferences are considering a plan that would “pool their best teams left out of the proposed 24-team College Football Playoff and place them in a tiered bowl system,” according to Scott Dochterman of THE ATHLETIC. One idea disc...
Keepsake trunk brand Petite Keep launches Collegiate Collection
St. Louis-based keepsake trunk company Petite Keep has expanded its offerings with the Collegiate Collection, featuring officially licensed trunks with branding for Tennessee, Missouri, LSU, TCU, Alabama, Auburn, Ole Miss, Texas A&M and Florida.
Power Four weighs governance reset as NIL spending strains revenue-sharing cap
AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. -- Pounding rain gave way to sunshine as ACC administrators clasped their carry-ons and exited the Ritz-Carlton on Wednesday at the conclusion of the league’s spring meetings.
Sports and entertainment sector is losing the war for talent — and it doesn’t even know about the battle
This month, roughly 2 million students will cross a commencement stage, shake a hand, and step into the job market with a diploma and a plan. For the ones who dreamed of working in sports or entertainment media — and there are more of them than you might think — that plan may have been spoiled a lon...
Senate could create bipartisan college sports bill if votes needed for SCORE Act not met
The SCORE Act will have to garner the 60 votes needed in the Senate, but a “bipartisan, all-encompassing college sports bill originating” from the Senate itself might have a chance, according to Ross Dellenger of ON3.com. Senators Ted Cruz and Maria Cantwell and their staffs have been “engrossed in ...
Nebraska’s deal with Rhule includes payments for IP rights
As part of his new deal with the Univ. of Nebraska, football coach Matt Rhule “agreed to sell his intellectual property rights to the school, which will pay his annual salary to two sources,” according to Sam McKewon of the OMAHA WORLD-HERALD. The first contract is a standard coaching agreement, whi...
San Diego State football season-ticket sales trending up
San Diego State football season-ticket sales are “trending upward after three straight years of decline,” a “product of last year’s nine-win season, anticipation for this year’s move to the reconstituted Pac-12 and a decrease in ticket prices,” according to Kirk Kenney of the SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE...
Momentum picking up for 24-team CFP, but SEC still holds key card
There is “more momentum than ever” for a 24-team CFP following the Big 12 and ACC coming out in support of the Big Ten’s initial idea, meaning “all eyes are on the SEC heading into their spring meetings in Destin” later this month, according to ESPN’s Heather Dinich. The SEC has to agree with whatev...
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