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LSU board set to approve new contract for AD Verge Ausberry
The LSU Board of Supervisors is “on track to approve a new contract” for LSU AD Verge Ausberry on Thursday, according to Koki Riley of the New Orleans TIMES-PICAYUNE. The deal runs through 2030. Ausberry is “set to receive” $1.5M by the end of 2027, $1.6M the next year and $1.7M the year after that....
Reports: Fox finalizes deal for 2026 Big Ten title game rights from NBC
Fox “officially finalized its deal to re-acquire the rights from NBC to broadcast the 2026 Big Ten title game,” according to sources cited by Brett McMurphy of ON3. The Wall State Journal reported NBC “received between” $45M and $55M from Fox for the game. Sources said that NBC will “also receive on...
Ticking time bomb goes off: Seeing the impact of sports betting on college athletes and integrity
In January, federal authorities indicted 26 individuals in a college basketball point-shaving conspiracy involving more than 39 athletes across 17 different teams. At least two defendants were also implicated in a separate NBA gambling case, suggesting that professional and collegiate betting miscon...
Louisville athletics continues high spending while pushing for new revenue model
The Univ. of Louisville “sits in the crosshairs of a financial conundrum as much as any school,” as the Cardinals “have chosen a seemingly quixotic path: embrace fiscal irresponsibility while advocating for a new revenue model,” according to Pat Forde of SI. Louisville Athletics reported a deficit o...
UGA sees concerts at Sanford Stadium as new revenue stream
Univ. of Georgia’s Sanford Stadium will have country music singers Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan as headliners on Saturday for just the second concert in the stadium’s nearly 100-year history, and it “likely won’t be the last,” according to Fletcher Page of the ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION. As costs r...
Trump reiterates call for federal college sports legislation
President Trump on Tuesday “repeated his call for Congress to pass legislation that would rein in college sports at a time athletes are allowed to move freely from school to school and command salaries that put athletic departments in financial peril.” Trump’s remarks “came at a White House event ho...
Report: Presidential committee supports 24-team CFP expansion
A presidential committee is holding “conversations about the future” of the CFP, with “support for a 24-team playoff,” according to Ross Dellenger of YAHOO SPORTS. The 14-person presidential “media” committee -- its existence supported by the White House -- identified a “variety of ways that the ind...
Louisiana Tech, CUSA reach ‘settlement in principle’ in school’s attempt to leave early
Louisiana Tech and Conference USA have “reached a ‘settlement in principle’ that will get the ball rolling to allow” the school to join the Sun Belt as planned on July 1, according to Matt Belinson of the RUSTON DAILY LEADER. No formal signed and executed settlement agreement was reached by the fili...
SBJ College: The House settlement isn’t so settled
The latest legal ruling in college sports weakens a key component of the House settlement's oversight of NIL. Also: A leadership void in the wake of Val Ackerman's Big East retirement, and college sports comments from Fox Sports CEO Eric Shanks from the CAA World Congress of Sports.
College Convo: Fox Sports CEO sounds off on 24-team CFP, more
It was a busy week out in L.A. as dignitaries from around the sports world congregated for SBJ’s World Congress of Sports.
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His mindset, and I’m just getting to know him, but I don’t think it has as much to do with the cost of the T-shirts or wherever he’s saving money. It’s a mindset on how to run a business. It’s a scrappy approach to, I think, focusing on details, making people feel like everything matters.-- NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, on his pushback against the narrative that new Trail Blazers owner Tom Dundon is looking to cut spending.
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