Colleges

The Univ. of Oregon filed a lawsuit alleging that a former football player “failed to make a payment that would have released him from his contract with the team,” according to Ryan Clarke of the Portland OREGONIAN. According to court documents filed May 15 in Lane County Circuit Court, former Orego...

Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorsby, who has sought treatment for a gambling addiction, on Monday “filed for an injunction against the NCAA ... seeking his college eligibility for the 2026 college football season.” The filing, made in district court in Lubbock County, Texas, cites the NCAA’s “deeply hypocr...

Court listings have revealed that the Pac-12 and Mountain West “have reached a settlement in principle” in the Pac-12’s poaching penalty lawsuit against the MWC. There were “no details, no docs and nothing” was finalized, but a hearing is “scheduled” for June 9 (X, 5/18). The Mountain West had been ...

A bipartisan Senate bill backed by the White House and major stakeholders provides the “clearest path yet for codifying NCAA rules into law and shielding the organization from antitrust challenge.” A presidential committee on college sports, chaired by Yankees President Randy Levine and Florida Gov....

Georgia Tech Athletic Director Ryan Alpert steps through a pair of glass doors, dodges a scissor lift and looks toward the grand staircase at the front of the Thomas A. Fanning Student-Athlete Performance Center, where drills echo as crews finish the Yellow Jackets’ new football offices and athlete ...

The most important thing NIL has produced is not a brand deal, but the raising of a question not seriously considered before in college sports: Who actually owns the value that an athlete creates?

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...

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...

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...

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