Colleges

NCAA President Charlie Baker is “now firmly advocating” a move to the “five-in-five” standard for student-athlete eligibility to “eliminate the current restriction in Division I of playing four seasons within a five-year span that features numerous waivers and redshirts,” according to Bryan Fischer ...

The Univ. of Michigan sold nearly $15M “in alcoholic beverages” at Michigan Stadium over the past two years since alcohol became legal inside the stadium before the 2024 football season, according to Sam Jane of MLIVE.com. In terms of revenue, the university generated about $2.3M during its inaugura...

The question of expanding the CFP to 16 or 24 teams remained unresolved at the annual two-day CFP spring meetings, but for the first time, the meetings “paved the way for a more intense holistic examination and financial evaluation of a 24-team postseason,” according to Ross Dellenger of YAHOO SPORT...

The LSU Board of Supervisors is “on track to approve a new contract” for LSU AD Verge Ausberry on Thursday. 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. His new deal also includes “incentives if LSU football, me...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...