Colleges

In Wichita, Kellis Robinett noted a “new LED lighting system will be installed” at Kansas State’s Bill Snyder Family Stadium before the 2026 football season that will see “purple lights flashing and music blaring after every touchdown.” K-State AD Gene Taylor said that the school has been “working o...

A big part of Univ. of Colorado AD Fernando Lovo’s plan to make CU better is to “generate revenue,” according to Brian Howell of the Boulder DAILY CAMERA. Lovo took over a department facing a “projected budget deficit” of $27M for the current fiscal year, which ends June 30. Since then, he has worke...

Since 2002, Black student athletes at Division I schools have increased their graduation rate from 56% to 82%. This improvement is supported by higher education reforms, including mandating stronger academic performance to be eligible to participate in college sports and requiring athletes meet benc...

Univ. of Georgia President Jere Morehead on Thursday said that he is “prepared to vote on creating an SEC mechanism for rule enforcement in the aftermath of the SCORE Act stalling out in Congress.” Morehead, who voiced his interest in the conference creating its own rules back in January, said, “If ...

The Diamond Cup, a proposed eight-team pool-play event to debut during that 2027-28 men’s college basketball season, is “in the latter planning stages,” according to sources cited by Matt Norlander of CBSSPORTS.com. The event would be “blue blood-laden” -- the schools in talks are Arizona, Connectic...

The Texas Tech athletics budget for FY2026 recently grew by $10M, with Board of Regent Finance & Investments Committee Chair Tim Culp saying that the adjustment “would bring the budget to about” $175M for the fiscal year that ends Aug. 31, according to Don Williams of the LUBBOCK AVALANCHE-JOURN...

The SCORE Act “has died” and is “unlikely to be revived during this calendar year,” according to sources cited by Ross Dellenger of YAHOO SPORTS. The college sports industry’s “next, new hope for legislation” now rests in negotiations between Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) tha...

Embedded within the equation of a 24-team College Football Playoff is the calculation of how much any broadcast partner would pay for a “new set of games involving second-tier teams that might not garner the same TV ratings as some of the biggest programs in the sport,” according to Eddie Pells of t...

Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark said he supports a 24-team CFP field because of “the access,” but also that it “takes some heat out of this system, and I think that’s good for everyone.” Yormark, appearing on “Big 12 Today,” said the cost of building rosters currently is “all based on what does it...

CSMG and Excelsior Sports and Entertainment have formed a joint venture, under which CSMG will venture outside of the collegiate space for the first time and into pro sports and entertainment.