Colleges

Ole Miss is set to announce a deal with The LinkU, Sports Business Journal has learned. An official announcement is slated for Tuesday. The LinkU boasts a portfolio of 30-plus brands that will be available to work with Rebels athletes. The company is also slated to be integrated into the school’s NI...

Tuscaloosa circuit court judge Daniel Pruet has “denied Charles Bediako’s motion seeking a preliminary injunction to allow him to continue playing basketball for Alabama.” The temporary restraining order that had “previously allowed Bediako to play for Alabama this season also is no longer in place....

Univ. of Oregon football season-ticket holders “will see a significant price increase” heading into the 2026 season, with tickets up an average of 15.33% over last year in total cost across the various price points, according to Ryan Clarke of the Portland OREGONIAN. That includes an average ticket ...

UCLA’s athletic department released its financial report for FY2025, showing a $21.6M shortfall that, “while substantial, is nonetheless smaller than the prior year’s total,” according to Jon Wilner of the San Jose MERCURY NEWS. The report showed a $30M “assist from central campus,” driving that two...

As comparisons are made between the Mountain West Conference’s media agreement with Fox, CBS, and The CW and the Pac-12’s media rights deals with CBS and The CW, in the end, “both conferences won,” according to Jon Wilner of the San Jose MERCURY NEWS. The MWC’s deal “not only saved the conference bu...

FCS power North Dakota State football has “agreed to join the Mountain West Conference in 2026.” NDSU “will remain in the Summit League for all other sports except wrestling,” which is in the Big 12. NDSU AD Matt Larsen noted that the MWC “signed the agreement Sunday ... making the move official.” T...

Brendan Lynch spent the second half of 2025 reframing his definition of fan. Hired as the president of Paciolan in July, his eight-plus years at Ticketmaster (six of which as global EVP of enterprise and revenue) had been colored by a heavily pro-sports perspective.

North Dakota State and the Mountain West are “in ‘serious dialogue’ about a football-only invitation to the league for the 2026 season.” There are “ongoing negotiations about an entrance fee that NDSU would have to pay to enter” the MWC, which “could be in the eight-figure range.” That goes “on top ...

When Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) cautioned Big Ten presidents about opening Big Ten Enterprises to an outside investor whose “primary goal is to make money” and would be “unlikely to align with the academic mission of your universities,” her warning was a critique of profit versus purpose.

Ole Miss athletics “improved on its bottom line” in FY25 but “still operated at a deficit,” according to Sam Hutchens of the MISSISSIPPI CLARION LEDGER. Losses totaled $5,147,021 in FY25, which marked an “improvement” of approximately $2.6M from where the school was in FY2024. Ole Miss’ total operat...