SPOKANE, Wash. — This San Diego State is unfair. This San Diego State is not cool, especially when all the opponent has going for it is a fairy tale. This version showed up Sunday and put together a comprehensively unkind performance, making happy and hopeful Yale miserable for almost every second of it. San Diego … Read more
With ESPN’s direct-to-consumer plan, the network is attempting to uphold its mission statement of, “Serving sports fans. Anytime. Anywhere.” In the process, Disney CEO Bob Iger and ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro are looking to make deals. Anytime. Anywhere. Iger and Pitaro are trying, through equity stake talks with the biggest leagues and with distribution discussions … Read more
Who’s in your Final Four? Who’s winning it all? Those are the only questions worth asking for the next couple of days. So, naturally, we asked our staff to answer them. Not surprisingly, UConn was the most popular national championship pick, but the Huskies aren’t unanimous among our college basketball experts. GO DEEPER NCAA Tournament … Read more
While Rick Pitino recognized that “bitterness does not help” after the NCAA selection committee snubbed St. John’s, the coach was critical of the NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET) rankings that serve a key role in assessing college basketball teams. “I think we all should probably never mention that word (NET) again because I think it’s fraudulent,” … Read more
HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — The Dartmouth men’s basketball team voted to unionize Tuesday in an unprecedented step toward forming the first labor union for college athletes and another attack on the NCAA’s deteriorating amateur business model. In an election supervised by the National Labor Relations Board in the school’s Human Resources offices, the players voted … Read more
Jon Sanderson, the longtime Michigan basketball strength and conditioning coach and key figure on the staff of two Final Four teams, has officially parted ways with the university after 15 years with the program. The university confirmed Sanderson’s departure in a statement to The Athletic, saying: “Jon Sanderson has resigned his position with the University … Read more
A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the NCAA from enforcing its prohibitions against recruits signing monetary deals with booster groups, delivering a significant blow to the NCAA’s attempts to stop universities and their supporters from paying athletes to play at their schools. The notion of amateurism has long been a bedrock principle of the … Read more
Two useful things happened for St. John’s on Wednesday night: First, it won a basketball game for the first time in two weeks — just the second time in seven games — and then Hall of Fame coach Rick Pitino apologized for trashing his roster over the weekend. “These guys have never failed me,” Pitino … Read more
Oregon State and Washington State reached an agreement in principle with the 10 departing Pac-12 schools to settle their ongoing legal battle over control of the conference’s board and assets, the 12 universities announced Thursday. The outgoing schools have “agreed to forfeit a portion of distributions over the rest of the 2023-2024 year and provide … Read more
NCAA president Charlie Baker on Tuesday proposed the creation of a new subdivision within Division I that would allow the highest-resource schools the ability to compensate athletes directly through a trust fund and direct name, image and likeness (NIL) payments. The groundbreaking proposal was sent out to Division I members and obtained by The Athletic … Read more