Tag: college sports
The holiday season is a time to consider a generous gift to those in need, such as a food bank, a homeless shelter or perhaps the athletic department at your alma mater to help finance…
Tracking the changes upending college sports can be as frenetic as flipping between all the games going down over the first week of March Madness. Ultimately, those changes could impact what America’s favorite basketball tournament…
Georgia coach Kirby Smart remembers having his head shaved when he was a freshman football player at his alma mater back in the mid-1990s and busing tables after team meals. Older players putting the newbies…
ARLINGTON, Texas — The three-letter monster that the NCAA and its fleet of lawyers predicted would be the demise of college athletics has changed amateur sports, not ended it. NIL (name imagine likeness) celebrated its…
The announcements came in a flurry as soon as the calendar flipped to July one year ago. Miami quarterback D’Eriq King was among the first college athletes to capitalize on the use of his name,…
Going for gold has taken on a different connotation since the Supreme Court ruled college athletes can be paid by parties not directly affiliated with their schools. Now, another ideal this nation once embraced —…
They must be scripting this stuff, right? Two of college football’s most powerful coaches go at each other this week like they’d sat down in advance and thought it all through. Is the Southeastern Conference…
There were more than 4,500 Wake Forest students at Saturday night’s game — out of an undergraduate enrollment of 5,441 — and a good number of them ended up celebrating on the turf after the…
Whether to proceed with college and professional sports in the pandemic should be a fairly straightforward question. The risks of our activities have to be judged against their necessity, and given that no single season…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Mike Krzyzewski believes its time for college sports to get in step with the times when it comes to paying athletes, though the Duke coach said getting there raises a lot…
