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At ACC spring meetings, there will be the usual work – and a feeling of dysfunction
ACC administrators, coaches and other school and conference officials will gather again this week for the latest iteration of the league’s spring meetings. The early-to-mid May date is the same as always. The venue, at the oceanside Ritz-Carlton on Amelia Island, outside of Jacksonville, FL, is the same as always. As for the vibe? It’s not exactly the same as always. (
Yahoo! Sports)
USGA opens new headquarters in Pinehurst, showcasing historic golf artifacts
The US Golf Association held its grand opening Friday for its new headquarters in Pinehurst. The new building at 3 Carolina Vista Drive in Pinehurst includes the World Golf Hall of Fame. Starting May 15, the exhibit will be free and open to the public. The new facility is full of historic artifacts, including a signed outfit worn by Payne Stewart at the 1999 U.S. Open. (
WRAL Sports Fan)
ACC 2024 College Football Primer: Top Players, Games, Transfers, Storylines, Predictions
The quarterbacks in the ACC will make the league as much of a must-watch as any. Clemson is set with Cade Klubnik, and SMU has a sneaky-hot NFL prospect in Preston Stone, but the new guys coming in will take the overall play up a few notches. DJ Uiagalelei going to Florida State is a big deal. Tyler Shough is about to have a monster season at Louisville. (
College Football News)
NIL-driven Las Vegas college basketball event with millions paid to schools nearly finalized
A one-of-a-kind revolutionary regular-season men's basketball event to be staged later this year in Las Vegas will be finalized in the coming weeks. Its selling point is based on the major factor that has drastically altered college sports over the past three years: name, image and likeness compensation for players. Games will be played in November. (
CBS Sports)
If they don't go pro, elite basketball recruits are more likely to transfer than stay put
The exodus of once-ballyhooed freshmen was a major undertone of college basketball's 2024 transfer portal cycle. Forty-eight of the top 61 recruits from the Class of 2023 are expected to return to the college ranks next season. Over half (25 of the 48) are in the transfer portal. UNC's
Elliot Cadeau and Michigan State's
Xavier Booker might be the outliers. (
CBS Sports)
'Forever and ever.' Why 10-year-old Mason Smith is on Clemson's baseball roster.
Clemson Tigers baseball's 2024 roster now has two No. 10s. The first everyone knows — preseason All-American outfielder, Cam Cannarella, listed at 6-foot, 180 pounds from Hartsville, South Carolina. The second one, many knew but more have come to know. He's Mason Smith, a 4-10, 85-pound left-handed pitcher and utility player from Lexington, SC. (
Charleston Post and Courier)
What happens when realignment leaves a college football team behind?
In last summer's depressing conference realignment free-for-all, Oregon State and Washington State were left without a home. But if there's any reassurance whatsoever to be found, it's that these schools are not alone. Other programs have been left behind before, and those that figured out ways to continue fielding strong teams eventually were rewarded. (
ESPN.com)
Mystik Dan’s Narrow, Thrilling Kentucky Derby Win Ends a Perfect Week for Racing
So it was on Saturday at Churchill Downs in the rare American horse race that truly matters, that Mystik Dan, a bay colt sent off at 18-1 odds, shot into the lead along the rail at the quarter pole, a move that 38-year-old veteran Kentucky jockey Brian Hernandez learned from watching three-time Derby winner Calvin Borel, and galloped into open space. (
NBC Sports)
Caleb Love among 44 players invited to G League Elite Camp
Former UNC and Arizona guard
Caleb Love will join five other former ACC basketball players in the G League Elite Camp next weekend. The 44-player camp, which is set for Chicago next Saturday and Sunday, will include Pittsburgh’s Blake Hinson, Florida State’s Baba Miller, Syracuse’s Judah Mintz, Georgia Tech’s Baye Ndongo, and Miami’s Wooga Poplar. (
Tar Heel Tribune)
South Carolina court orders ACC to provide Clemson with ESPN agreements
A South Carolina court has ordered the Atlantic Coast Conference to turn over documents about its agreements with ESPN that Clemson has requested in its lawsuit against the conference. The interim confidentiality order was released on Friday. It said the ACC has seven days to produce unredacted documents about its TV deal with ESPN to Clemson. (
Associated Press)