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Stanford football receives $50 million gift from former player

Stanford football has received the largest non-facilities gift in its history, a $50 million gift from former player and longtime supporter Bradford Freeman ’64. The contribution reflects both Freeman’s deep connection to the program and his belief in its potential at a time of transition. The donation comes at a pivotal moment for the football program. (Stanford Daily)

Fed-Up NIL Collectives Are Bypassing NIL Deal Approval Process

Multiple major power conference collectives are giving up on trying to work through the NIL Go clearinghouse and within the bounds of the new rules set up by the House v. NCAA settlement. At least two collectives have begun to pay players before the submitted deals have been approved, and are aware of instances where players haven’t logged deals at all. (Front Office Sports)

College football Week 7 schedule: What to watch, TV channels, streaming, Saturday kickoff times

Few games are bigger than No. 7 Indiana's road trip to No. 3 Oregon. Elsewhere in the Big Ten, No. 17 Illinois hosts top-ranked Ohio State. The SEC is also home to a top-25 clash as the No. 8 Alabama Crimson Tide has to pack its bags to play at the No. 14 Missouri Tigers. There's plenty beyond those headline acts for college football fans to keep an eye on. (CBS Sports)

Sister Jean, beloved Loyola-Chicago chaplain, dies at 106

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the beloved, longtime chaplain of the Loyola-Chicago men's basketball team who became a folk hero during its Cinderella run to the Final Four in 2018, died Thursday, the school said. She was 106. Sister Jean, born Aug. 21, 1919, joined the staff at Loyola-Chicago in 1991. Three years later, she became part of the basketball team. (ESPN.com)

ACC basketball issues have reached critical mass. There's only one way out

In the end, there's only so much the league office can do. There's only one answer, one solution to the ACC's basketball problem. Win more games. It has been four years since the ACC got more than five teams into the NCAA tournament, and only four made it last March, with UNC narrowly the last team into the field to keep it from being even worse. (MSN.com)

NCAA panel proposes rule change to OK sponsor logos on college uniforms

An NCAA committee has proposed a change to rules barring commercial logos on uniforms in a move that would clear the way for sponsor patches to appear on jerseys next year. Under current rules, the only commercial logo permitted on athletes’ equipment or apparel during regular-season games is the logo of the equipment or apparel manufacturer. (Associated Press)

College Sports Commission sets up tip line for NIL violations

The College Sports Commission launched a tip line Wednesday that allows for anonymous reporting of potential rule violations in the new name, image, and likeness era. The commission’s CEO, Bryan Seeley, said the reporting line adds an important method of gathering information about the thousands of deals and hundreds of schools it is overseeing. (Associated Press)

NCAA adopts Jan. 2-16 college football transfer portal window in 2026

The NCAA is moving transfer portal season in college football from December to January. The Division I Administrative Committee voted Tuesday to adopt Jan. 2-16 as the new transfer portal window for all FBS and FCS players in 2026. College football players, including graduate transfers, now must wait until Jan. 2 to enter their names in the transfer portal. (ESPN.com)

ACC basketball's lack of talent is hurting more than attrition of Hall of Fame coaches

For a league trying to return to the top of men’s college basketball, the ACC is doing a poor job of promoting its stars. The few of them that they have. The retirement of the ACC's top coaches, including Duke's Mike Krzyzewski and North Carolina's Roy Williams, over the past five seasons certainly contributed to the valley the league finds itself in now. (MSN.com)

Commissioner Jim Phillips sees new basketball scheduling model as boost for ACC high-major matchups

Jim Phillips says the ACC is reshaping its basketball schedule to better position the league for national prominence. For the first time since 2018-19, ACC men’s teams will play an 18-game conference slate rather than 20. The reduction aims to give schools more flexibility to schedule high-major nonconference games that can boost NCAA Tournament résumés. (Tar Heel Tribune)

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