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Rebuilt Pac-12 announces 5-year deal to make CBS its top media partner
One year ahead of the Pac-12 officially adding six new members, the rebuilt conference has secured a deal to make CBS its top media rights partner for the foreseeable future. On Monday, the league and network announced that they have agreed to terms on a five-year extension of their current partnership, beginning with the upcoming 2025-26 college football season. (
Awful Announcing)
How NIL money is reshaping the NBA draft: Fewer early entrants, more college stars staying put
It’s been four years since college athletes were permitted to profit off the use of their name, image and likeness (NIL), opening the door for athlete compensation that was once forbidden by NCAA rules. Next week marks the official start of revenue sharing where schools can begin directly paying athletes following the $2.8 billion House antitrust settlement. (
Associated Press)
A New World on July 1
The most well-known aspect of the House legal settlement, whose terms will become the college sports world’s revolutionary new framework on July 1, is that colleges and universities will be permitted to distribute to their own athletes more than $20 million per year for the first time in the 119-year history of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. (
Chapelboro.com)
Sources: NCAA close to decision on tournament expansion
A decision on whether or not to expand the NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments will be made in the upcoming weeks, sources told ESPN. If the decision is made to expand, the expansion would begin in the 2025-26 season, per sources, and the tournament would expand to no more than 76 teams. The NCAA remains in talks with its media partners. (
ESPN.com)
Wisconsin files suit against Miami for poaching Xavier Lucas while he was under contract with school
In a landmark moment in college athletics, one university has filed suit against another for the poaching of a college football player under contract. The University of Wisconsin and its NIL collective filed a complaint in state circuit court against the University of Miami over alleged tortious interference, according to documents obtained by Yahoo Sports. (
Yahoo! Sports)
UNC, NC State set to collect share of sports betting tax revenue
North Carolina and NC State, the largest athletic departments in the UNC System, would receive less money from sports betting taxes under the House’s proposed budget than under the budget passed by the Senate earlier this session. UNC and NC State don’t currently receive any money from sports betting taxes, unlike the other 13 UNC System schools. (
WRAL.com)
3 biggest stats that define Oklahoma City's remarkable NBA championship season
The Oklahoma City Thunder are a unique NBA champion, incredibly young and absolutely dominant. With an average age of 25.6 years, the Thunder are the second youngest championship team in league history, older than only the 1976-77 Portland Trail Blazers. The Thunder are just the fourth team in NBA history to win 84 games. (
NBA.com)
LSU wins 2025 College World Series, 8th national title
With a 5-3 win over Coastal Carolina Sunday afternoon, LSU swept the College World Series finals and secured the program’s eighth national championship and second in three seasons. Its eight national titles are second all-time, trailing only USC’s 12, which last won one in 1998, and are now two ahead of third-place University of Texas. (
D1 Baseball)
How Rosenblatt Stadium made 75 years of Omaha hosting the College World Series possible
Rosenblatt Stadium, Omaha’s diamond on a hill, was the Metro’s original home of the College World Series. “The initial mecca of college baseball,” said Jack Diesing Jr., president and chairman of College World Series of Omaha, Inc. The stadium made this year’s diamond anniversary for College World Series in Omaha possible. (
WOWT.com)
What's holding up CFP expansion? SEC and Big Ten are at a potential impasse on these key issues
Deep within the Blue Ridge Mountains, the historical Biltmore Estate Hilltop Inn rises above an ocean of rolling greenery, its high stone walls and floor-to-ceiling windows all tucked between two giant peaks: Mount Mitchell and Mount Pisgah. Inside the Biltmore, two goliaths within the landscape of college sports, the SEC and Big Ten, are at odds. (
Yahoo! Sports)