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Steve Robinson Joins Elon Men’s Basketball Staff

Elon men's basketball head coach Billy Taylor announced the hiring of Steve Robinson, a veteran coach with more than four decades of experience and three national championships, as Special Assistant to the Head Coach for the Phoenix. Prior to Arizona, Robinson spent 18 seasons at UNC as an assistant coach under Hall of Fame head coach Roy Williams. (Elon Phoenix)

Duke’s Manny Diaz on Miami’s involvement in Darian Mensah transfer: ‘Only say what you can prove’

College football coaches haven’t been shy about tossing around accusations of tampering when players transfer to other schools. But Duke coach Manny Diaz wouldn’t use that word Friday when discussing the high-profile transfer of quarterback Darian Mensah to ACC rival Miami. When Mensah picked national runner-up Miami, Duke sued. (WRAL.com)

As SEC football media days begin, the specter of recent Big Ten dominance looms

The Southeastern Conference topped $1 billion in earnings for the first time last year. The Big Ten replied with a ‘hold my beer,’ generating $1.74 billion. It has also mobilized its powerful alumni, calling on the likes of Mark Cuban (Indiana), Larry Ellison (Michigan) and the OG NIL booster Phil Knight (Oregon) to use their wallets to display their school pride. (CNN)

Virginia names Beau Pribula starting QB entering preseason camp

Virginia has named Missouri transfer Beau Pribula as its starting quarterback heading into preseason camp, as the Cavaliers follow up a record 11-win season. Coach Tony Elliott said he informed the team in May of the decision, and spoke with both Pribula and Pitt transfer Eli Holstein, who competed during the spring. Pribula is entering his final college season. (ESPN)

ABS Coming to College Baseball?

For a few years Major League Baseball has been experimenting with Automated Balls and Strikes to try and figure out a way to create consistency throughout a sport where subjectivity can creep in and an Umpire has the ability to make a point depending on how they feel on a particular day. This experiment started at the Minor League Baseball level. (Tar Heel Blog)

Could the SEC really break away? Commissioner says talks are real but that’s not what they want

Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey said Monday that leaders of the powerhouse league — some of them frustrated over the changes upending their industry — are having “real” conversations about breaking away from the rest of college sports, though that is not the preferred solution. “They’re real,” Greg Sankey said Monday. (Associated Press)

Pitt's Pat Narduzzi sparks fire at media days, claims tampering; touts ACC as better than Big Ten

On Friday at the 2026 ACC Kickoff, Pitt head coach Pat Narduzzi voiced his views on several topics regarding the state of the sport. Pitt’s head coach claimed that Miami had tampered with its quarterback, freshman Mason Heintschel, this past offseason before getting another ACC QB, Duke’s Darian Mensah. Narduzzi wasn’t done there, however. (MSN.com)

David Teel: Jim Phillips’ competitive fire burns at ACC Kickoff

In the increasingly transactional world of college athletics, ACC commissioner Jim Phillips remains incurably, unapologetically and, most important, genuinely relational. Conversations begin, and close, with questions about family. Kids and spouses. School, vacations and weddings. He guides the conference in the same manner. (MSN.com)

Darian Mensah unfazed by critics after controversial move from Duke to Miami: 'Why would I worry?'

The ACC kicked off its three-day football media days with a banger: its most talented team and reigning national championship runner-up, Miami, parading the league's most visible player around the downtown Charlotte Hilton just six months after he left one conference member for another and was then sued by the latter. It sounds incredibly spicy. (Yahoo! Sports)

'North Wilkesboro is back': What return of NASCAR points race means to family of track's founder

For the first time in 30 years, a points race is back at North Wilkesboro Speedway — this weekend's Window World 450. Fans are ecstatic about the return of a NASCAR Cup Series race at the track, including Mike Staley, whose father, Enoch Staley, started the North Wilkesboro Speedway. The countdown is on for the rumbling of seats and the roaring of engines. (Spectrum News)

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