It took 35 years, five swings and a near-death experience, but the Pac-12 finally is planting its flag in Texas. As it exists today, the conference is a shell of…
Jon Wilner
The Pac-12 on Monday took the next step in the latest phase of its remodeling project, announcing CBS as the conference’s “primary long-term media partner” beginning next summer. No other…
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The Pac-12 is on the brink of securing the next piece to its multi-year reclamation project. A media rights deal could be announced this week but should be sealed before the month…
The Big 12 performed well last season from start to finish, with five teams in the top 10 of the AP preseason poll and one team, Houston, in the NCAA…
The news so many Cal football fans longed for finally broke early Monday as athletic director Jim Knowlton announced his retirement, effective July 1. In many ways, Knowlton’s tenure ended…
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The Friday news dump to end all Friday news dumps came last week at roughly 6:15 p.m., when U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken approved the settlement terms of the landmark House…
Cast against their brown and beige office backdrops, the four horsemen of the settlement spoke as one. Tony Petitti, Jim Phillips, Greg Sankey and Brett Yormark — commissioners of the…
A few minutes after 6 p.m. on Friday, college sports changed forever and for the better. U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken dropped a 76-page guillotine on NCAA amateurism, approving…