The Pac-12 placed five teams in the AP preseason poll on Monday, equalling the Big Ten’s total and falling one short of matching the SEC’s contingent. In advance of the…
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Do-overs? Absolutely, Kirk Schulz has a list of decisions he’d like back following the collapse of the Pac-12. The Washington State president and chair of the Pac-12 board was heavily…
One week after presiding over the collapse of a 108-year-old conference, George Kliavkoff’s role remains unchanged. “He’s still our commissioner, and there have been no discussions with him besides him…
The market rendered its verdict last week as Apple offered $25 million per school annually for the Pac-12’s media rights, with the potential for more if the conference met certain…
The Hotline mailbag typically publishes each Friday. Given the extraordinary developments that led to the demise of the Pac-12, we are planning a series of mailbags (beginning today) in the…
Gloria Nevarez took charge of the Mountain West on New Year’s Day and spent approximately six months formulating a strategic plan to power the conference into the next era of…
Stanford and Cal began playing college sports more than a century ago. For 99 percent of their athletic existence, membership in a conference based thousands of miles away was inconceivable….
It was the summer of devastation for the Pac-12, the summer the conference collapsed in ash and ruin. It was the summer of 1959. A pay-for-play scandal at four schools…
In the dead of summer, nuclear winter is coming for a handful of Pac-12 schools excluded from the vicious realignment game. USC, UCLA and Colorado have already given notice. Oregon…