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…
Jon Wilner
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…
The landscape of college sports changed forever on Friday Two weeks ago, at the Pac-12’s preseason media extravaganza in Las Vegas, commissioner George Kliavkoff offered a succinct, confident view of…
The morning after, devastation. “Gut-wrenching stuff,” one Pac-12 administrator noted. “So damn sad,” offered another. The 108-year-old conference, which produced sports luminaries ranging from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and John Elway to…
The Pac-12 Conference, home to hundreds of NCAA titles and dozens of iconic athletes and coaches, hurtled toward extinction on a momentous Friday as Oregon and Washington prepared to formally…
The Pac-12’s future remained in doubt Friday as the university presidents met remotely but were unable to agree on a media rights contract, extending an existential crisis that enveloped the…