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…
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…
I put this on the site and TV back in 2016 Here we are now seeing Arizona and Arizona State going to the Big 12. What I didn’t think about…
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…
Dear Sun Devil Nation, Thank you for your patience and understanding during conference realignment discussions as I know there have been a lot of questions and uncertainty. Arizona State will…
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…
