Mar 9, 2022 In what is being billed as the first deal of its kind in the NCAA, the Mid-American Conference has signed a statistical data partnership and sponsorship agreement with Genius Sports, the league announced Wednesday. The five-year agreement gives Genius Sports the rights to manage and market the stats for all sports in
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Mar 8, 2022 Associated Press A survey of more than 20,000 Nebraska fans showed nearly three-fourths want or would have no problem with alcohol sales in Memorial Stadium, and more than half would be OK with sports wagering on-site. The athletic department in January sent surveys to more than 220,000 season-ticket holders, single-game ticket buyers
5:56 PM ET ESPN News Services NORMAN, Okla. — Oklahoma will dedicate a statue of 2017 Heisman Trophy winner Baker Mayfield on April 23 following its spring game, the university announced Monday. “I’m a Sooner for life and incredibly grateful for all of the success my teammates and I had at OU,” Mayfield said in
7:00 AM ET After false alarms at Michigan and Auburn, the 2021-22 college football coaching carousel has stopped spinning for good. The end to a wild cycle provides the opportunity to examine the coaching hires from the recent past. Borrowing an NFL idea from colleague Bill Barnwell, I will rank the top 10 college coaching
5:50 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Former Arizona State quarterback Jayden Daniels has committed to play at LSU, head coach Brian Kelly announced on Sunday. The decision delivers LSU one of the most accomplished quarterbacks to enter the NCAA transfer portal this offseason. Daniels threw for 6,025 yards and 32 touchdowns during his three seasons as
5:13 PM ET A proposed rule change would allow conferences to appeal targeting fouls that were called in the second half of games in order to avoid the carryover penalty of sitting out the first half of the next game, the NCAA Football Rules Committee said Friday. The committee, which began meeting Wednesday, also proposed
7:00 AM ET ESPN staff On Aug. 24, the commissioners of the ACC, Big Ten and Pac-12 held a joint video conference to announce the Alliance, a new partnership between three of the five most powerful conferences in college athletics. The launch generated immediate reaction — and memes from “The Office” — and set expectations
7:02 AM ET A Trump-era change to Title IX, implemented as part of a sweeping effort to strengthen due process, has made it too difficult to discipline college athletes accused of sexual misconduct, according to critics of the new rule. The U.S. Department of Education instituted a rule change in 2020 that prohibits schools from
3:00 PM ET Editor’s note: Richard Lapchick is a human rights activist, pioneer for racial equality, expert on sports issues, scholar and author. I became a college professor 52 years ago. One of the reasons I got my PhD and decided to teach was my belief that the ideals which I hold high, including social
6:50 AM ET Multiple Contributors The 2022 NFL combine has arrived, with the best prospects for the NFL draft in Indianapolis to go through athletic testing and on-field drills, meet with teams for in-depth interviews and get accurately measured in front of hundreds of league evaluators. It’s the most important event leading up to the