Trying to find the proper word to describe the Steelers' decision to sign Aaron Rodgers involves a dictionary or thesaurus. By the end of the season, it might just require four letters.
Mike DeCourcy
NCAA president Charlie Baker said the NCAA Tournament should expand beyond its current 68-team field because some of the "best" teams are being left out. That's unsupportable by the facts.
Christian Pulisic will miss the CONCACAF Gold Cup, which is the last competitive event the USMNT will play before next summer's World Cup. But with so many other regulars out, wearing out Pulisic wasn't worth it.
Italian phenom Dame Sarr committed to Duke this week and will be slotted to fill the role played by future first-rounder Kon Knueppel.
USMNT coach Mauricio Pochettino is using the CONCACAF Gold Cup this summer to build depth and send a message to his underperforming players.
The NBA of Magic and Bird, of MJ and Pip, of Kobe and Shaq -- those days appear to be gone, replaced by a more competitive group of teams that don't depend on a few superstars.
Denver's Aaron Gordon has been on a mission to improve as a player since long before he was getting paid millions to play. His hunger to win has defined him as an NBA player.
After a decade in the CBS Sports Classic, UCLA is withdrawing to focus on improving its home schedule and try to decrease travel demands.
The NBA released a list of early entry prospects for the 2025 draft that is basically one-third as long as it was just a few years back. Payments to college athletes means more of them are sticking around longer -- and keeping the game stronger.
When Paris Saint-Germain stopped trying to buy their way to the Champions League title and instead started trying to win their way, they became a legit contender. The first step was returning Ousmane Dembele to France for a bargain fee.
NFL prospect Shedeur Sanders got his wish to be drafted, but entering the latest Browns quarterback mess is a good deal less than he might have bargained for when this all began.
There's never been a draft prospect like Shedeur Sanders, rated so prominently by analysts and ignored through three rounds by NFL teams. That'll likely change on the draft's final day, but things won't ever be the same for him.
Shedeur Sanders spent hours Friday evening waiting for a call that never came. The NFL Draft can be as cruel as it is rewarding.
In advance of the draft, league personnel often are granted anonymity to say terrible things about prospect -- and their comments might be strategic.
There's every reason to believe Nico Iamaleava's decision to quit on Tennessee in the search of an extra million or two -- putting his development toward an NFL career at risk -- will not become a contagion for other college athletes.
Can Sean Miller get Texas over the mountain after other good coaches have failed?
The transfer portal is open and the NBA Draft process is in its formative stages. Does that mean it's too early for a Top 25 projection for the 2025-26 season? Never.
Walter Clayton Jr. has been delivering down the stretch for the Gators in the NCAA Tournament. Against Houston, the championship-winning play came on defense.
L.J. Cryer watched most of the 2021 Final Four as his Baylor teammates ran the Houston Cougars and Gonzaga Bulldogs out of the gym and won the NCAA Championship. Now, he's playing for a second ring, but it's a totally new experience.
Houston was eliminated from the 2024 NCAA Tournament by Duke after missing nearly half their foul shots. The Cougars and veteran J'Wan Roberts were not going to make the same mistake this time.
Walter Clayton pulled off a feat last accomplished by Larry Bird, and because of it, Florida will play for the national title on Monday night.
Houston's Kelvin Sampson has a lot of the qualifications for inclusion in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He could get one more big one here at the Alamodome this weekend.
So many in college basketball talk about the importance of the transfer portal in building successful teams. But this year's Final Four -- like last year's, and the one before that --shows again that "homegrown" teams win the biggest.
On the 50th anniversary of his final game as UCLA head coach -- and the last of the 10 NCAA titles he won -- we examine John Wooden's influence in basketball and beyond.
Senior writer Mike DeCourcy's story about Duke's national title in 2010 included one mention of the man who'll lead the Blue Devils into the 2025 Final Four in San Antonio: "With Jon Scheyer's career finished, he'll be replaced by incoming freshman Kyrie Irving …"
TSN Archives
Who's going to win the gathering of Goliaths that'll arrive in San Antonio later this week? That's what we're hear to tell you, and Duke is a good place to start
Whether the game is in a football dome or somebody's backyard, if the 2025 Houston Cougars are involved, the opposition is going to wonder if playing basketball is the best way to spend its time.
In Alabama's regional semifinal win over BYU, the Tide made a record 25 3-pointers. Against No. 1 seed Duke, they made eight. That made the difference in the victory that sent Duke to San Antonio and the 2025 Final Four.
For only the third time in their history, the Tennessee Volunteers are one game removed from the NCAA Final Four.
Mark Pope is busy preparing the Kentucky Wildcats for a Sweet 16 matchup against rival Tennessee - while he's also busy working to find the next group of Wildcats in the transfer portal. That's college coaching today.
Duke's Cooper Flagg showed again what an extraordinary talent he is. But now he's got almost an entire league -- the best league, the SEC -- standing between him and the NCAA Championship.
In 2003, Carmelo Anthony was a versatile forward for the Syracuse Orangemen who redefined what was possible for freshmen in college basketball. Duke's Cooper Flagg is looking to follow his flight path to the 2025 NCAA Championship.
The SEC gobbled but seven of the Sweet 16 spots in this year's tournament.
Florida All-American Walter Clayton had a rough first half, but down the stretch he was clutch and landed the Gators in the Sweet 16.
In a physical, old school basketball game, it was Calipari's Razorbacks who proved too much for Pitino's Red Storm and landed in the Sweet 16.
In Connecticut basketball's four decades of dominance, one thing that's rarely been required is an NCAA Tournament upset. To continue toward a third straight title, though, they'll need to take down heavily favored Florida.
Cooper Flagg said there was never any doubt he was playing in Round 1, and he contributed to the expected blowout of Mount St. Mary's.
Rick Pitino and John Calipari have had an amazing rivalry through the years, and they will renew acquaintances when Pitino's second-seeded St. John's Red Storm faces Calipari's Arkansas Razorbacks in the second round.
Will Wade knows how to coach the five players on the floor. So why does he have so much difficulty with the rest of the job?
Almost every NCAA title team has had an NBA first-rounder and a top 20 offense and defense. Duke fits that mold.
Indiana football was among the best teams in the country immediately after hiring a new coach. The basketball program will try to follow suit.
Duke and Florida look like they have the goods to cut down the nets in San Antonio.
Auburn and Michigan State may slug it out in Atlanta for a trip to San Antonio. And how, exactly, did North Carolina get a bid?
Duke is the team to beat, but there are some veteran mid-major coaches plus a dangerous No. 6 seed in BYU itching to get a crack at the Blue Devils.
Two East Coast teams could be battling for a spot in the Final Four in the West Region final in San Francisco.
Whoever emerges from Indianapolis and heads to the Final Four will be featuring a strong defense.
Josh Pastner was let go by Georgia Tech after the 2023 season and has thrived as a TV basketball analyst.
Cooper Flagg left on a wheelchair after an ankle injury, but it appears his season is not lost.
When Kelvin Sampson was offered the Houston head coaching job, he was in no position to be picky if he wanted to run his own program again. You'd never recognize the place now.
Cooper Flagg of Duke and Johni Broome of Auburn lead the 2024-25 All-America team for The Sporting News. Who joins them in being honored?
North Carolina will be fighting for its tournament life against No. 2 Duke, but there are several games to keep an eye on as the men's regular season comes to a close.
The SEC will break all sorts of NCAA Tournament records on Selection Sunday. What it wants now is to finish it with a title.
There's not more money in it. Fans don't want it. The product as it is remains wildly popular. So why would anyone want to mess with expanding the NCAA Tournament?
No. 1 seeds have far outperformed No. 2s historically, which makes the race for the top line that much more compelling this season.
Teams are putting the finishing touches on their March Madness resumes, and this weekend will go a long way toward shaping the field on Selection Sunday.
When a team is winning by double-digit margins as routinely as Duke, the players might forget what it's like to be involved in the kind of basket-for-basket battle that comes up in the NCAA Tournament.
Steve Masiello is associate head coach at St. John's, so maybe he's a little biased, but he'll eagerly make the case that his boss, Rick Pitino, is the best there ever was in this game.
The NBA All-Star Game needs help. That's why we're here.
If Auburn is going to win the NCAA championship, they're going to do it at least a little differently than most teams that achieved this goal. Or maybe even a lot differently.
Jalen Hurts is a very good NFL quarterback. But there are elements of his game that suggest he does not rank with the very best at his position. If he's in charge of the very best team, though, does that matter -- and what does that say to the rest of the league?
Nick Siranni has gone from the colloquial coaching "hot seat" to the sideine of his second Super Bowl in three years. That doesn't happen often. But when it does, it tends to work out well.
The Hoosiers about to launch what amounts to a sixth search for a men’s basketball head coach in the past 25 years.
The Chiefs are establishing a new standard for NFL dynasties in the 21st century. But what if we take it back a ways, to around the time the Super Bowl era began. How would they rate against the greatest championship runs in the league's history?
Rick Pitino is asking Kentucky fans to be respectful, Matt Laurance is expecting they will be, and John Calipari isn't sure what will hapopen. Coach Cal's return to Lexington as Arkansas coach should be something to watch this college basketball weekend.
With North Carolina falling to 13-9 with a mid-week loss at Pitt, it could be argued there's no worse time for the Tar Heels to be facing the sizzling Duke Blue Devils. On the road. But perhaps America's best sporting rivalry can energize the Heels.
The University of Florida student publication the Alligator reported details of a Title IX complaint filed in September against third-year head coach Todd Golden, who led the team to the NCAA Tournament in 2023-24.
The Chiefs are on the verge of establishing a new standard for NFL dynasties — and redefining what the word "dominant" can mean in sports.
If you've spent the nights when the College Football Playoff was not in action breaking down game film, you've missed a pretty cool start to the 2024-25 college basketball season. We're here to catch you up.
There's no Zach Edey in college hoops this year, but there are some pretty big guys who are pretty big deals.
One more win will make Marcus Freeman the first Black head coach to win a national championship in his sport.
The Steelers of the 1970s won four Super Bowls in six years, a record unmatched by any team in NFL history. This year's Chiefs can match that achievement -- and set a standard no one in the league has even approached.
George Pickens could be a $100 million receiver in the NFL. Does he want that?
It’s a little like March Madness with helmets. The winners move on. The losers go home.
The Eagles are making the proper decision in resting star back Saquon Barkley for a meaningless final regular season game -- no matter what record might be at stake.
Penn State coach James Franklin thinks his sport needs a commissioner. It doesn't.
You didn't need 20/20 vision to see that Shohei Ohtani crossed the threshold from baseball superstar to sporting icon with his 50/50 season and World Series title with the Dodgers. That made him SN's Male Athlete of the Year.
If the CFP had been seeded by achievement, rather than granting preferential treatment to the highest-ranked conference champions, the first-round games might have featured more drama, less comedy.
Indiana, statistically and historically, was the worst power conference football program when Curt Cignetti arrived to coach the Hoosiers last December. They were among the best 12 games later, and there was no one better equipped to talk about it.
There's no real way to fix the calendar that essentially mandated Beau Pribula leave Penn State before the College Football Playoff begins. But people will complain about it, anyway.
North Carolina hiring Bill Belichick as football coach seems a desperate reach for an aging, fading Hall of Famer
It would seem obvious that upgrading a team's talent leads to greater success, but it hasn't always been that way with one-and-done, 5-star freshmen like Anthony Edwards, Shabazz Muhammad and Tristan Thompson.
There's a movement around college football to eliminate conference championship games. But in the P4 leagues, the two-team final is the only way to establish a legitimate champ.
ACC principals have complained -- loudly -- about receiving only five NCAA Tournament bids in each of the past three seasons. With the way they've performed in non-league games in 2024-25, getting five teams in the field might be an achievement.
The College Football Playoff committee has a difficult job selecting and seeding teams when there's so little direct competition among the contenders.
Trying to find the stat that defines Duke freshman star Cooper Flagg can be as challenging as trying to stop him from accumulating huge numbers in most every positive category.
In the college football rivalry games that ended in a rash of performative flag-plantings, there were no winners. Only losers, and losers that scored more points.
Kansas will not be returning to the Final Four, as planned, if its best player won't realize battling every opponent over every perceived slight is a losing strategy.
Promises that the arrival of the 12-team College Football Playoff would make the 2024 season more involving and compelling than any year, ever, turned out to undersell the magnificence of what we're seeing.
Indiana QB Kurtis Rourke doesn't say much to the press. Instead, he's let his play do the talking ahead of a historic showdown vs. Ohio State on Saturday.
Indiana has less historic success in football than almost any power conference team. Except in 2024, with the Hoosiers undefeated through 10 games. The field of the College Football Playoff should be decided on current excellence, not historic success.
The Pittsburgh Steelers are one of the few NFL teams to have regular success against Ravens superstar Lamar Jackson. How have they done it?
The College Football Playoff committee's process for selecting and seeding teams too secret, and the inconsistencies of its weekly bracket presentation leave everyone involved wondering what matters.
When longtime Kentucky coach John Calipari left for Arkansas, replacement Mark Pope had only one way to build a roster: the transfer portal. Tuesday's win over Duke showed he made all the right choices.
The group of basketball players who project at the start of the 2024-25 season as the next batch of The Sporting News All-Americans are a lot more experienced than is usually the case. (Except for Duke's Cooper Flagg, of course).
Florida's administration could have waited through a brutal season-ending stretch of games to establish grounds to move on from coach Billy Napier. Instead, they saw progress and promise and chose to embrace the possibility of a brighter future.
Expected to be the No. 1 pick in the next NBA Draft, Cooper Flagg has hype like Zion Williamson, a game like Brandon Ingram and competitiveness like Kevin Garnett.
Alabama rode the transfer portal to the Crimson Tide's first-ever Final Four in 2023-24. They're loaded enough to travel two steps farther by April in San Antonio.
Shohei Ohtani was voted MLB's Player of the Year by his peers -- and it wasn't a 50/50 decision.
If we're going to talk about how the changes in college athletics are chasing out coaches like Tony Bennett, we also must discuss that changes that made him exceptionally wealthy make it that much easier to walk away.
The USMNT did not play a beautiful game in their first game under new head coach Mauricio Pochettino, but they got the result they wanted and a clear first step in the direction of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
The ACC has talked a lot about its diminished number of NCAA Tournament bids being a problem of public relations -- not enough people talking about how great the league is. But you've got to win games for those stories to be told.
At their summit this week in Nashville, the Big Ten and SEC are discussing lots about the future of college football. One significant item is the assurance that each league will receive four spots in the College Football Playoff. That would hurt the CFP as a competition, and they don't need them, anyway.
Robert Saleh was reminded Tuesday that head coaches are far more expendable in the NFL than quarterbacks -- especially those QBs who are extravagantly paid.
As Tom Izzo enters his 30th season as Michigan State head coach and approaches his 70th birthday, he has reaffirmed his commitment to be tough and demanding with his players — but available enough so they understand his methods.
Caitlin Clark made Big Ten women's basketball must-see TV for years at Iowa. Now it is up to USC's JuJu Watkins to keep fans coming to arenas and turning on their televisions.
Gonzaga's entry into the Pac-12 can't turn a group of solidly competitive programs (plus powerful San Diego State) into a national basketball force.
Gonzaga has earned a record-tying nine consecutive trips to the Sweet 16. It doesn't need the Pac-12.
ESPN's doubleheaders are one more dent in the treasured Monday Night Football brand.
The fact anyone cared that UNLV's quarterback left his team after a 3-0 start showed college football is doing as well as ever. Maybe better.
Steelers coach Mike Tomlin sees no need to make a final public declaration about his quarterback position when one of the two candidates for the position isn't healthy enough to compete.
Big Ten expansion is pairing up bluebloods USC and Michigan on a regular basis, and the sport will benefit.
Fans of USMNT now have the coach they want. Expectations will be squarely on the players' shoulders now.
New USMNT coach Mauricio Pochettino met the American soccer media Friday in New York. He showed off a joyful optimism that suggests he believes this team can do well at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Luke Fickell is only starting his second season with Wisconsin. So is it fair to say Saturday's home showdown with No. 4 Alabama could be a defining game for his time with the Badgers?
When they traded for Deshaun Watson, the Browns knew he faced the possibility of a long suspension from the NFL and had already missed an entire season. They spent a truckload of assets and cash on him, anyway. They might have done better if they'd bet it all on a roulette wheel.
Deion Sanders has invited public scrutiny for nearly 40 years -- as an NFL cornerback, a Major League Baseball outfielder and most recently as a college football coach. It's surprising he doesn't know how to deal with the attention when it turns negative.
That Florida State would disregard its ACC history and its own prior decisions and launch a costly campaign to escape a conference it is currently 0-2 in to start 2024 has helped make it a punchline.
For as long as college football has been determining national champions, the winner has been determined largely -- or exclusively -- by a vote. That's not how sport decides who's best. That's how it works at the Academy Awards.
Reports indicate soon-to-be-appointed United States men's national team coach Mauricio Pochettino will want to live in Europe while he's in charge. He can do the job from there.
Among many who follow the United States men's national team, all they wanted was a coach who had a big name. (And preferably, not an American name.) They got way more than they wished in Mauricio Pochettino.
There may be an obvious choice at the bottom of the list, but which of America's NBA-based Olympic basketball teams was the best?
We've been subjected to the simplistic "medal count" statistic during the Olympic Games for more than 50 years, and it's been bad math from the start. The International Olympic Committee does not award one gold for basketball. There are 12. It should be counted like that.
The Sporting News presents our list of the winners and losers of Paris 2024 -- and not just what you might get from reading a list of Olympic medalists.
This was Steph’s moment. His golden moment.
The United States hasn’t been all that terribly far ahead of its competition since at least the turn of the century, and the only difference now is the competition has multiplied.
Kevin Durant never has made All-Defense in two decades of NBA stardom, but it was a big dose of D that KD provided as United States secured a spot in the Olympic men's basketball gold medal game.
The USA Basketball men advanced to the medal round of the Olympics, again, conquering Brazil as expected with some of the best team offense they've played at the Games.
The USWNT is onto the gold medal game at Paris 2024 after Sophia Smith's big goal and Alyssa Naeher's superb save helped rescue the team against Germany's NFL-style defense.
The mess with the International Boxing Association's campaign against Olympic fighters Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting is not helping the endangered status of the sport's future in the Summer Games.
Three of the United States' biggest stars at Paris 2024 -- Simone Biles, Katie Ledecky and Ryan Crouser -- performed so well they will change The Sporting News list of Greatest U.S. Summer Olympians.
Sha'Carri Richardson waited three years to erase the biggest mistake of her career. She made another one, though -- not as profound or punishing, but one that will haunt her just as long.
The USWNT had a challenging time breaking down an entrenched Japan defense in Olympic soccer quarterfinals. But Crystal Dunn, after spending her afternoon breaking up a series of Japan counterattacks, also delivered an assist on the game-winning goal.
Imane Khelif, by all accounts, was raised a girl in a religiously strict country that prohibits gender transitioning. She is listed as female on her Algeria passport. So how did her participation in the Olympic boxing competition become the subject of so much public outrage?
Simone Biles' stutter on the uneven bars injected some genuine suspense into the Olympic gymnastics all-around competition. That just made her victory that much more impactful.
The USA Basketball senior men's team made some significant adjustments to their lineup and rotation in a pool play game at the Paris Olympics. Most of them seemed to pay dividends.
This is not only Emma Hayes' first major tournament as USWNT head coach -- it's her first major international tournament, period. And though her team went 3-0 in group play, she still was guilty of a signficant error in the 2-1 win over Australia.
There still are some who call Simone Biles a "quitter" because of the condition that caused her to withdraw from the team competition at the Tokyo Olympics. The gold medal she helped the USA earn Tuesday was not for quitting.
An exhibition tour in the United States is giving new Liverpool coach Arne Slot a chance to show what the team might look like with Jurgen Klopp gone.
After the disappointment of missing out on the introduction of the men's 3x3 competition at Tokyo 2020, USA Basketball brought in Fran Fraschilla to better organize the qualifying efforts. He got Jimmer Fredette on board, and the U.S. will be in Paris.
Kevin Durant shined, and Jayson Tatum reclined -- a lot happened in the opening game for USA Basketball's senior men's national team at Paris 2024.
From a Duke-bound teenager to a retirement-bound Brazilian point god -- someday, we think -- these are the best men's basketball players at every single age who will compete at the Paris Olympics.
Where would the Olympic men's basketball competition be without the NCAA? It'd be half-empty. That's how many players American colleges have produced across 10 of the 12 nations that will compete in Paris.
The USWNT scored all their goals against Zambia in a short burst. There's still so much room to grow.
Simone Biles will return for her third Olympic Games at Paris 2024, and erasing the disappointment from Tokyo is only part of why she's returned at age 27.
The United States women's national team produced just one goal in their final two exhibition games prior to departing for France and the 2024 Olympics. New coach Emma Hayes is more focused on assuring her players build chemistry.
There could be no better choice to carry the American flag at the 2024 Paris Olympics than LeBron James, whose dedication to his sport and community activism have set an ideal example for fellow athletes.
Philly's Joel Embiid is one of only two true centers USA Basketball chose to include on its roster for the Paris Olympics, which means right now, the U.S. has one functional center. Embiid needs to get it together. Soon.
CONMEBOL, South America's governing body for soccer, wanted to be in charge of Copa America 2024 so it could get all the money that would be generated. With that earning potential comes responsibility, which they mostly shirked.
USA vs. Canada suggested the Americans' decision to take an older squad to Paris might have created some functional problems with the lineup.
The next U.S. men's national team coach must be someone who owes none of the current players anything. They need a leader who's firmly in charge, a designation Gregg Berhalter lost after the Gio Reyna debacle of 2022.
Lionel Messi again used the stage of Met Life Stadium to suggest he might be done with playing international soccer after Argentina appears in Sunday's Copa America final.
FIFA rules for the men's and women's soccer tournaments are not the same -- at all -- which is why you'll find Lindsey Horan in Paris, but not Kylian Mbappe.
Diego Luna of Real Salt Lake ranks third in Major League Soccer in assists, but that wasn't enough to earn him a spot on the U.S. men's soccer roster for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
USA Basketball has won each of the past four Olympic men's basketball competitions, and 84 percent of those it has entered. Perfection is not an easy standard to meet, but Americans like Tyrese Haliburton aren't ducking it.
England fans who are worried about their team's lousy performances through four games of Euro 2024 have a right to be. But the recent history of major championships indicates even teams that are playing terribly can still win it all — so long as they stay in the tournament.
U.S. Soccer sporting director Matt Crocker will have a difficult time defending Gregg Berhalter as USMNT coach after the team busted out of Copa America following two defeats in three games.
The referee assigned to the United States-Panama group game in Copa America did a dreadful job that played a huge part in the Americans' disappointing 2-1 defeat.
The underwhelming French prospects at the top of the draft. The lean talent available from US colleges. Sometimes it's obvious before anyone plays a game that a particular NBA Draft won't do much to make the league better.
England could not have played much worse, but their luck could not have been better. The curious results in other groups at Euro 2024 left the bottom half of the knockout-round bracket short on elite national teams.
The United States women's national team will field one of its youngest rosters ever for the 2024 Olympic Games with new coach Emma Hayes making some tough decisions about veteran players.
The top-end talent is missing from this year's college crop, but some players will emerge as good NBA players. It is up to the teams to find them.
A goal and an assist in a 2-0 Copa America victory over Bolivia offered two more pieces of evidence of why Christian Pulisic has surpassed Landon Donovan as the USMNT's greatest player.
There may have been no event that transformed the American sports scene to the same degree as the 1994 World Cup, which brought the world's most popular sport to the U.S. and showed everyone what they'd been missing.
Jayson Tatum has built himself into one of the NBA's best players even though he does not rank among the league's most dynamic athletes or accurate shooters. That hasn't been enough for his many critics, but what will they say when the championship arrives?
The anti-Berhalter sect of U.S. men's national team fans spent the time in between games against Colombia and Brazil concocting unflattering stats about the team's coach. He and the players spent that time putting together a game plan that produced a historic result.
Dan Hurley will return as UConn men's basketball coach in 2024-25 rather than accepting a lucrative offer to coach the LA Lakers. It's a huge win for blossoming star forward Alex Karaban.
The suggestions that Dan Hurley leaving UConn for the Los Angeles Lakers would reflect calamity in college athletics are entirely over the top.
UConn may need to find a coach after 68 other Division 1 openings have already been filled. Where will it turn?
The NBA has come calling for elite college coaches in the past: Mike Krzyzewski, Tom Izzo, John Calipari seemingly twice a year. But Dan Hurley's decision about the Lakers' offer will be different than any they faced.
Grant Wahl was a courageous journalist, a pioneer in covering soccer in American and one of the key figures in the sport's American growth story. With the publication of "World Class", a collection of his finest work, his colleagues in the media offered their appreciation of what he meant to the sport and their business.
It isn't all that surprising some of Caitlin Clark's WNBA competitors are taking shots at her on the floor, but the apathy of game officials and the league's own mishandling of her arrival have added to the problem.
This problem belongs to all of Division I. It was created by all of Division I, prolonged by Division I and, as you can see from the current absence of cogent policies on transfers and NIL, never truly resolved by Division I.
After one of the most open and soapy sports dramas in recent years, young American Gio Reyna and the United States men's national team have discovered they really, really need one another.
Sunday at Anfield, Jurgen Klopp will coach his final game at Liverpool FC. It will not be easy for Reds fans to watch him go.
Harrison Butker made assertions that were offensive to a broad swath of the NFL's public when in presenting a commencement speech at Benedictine College in Kansas. The league's two-sentence statement isn't enough of a response.
NFL teams don't need an 18th game, and their franchises don't need the income such an expansion of inventory would deliver from broadcasters. But sometimes businesspeople can't help themselves.
It used to be that gaining the No. 1 overall pick in the NBA Draft offered teams the opportunity to select team-changing players like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson and Tim Duncan. Being first in line too often doesn't mean what it used to.
When Georgia saw fit to give Kirby Smart a significant raise from $11 million a year, it was another signal that the complaints about the state of college athletics were hollow and misguided.
There is plenty of speculation regarding which team, including the Lakers, might be willing to spend a 2024 draft pick on young Bronny James to lure LeBron James onto its roster. It's a terrible idea for all involved.
If the playoff loss to the Nuggets was the last we see of LeBron James in an NBA uniform, he'll have shown us as much as anyone ever to play in the league.
The rookie salary scale is the most odious off-the-field innovation in American sport, a contraption devised by gutless, guileless team owners and embraced by players associations content to essentially haze those pledges entering the fraternities and sororities of professional athletes.
When Kentucky hired Mark Pope, the last of the major head coaching vacancies in college basketball was filled. You know what that means: time to judge the hires before anyone has worked a game.
What is the value of "blueblood" status in an NCAA basketball environment increasingly dictated by Name/Image/Likeness payments? It's not nothing, but whether it dictates excellence remains to be seen.
John Calipari's sudden departure for Arkansas leaves Kentucky in a coaching search lurch at a time when the administration would prefer to be planning for the 2024-25 season.
You do not win one of these titles without being an extraordinary coach. You don’t win two of them without being elite. And you don’t win them consecutively unless you rank among the very best.
If UConn wins by a margin of just three points in the NCAA Championship game against Purdue, it will have constructed the most dominant run in the NCAA Tournament’s expanded bracket era.
UConn's Dan Hurley could make NCAA Tournament coaching history Monday night, and the people who hired him to run the Huskies pretty much knew this was possible.
After 15 seasons, four Final Fours and one NCAA championship, the John Calipari era at Kentucky appears to be over. And not because Kentucky says so.
When Loyer opened February with a slump, there was reason to wonder if Purdue might meet a similar end in the NCAA Tournament. Instead, the Boilermakers will play for the championship.
Let’s simply appreciate what we’ve been granted, how rare and extraordinary it is to be anticipating this game Monday night for the NCAA Championship.
Of the many astonishing elements of Zach Edey's season, there may be nothing more so than this: He rarely leaves the game.
Zach Edey's two-year run and four-year career at Purdue have him among the best of all-time when it comes to college players.
The first black coach to win an NCAA title carried a heavy influence in a time of change.
Do officials call too many fouls against defenders playing Purdue's Zach Edey? Is it possible they don't call enough? Those are some of the defining questions for the 2024 Final Four.
College basketball stars from Mo Alie-Cox to Antonio Gates wound up in the NFL rather than the NBA, but don't expect NC State star DJ Burns to join their ranks in the future.
Theoretically, each of the four teams remaining in March Madness can win the NCAA Championship. All they need to do is win two more games. It's a lot tougher than that, which is why we rank the teams in the order we have.
Purdue All-American Zach Edey came up with -- of course -- a big way to celebrate the occasion of the Boilermakers at last reaching the NCAA Final Four after 44 years of heartbreak.
Center Donovan Clingan dominated the NCAA East Region final in the way UConn in general has dominated the 2024 NCAA Tournament. They now are two wins away from becoming a rare March Madness repeat champion.
Zach Edey's scoring run through three rounds of the 2024 edition of March Madness recalls when Purdue star Glenn Robinson carried the Boilers to the 1994 Elite Eight
Purdue has been one of the best teams in this season, and in this tournament. But this fan base has endured some cruel endings prior to the Final Four.
