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LSU sweeps CWS finals for 2nd national title in 3 years
OMAHA, Neb. — LSU knocked previously unbeaten Coastal Carolina ace Jacob Morrison out of the game with a four-run fourth inning, and the Tigers won their second national championship in three years Sunday with a 5-3 victory in the College World Series finals. The Tigers (53-15) completed a two-game sweep...
LSU goes for 2nd title in 3 years, opens CWS finals vs. streaking Coastal Carolina
OMAHA, Neb. — LSU and Coastal Carolina have met only two times previously as they enter the College World Series finals Saturday night. Those games back in 2016 have not been forgotten. Coastal Carolina swept the Tigers on their home field in super regionals on the way to their first...
Louisiana is poised to hike its sports betting tax to help colleges pay their athletes
Louisiana is poised to hike taxes on sports betting to pump more than $24 million into athletic departments at the state’s most prominent public universities. Legislation pending before Gov. Jeff Landry would make Louisiana the first state to raise taxes to fund college sports since a judge approved a landmark...
Arkansas’ Gage Wood pitches 3rd no-hitter in CWS history, strikes out 19 against Murray State 
OMAHA, Neb. — Arkansas’ Gage Wood pitched the third no-hitter in College World Series history and first in 65 years on Monday, striking out a record 19 and never letting Murray State come close to getting a hit in the Razorbacks’ 3-0 victory. Wood joined Jim Ehrler of Texas in...
Wide range of conferences represented at College World Series 
OMAHA, Neb. — Six conferences and an independent will be represented at the College World Series, and none of the teams were among the final eight in Omaha a year ago. In 2024, the SEC and ACC had four teams apiece in the CWS, and all the talk was that...
Pitt's Jeff Capel to work with USA Basketball to pick team for U19 world cup
Pitt basketball coach Jeff Capel will serve on the USA Basketball Junior National Team Committee. Capel will help select participants who have concluded their freshman year of college or represent the high school classes of 2025 and 2026 to be on the U19 team. Training camp for the 33 athletes...
Tar Heels players embrace new world as part of coach Bill Belichick's 1st college team
Jordan Shipp remembers the conversation with his roommates after learning Bill Belichick was North Carolina’s new coach. “It was just like, ‘That’s the greatest coach of all time,’” the receiver recalled, “‘and he’s about to be coaching us.’” Belichick’s arrival has triggered plenty of change for the Tar Heels, who...
Lee Corso's final 'College GameDay' show will be Aug. 30 at Ohio State
Lee Corso’s final headgear pick on “College GameDay” will be on the campus where it all started. ESPN’s iconic show will begin its 39th season at Ohio State before the defending national champion Buckeyes host the Texas Longhorns on Aug. 30. Corso, who turns 90 in August, announced earlier this...
College World Series will feature some Pac-12 nostalgia. 'This is for the West,' UCLA coach says
OMAHA, Neb. — The ghosts of the old Pac-12 will be lurking at Charles Schwab Field this weekend when the College World Series opens. Oregon State, UCLA and Arizona will be back in Omaha, where they combined for eight of the 29 national baseball championships won by the conference its...
Athletes express concern over NCAA settlement's impact on non-revenue sports
Sydney Moore and Sabrina Ootsburg were surrounded by hundreds of college athletes at AthleteCon when news broke that the $2.8 billion NCAA settlement had been approved by a federal judge. In a room full of college athletes, they felt like the only two people who understood the gravity of the...
A $2.8 billion settlement will change college sports forever. Here’s how
A federal judge has approved terms of a sprawling $2.8 billion antitrust settlement that will upend the way college sports have been run for more than a century. In short, schools can now directly pay players through licensing deals — a concept that goes against the foundation of amateurism that...
Texas beats Texas Tech in decisive 3rd game to win 1st Women’s College World Series title 
OKLAHOMA CITY — Mia Scott hit a grand slam, Teagan Kavan claimed another win and Texas defeated Texas Tech, 10-4, in Game 3 of the Women’s College World Series championship series on Friday night to win its first national title. Kavan, a sophomore, allowed no earned runs in all 31...
Federal judge approves $2.8B settlement, paving way for colleges to pay athletes millions
A federal judge signed off on arguably the biggest change in the history of college sports on Friday, clearing the way for schools to begin paying their athletes millions of dollars as soon as next month as the multibillion-dollar industry shreds the last vestiges of the amateur model that defined...
Batter up! Things to know as NCAA baseball tournament enters super regionals
Super regionals are the next stop on the NCAA baseball tournament’s Road to Omaha. Four of the best-of-three series are Friday through Sunday: Miami (34-25) at Louisville (38-21); No. 9 national seed Florida State (41-14) at No. 8 Oregon State (45-13-1); Arizona (42-18) at No. 5 North Carolina (45-13); and...
Wake Forest baseball coach apologizes for apparent homophobic slur at NCAA regional vs. Tennessee
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Wake Forest and baseball coach Tom Walter apologized on Tuesday for what appeared to be a homophobic slur caught by television cameras during an NCAA regional game against Tennessee. “I am very sorry for my outburst in frustration last night and I recognize the hurt and disappointment...
Coastal Carolina coach rips Florida's Kevin O'Sullivan for expletive-filled tirade and calls him a 'bully' 
First-year Coastal Carolina baseball coach Kevin Schnall called Florida coach Kevin O’Sullivan a bully and disrespectful for his expletive-filled rant directed at site administrators before an elimination game at the NCAA Conway Regional. O’Sullivan was upset about the start time of his team’s Sunday elimination game against East Carolina being...
Aaron Donald, 'Ironhead' Heyward top list of NFF College Hall of Fame nominees
Penn Hills native Aaron Donald and late star running back Craig “Ironhead” Heyward of Pitt headline more than a dozen former college football players with Western Pennsylvania ties who received nominations for the National Football Foundation College Football Hall of Fame. The NFF Honors Court will consider 79 players and...
Freeport grad Heilman helps Wright State baseball win Horizon League, make NCAA Tournament run 
Baseball, like any other sport, has its share of peaks and valleys. Few know that better than Freeport grad Jarrett Heilman. In 2023, while he was pitching at Mercyhurst, Heilman was named PSAC West Pitcher of the Year after going 6-2 with a 1.38 ERA, the third lowest in Division...
SEC amps up fines to $500,000 for rushing field, storming court
MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. — The Southeastern Conference is ratcheting up penalties on schools whose fans storm the field or rush the court, doing away with an escalating fine system and now charging $500,000 per incident. “The motivation was ‘field rushing is field rushing, the first time or the 18th time,’”...
Pa. Congressman issues warning to Big Ten, SEC about future of college football
The Big Ten and SEC are leading the way as the two conferences look to make changes to college football and the College Football Playoff. The leagues are reportedly interested in a scheduling partnership down the line, and they are also considering pushing for a new 16-team CFP model that...
Oklahoma eyes 5th straight national title at Women’s College World Series
OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma could extend its record run of consecutive national titles to five at this year’s Women’s College World Series. Patty Gasso’s second-seeded Sooners will face No. 7 seed Tennessee in their WCWS opener. Oklahoma beat Alabama on Saturday to win the Norman Super Regional. Action in the...
Jackson Van De Brake drives in 5 runs as North Carolina routs Clemson for ACC championship 
DURHAM, N.C. — Jackson Van De Brake drove in five runs, including a three-run home run in an eight-run fifth inning, highlighting North Carolina’s 14-4 victory over Clemson on Sunday in the championship game of the ACC Baseball Tournament. Hunter Stokely and Tyson Bass both hit two-run home runs with...
Florida coach Todd Golden reaps rewards of national title, including reloading his roster 
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — It would be tough to top the month Florida coach Todd Golden has enjoyed since winning the national championship. Golden and the Gators visited the White House on Wednesday, a trip that included an invitation to the Oval Office. He landed one of the top guards in...
College Football Playoff shifts to straight seeding model, no automatic byes for top league champs 
The College Football Playoff will go to a more straightforward way of filling the bracket next season, placing teams strictly on where they are ranked instead of moving pieces around to reward conference champions. Ten conference commissioners and Notre Dame’s athletic director came to the unanimous agreement they needed Thursday...
Power leagues look to bind schools to rules of $2.8B NCAA settlement, AP source says 
The four biggest conferences in college sports are working to tie their schools to the pending $2.8 billion NCAA antitrust settlement and could have drastic penalties for anyone refusing to comply. Officials from the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12 and SEC have drafted a document intended to prevent their members...


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