The money rolling in for college athletics just took another step upwards as the University of Michigan announced a new $169 million deal with sports apparel giant Nike. The new contract now stands as the richest sponsorship deal in all of college sports.
George Carlin’s classic critique of football and baseball strikes today as slightly yesterday. But his premise easily extrapolates to compare and contrast the good ol’ US of A and all our funny-sounding international neighbors, who seem to adore a kicky-kick sport (what we call “soccer”) managed by the honorable men of FIFA.
On Monday, May 11, the Texas state Senate advanced SB 2046, which would allow homeschoolers to participate in local public school University Interscholastic League (UIL) sports teams. The bill passed in a bipartisan vote of 26-5.
The nation’s most iconic baseball bat manufacturer has been sold to a Finland-based company for $70 million.
The Florida legislature had the opportunity this week to cut sports incentives from the yearly budget. The Legislative Budget Commission (LBC) decided to table the motion.
NASCAR fans are great patrons of museums. What could go wrong by combining the two?
Washington Capitals host the Chicago Blackhawks for the seventh Winter Classic.
The Chronicle of Higher Education has a sordid story tracing the decades-long grade fixing scandal that has engulfed college sports, revealing a scandal that reaches from the players and their representatives all the way to the teachers, coaches and college administrators.
Six-time NBA Most Valuable player, holder of six league championship rings and the greatest scorer in the history of the game, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, cited Ecclesiastes when contemplating the meaning of two executed police officers in New York City and the nationwide upheaval caused by the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner on the streets of the Big Apple.
Gus Andreone nailed his first hole-in-one before the U.S. entry into World War II, the availability of television, and the birth of Jack Nicklaus. He scored his most recent last week.
In his meeting with members of the Italian National Olympic Committee Friday, Pope Francis compared athletics to the spiritual life, saying that the Church’s role is to urge people toward “a strong sense of spiritual combativeness.” Francis went on to
After months of negotiating terms and conditions to build a new stadium, the St. Petersburg City Council said no to a proposed deal hammered out by Mayor Rick Kriseman and Tampa Bay Rays brass. According to the Tampa Bay Times,
