Images from a Meet and Greet with Iowa Men's Basketball player Owen Freeman on Friday, May 31, 2024, at Pancheros in Moline.
AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. — In each of the past three years, the ACC’s annual spring meetings ended with familiar refrains and messaging — of hope; of strength; of maintaining its place in the hierarchy of college athletics — only for massive change to imperil the conference in the months to follo…
Big Ten Freshman Player of the Year and Moline state champion Owen Freeman comes back to the Quad Cities, in an appearance at a local Moline restaurant
The Big 12 will distribute $470 million in revenue, a record amount, the league announced on Friday. Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark said the league’s 10 original members will see “some dilution” from their shares as the conference phased in newcomers Houston, Cincinnati, BYU and UCF. The …
Funded entirely by private donations — over 500 in total — the multi-level venue sits adjacent to Carver-Hawkeye Arena and is decked out with modern amenities.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Swing through any city or town or countryside in America, and you’ll find tons of kids armed with lofty pro football dreams. That’s not necessarily the case in Nice, France. Just ask Junior Aho. Before he turned 15, the newly signed Carolina Panther defensive end didn’t kno…
DESTIN, Fla. — Former Alabama coach Nick Saban lorded over the SEC and college football for nearly two decades before he retired in January. Despite his unforgiving dominance and intimidating presence, the 72-year-old was widely missed at SEC spring meetings. “It definitely was strange not h…
PHILADELPHIA — The landmark settlement agreed to last week in a class-action lawsuit will — if approved by a judge in California — usher in the latest major changes in the way college sports is operated in the United States. Gone is any sense of amateurism. Here, most likely, is a revenue-sharing and salary-cap-like model for the future and the allotment of billions of dollars in back pay to ...
The debate within the Southeastern Conference about whether to play eight or nine league games is not over, it's just on hold. The SEC locked in a short-term solution to the eight or nine question by agreeing to go with eight games for this season and next, the first two with Texas and Oklahoma in the conference. No decision has been made for 2026 and beyond. Commissioner Greg Sankey says how the first season of an expanded 12-team College Football Playoff could influence which way the conferences goes. The SEC also announced a team that reaches the CFP championship game will receive $14.25 million.
Schools in basketball-centric leagues face the challenge of generating revenue to pay future players without the lucrative revenues from football. The NCAA and major college conferences approved the settlement of a federal class-action lawsuit on paying athletes. That includes paying $2.77 billion to former athletes over 10 years. But leagues like the Big East, Atlantic 10 and West Coast Conferences depend on basketball, which lags behind football in terms of generating revenue. That could create challenges in keeping up with teams in the power conferences when it comes to the ability to pay future players.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — With the college football season less than 100 days away, Kentucky will have not one, not two, but three transfer quarterbacks on Mark Stoops’ roster. There’s Brock Vandagriff, the Georgia transfer and expected starter. There’s Beau Allen, who has circled back to UK after starting out a Wildcat. There’s recent addition Gavin Wimsatt, the ex-Owensboro star who spent three years ...
ORLANDO, Fla. — Travis Hunter knows how to keep a secret. Hunter, the versatile player from West Palm Beach, has been a critical figure for the Colorado Buffaloes. However, when EA Sports approached him to feature as one of the three college football players on the cover of the highly anticipated College Football 25 video game, Hunter kept it under wraps, adding another feather to his cap. “I ...
Payton Sandfort is returning to Iowa for senior season.
Iowa State has already scrapped plans for a new wrestling facility. Texas A&M laid off a dozen or so athletic staffers. It's the tip of the iceberg as millions in college revenue starts going directly to the athletes.
PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Kyle Allen’s NFL career got off to a magical start when he won his first four starts, a feat that drew some attention because only one other undrafted free-agent quarterback in the previous two decades won four consecutive games to start his career. That player was Kurt Warner, who won a Super Bowl in his first season as a starter for the Rams and ended up in the Pro Football ...
Scholarships are not going away in college athletics. But how many there are and which sports they will apply to in coming years are among the many questions.
Two days after the Pac-12 took its final competitive breath, the conference lost its soul. Bill Walton passed away Monday after 71 years of a life like no other, ever. The cause: cancer. Left unsaid: a broken heart. Walton might have been the greatest player in college basketball history. He won two NCAA titles with UCLA and two more in the NBA (with Portland and Boston) and was a no-brainer ...
ISU's Wardlow honored
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Growing up in Rock Island, Trenton Wallace was a Cardinals fan. In pro ball, he’s found a home with the Blue Jays.
The depth of the challenge facing Mark Stoops and Kentucky in the newly expanded Southeastern Conference is best illustrated by how the Wildcats’ 2024 schedule was altered due to the changes that accompanied the pending arrivals of Oklahoma and Texas into the SEC. From its original 2024 SEC schedule, UK lost a home game with Mississippi State and road games at Missouri and Arkansas. In their ...
NCAA settlement could trigger financial impacts topping $24 billion across multiple conferences. Discover the certain nuances you need to know about here!
Faced with an unfamiliar situation, Chase Griffin relied on natural instincts. He surveyed the scene, felt the pressure and stepped up to face it. Qualities that served him as UCLA's quarterback came in handy testifying before Congress earlier this year. Only no audible was needed given all the time he had put into preparing his remarks about how these politicians were wrong in their misguided ...
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St. Ambrose hurdler Will Reemtsma placed second at nationals on Friday in the 400 hurdles.
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Charlotte Frere was twice a state Class 1A discus runner-up when competing for Sherrard High School.
OMAHA, Nebraska – Coltin Quagliano came up big for the University of Illinois baseball team on Thursday and his heroics proved costly for the Iowa Hawkeyes.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Who’s really the victim here — a marquee high school recruit and his opportunistic NIL agents and attorneys or football coach Billy Napier, the University of Florida and its stumbling, bumbling boosters who got duped like an I-Drive tourist buying an “authentic” Rolex from the street vendor in the parking lot of the outlet mall? Rashada, the much-traveled California ...