ARLINGTON, Texas — Brett Yormark remembers tuning to CBS on Saturday afternoons while growing up in New Jersey in the late 1970s and watching Bob Knight pace the sidelines as the coach of the Indiana men's basketball team.The Hoosiers were one of the most successful teams in the country under ...
Chancellor Douglas Girod on Thursday expressed confidence Kansas will "land in a good place" as conference realignment again grips college athletics, but didn't quite rule out that place could be somewhere other than the Big 12.In a brief interview with the Journal-World Thursday, Girod was ...
Conference realignment in college sports has been going on since 1984, when the Supreme Court invalidated the NCAA's national television contract for football.The conference juggling has gone through ebbs and flows through the years since, from small schools bumping up to bigger leagues to ...
The first year of the athlete compensation era in college sports evolved into almost everything the NCAA didn't want when it gave the green light last summer.What was envisioned as a way for college athletes to make some pocket money based on their celebrity has, since rules went into effect on ...
Nearly a year after Texas and Oklahoma shook up the college sports landscape by deciding to leave the Big 12 for the SEC, UCLA and USC have done so again.The two tradition-rich Los Angeles universities are leaving the Pac-12 for the Big Ten beginning in 2024.Big Ten presidents and athletic ...
DALLAS — Brett Yormark, an executive with Jay-Z's Roc Nation and former CEO of the Brooklyn Nets, was named Big 12 commissioner Wednesday, another unconventional hire by a major conference amid the rapidly changing landscape of college athletics.Yormark is taking over for Bob Bowlsby, who ...
Just when it looked like Kansas was turning the corner in conference play, victory was snatched from the Jayhawks in a 92-84 overtime loss to Oklahoma last Saturday. KU held a 22-point lead at halftime that was squandered in the second half, sending the Jayhawks to 1-8 in Big 12 play.Things ...
A struggle in the paint for Texas Tech and an inspired defense by Kansas led to the Jayhawks defeating the Red Raiders 67-50 Saturday night at Allen Fieldhouse.One great example of Kansas’ defensive showing came in the second quarter, when what could have been a simple layup for Texas Tech ...