UCLA softball standout Megan Grant will join basketball team
NCAA, Sports
July 12, 2025
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Megan Grant, a two-time All-American softball player at UCLA, is joining the Bruins’ women’s basketball team for the upcoming season. She will play both sports in 2025-26. “Basketba...
Madness expansion to 72 or 76 could happen this season
NCAA, Sports
By By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer 
July 11, 2025
The committees for men’s and women’s Division I basketball met this week to discuss possible expansion of the March Madness tournaments, but made no immediate decisions or recommendations. “The still ...
College sports agency is rejecting some NIL deals
NCAA, Sports
By By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer 
July 11, 2025
The new agency in charge of regulating name, image, likeness deals in college sports sent a letter to schools Thursday saying it had rejected deals between players and donor-backed collectives formed ...
St. Vincent’s Petruska steps down as women’s coach
NCAA, Sports
By By BILL BECKNER JR. TribLive 
July 11, 2025
Referencing his legacy, Jimmy Petruska said he wants to be remembered as a coach who taught life lessons to his players. “I hope I inspired each one of them through the game that I love,” Petruska sai...
Rich Rod’s return to West Virginia is a homecoming, too
NCAA, Sports
July 10, 2025
FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Rich Rodriguez has more gray around the temples than the last time he was at West Virginia, nearly 20 years ago when he bolted for Michigan as one of the hottest coaching prospect...
BYU coach avoids comment on QB Retzlaff’s status
NCAA, Sports
July 9, 2025
FRISCO, Texas (AP) — BYU coach Kalani Sitake declined to address the status of Jake Retzlaff on Tuesday amid reports that the quarterback is transferring after being accused of sexual assault in a civ...
Settlement era begins, shaking up college athletics
NCAA, Sports
By By MAURA CAREY AP Sports Writer 
July 3, 2025
The NCAA’s House settlement era opened Tuesday, with athletic programs across the country free to start paying millions to their athletes in the biggest change in the history of college athletics. The...
Pac-12 gets 8th team with addition of Texas State
NCAA, Sports
July 2, 2025
SAN MARCOS, Texas (AP) — Texas State is joining the Pac-12, giving the rebuilding conference the eighth football-playing school it needed to maintain its status as an FBS conference. The Pac-12 and Te...
Transfer Minor answers Capel’s call for a point guard
NCAA, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By DAVE MACKALL TribLive 
June 28, 2025
The Pitt Panthers needed a point guard following all-ACC third-teamer Jaland Lowe’s transfer to Kentucky. Damarco Minor was happy to answer the call. A call in April, that is, from Pitt men’s basketba...
Lackawanna College to move up to NCAA D-II in PSAC
NCAA, Sports
June 27, 2025
Lock Haven will move to the PSAC West Division with the Falcons moving into the PSAC East. By TribLive The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference announced Thursday that it extended an invitation to L...
Athletes and visionaries reshaping college sports
NCAA, Sports
By By MAURA CAREY AP Sports Writer 
June 25, 2025
College athletic departments are scrambling. Players are transferring season to season, top talent is demanding big contracts and millions of dollars will start flowing directly from schools to their ...
Coastal coach Kevin Schnall frustrated about CWS ejection
NCAA, Sports
June 23, 2025
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Coastal Carolina coach Kevin Schnall, tossed from the game along with first base coach Matt Schilling in the first inning of the College World Series finals Sunday, said his ejectio...
Retired coach happy to watch Coastal in CWS
NCAA, Sports
June 20, 2025
Coastal Carolina and LSU will meet in College World Series final beginning Saturday. OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Considering the run Coastal Carolina’s baseball team is on — 26 straight wins on the way to the ...
Scrutiny for transfers is ironic for modern college athletes
NCAA, Sports
By By MAURA CAREY AP 
June 19, 2025
Hailey Van Lith was one year away from tying a bow on a traditional college career at Louisville and being cemented as one of the most decorated four-year starters in Cardinals history. She had just l...
NCAA, Sports
By By JOSH DUBOW AP 
June 19, 2025
Sacramento State will join the Big West conference as a full member starting with the 2026-27 academic year. Sacramento State informed the Big Sky on Wednesday that it will leave the conference after ...
Louisiana looking to hike sports betting tax to pay athletes
NCAA, Sports
By By DAVID A. LIEB AP 
June 18, 2025
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 Land...
Murray State will have CWS memories forever despite no-hitter
NCAA, Sports
June 18, 2025
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The stands at Charles Schwab Field were emptying, and Murray State players wanted to savor their program’s first College World Series as long as they could. Never mind the Racers ha...
Texas lineman commits to Pitt
NCAA, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By BILL HARTLEP TribLive 
June 17, 2025
Pitt nabbed its first four-star recruit in the Class of 2026 on Sunday when offensive lineman Day’Jon Moore committed to coach Pat Narduzzi. A 6-foot-3, 305-pound interior lineman at Willis High Schoo...
LSU set to play UCLA tonight after win over Arkansas
NCAA, Sports
June 16, 2025
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Kade Anderson limited Arkansas’ high-powered offense to three hits and a run in seven-plus innings, LSU knocked Razorbacks ace Zach Root out of the game early, and the Tigers beat t...