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...
Murray State drops first CWS game while UCLA goes to 1-0
NCAA, Sports
June 16, 2025
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Roman Martin and AJ Salgado drove in two runs apiece to lead UCLA to a 6-4 victory over a Murray State team making its College World Series debut Saturday. The Bruins, in the CWS fo...
CWS appearance is homecoming for Arkansas’ Kozeal
NCAA, Sports
June 14, 2025
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Arkansas’ Cam Kozeal was a top 150 prospect for the Major League Baseball amateur draft two years ago, but pro ball was always going to have to wait. Having grown up in Omaha and be...
FSU’s Alex Lodise wins national honor
NCAA, Sports
June 14, 2025
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Florida State shortstop Alex Lodise has been named winner of the Dick Howser Trophy as the national player of the year, the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association announce...
Murray State entering CWS as lovable underdog
NCAA, Sports
June 14, 2025
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Like Fresno State, Stony Brook and Oral Roberts before them, the Murray State Racers are about to be embraced as the College World Series’ lovable underdogs by local fans looking to...
Some NCAA athletes might wait a while for settlement money
NCAA, Sports
By By EDDIE PELLS AP 
June 14, 2025
The attorney who negotiated the $2.8 billion legal settlement for the NCAA said Friday that thousands of former athletes due to receive damages could have to wait months or maybe more than a year to g...
Coastal Carolina beats Arizona, has won 24 straight
NCAA, Sports
June 14, 2025
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Coastal Carolina broke open a tie game with three runs in the eighth inning, Dominick Carbone shut down an Arizona threat in the ninth, and the Chanticleers opened the College World...
Ford makes history for WCCC golf
NCAA, Sports
June 12, 2025
For the Mon Valley Independent The golf world might not have known her name a year ago, but they certainly do now. Jada Ford, a determined freshman from Westmoreland County Community College, didn’t j...
Vulcans didn’t have to look far to find new baseball coach
Cal (Pa.), NCAA, Sports
June 11, 2025
By the Mon Valley Independent After nearly a decade of dedicated service and development within the California University of Pennsylvania baseball program, Joey Noro has officially been named head coa...
Being ‘Pittsburgh strong’ lured Dunning Jr. to Pitt
NCAA, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By GIUSTINO RACCHINI TribLive 
May 24, 2025
After playing for three college basketball teams the past three seasons, Barry Dunning Jr. was drawn to being part of Jeff Capel’s rebuilt roster at Pitt and chasing success in the ACC. “Being Pittsbu...
Ben Waldrum named Pitt women’s soccer coach
NCAA, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By BILL HARTLEP TribLive 
May 24, 2025
Pitt’s father-son tandem tasked with leading the Pitt women’s soccer program each will take on new roles. Randy Waldrum, who has been the Panthers’ head coach for the past seven seasons, will move int...
Capel, Pitt signs No. 2 recruit from Michigan
NCAA, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By BILL HARTLEP TribLive 
May 20, 2025
Pitt men’s basketball coach Jeff Capel bolstered his backcourt Thursday after signing one of the top high school players in Michigan. Point guard Macari Moore, a Mr. Basketball finalist this past seas...