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Alex Byington

North Carolina

Managing Editor at On3

Managing Editor for @On3Sports’ National News Desk. Former SEC beat reporter for @MGMAdvertiser, @decaturdaily/@timesdaily & @oanow. Navy brat. Opinions my own.

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  • 3 days ago | on3.com | Alex Byington

    Last week, the attorneys representing the NCAA and power conferences agreed to a revised plan to phase in roster limits as part of a revised House v. NCAA settlement before Judge Claudia Wilken in the U.S. Northern Districk Court of California. The proposal, which would effectively grandfather all current student-athletes and any that were preemptively cut before the settlement was finalized, would appear to satisfy Wilken’s request last month.

  • 5 days ago | on3.com | Alex Byington

    Mack Brown is officially six months into his second retirement from college coaching after his late November firing formally closed the door on his second career stint at North Carolina. It certainly wasn’t the end the 73-year-old Brown envisioned for himself when he returned to Chapel Hill in 2019.

  • 5 days ago | on3.com | Alex Byington

    Skip to main contentA year after opting to leave early for the NFL, where he drafted by the Las Vegas Raiders as the 13th overall selection in the 2024 NFL Draft, former Georgia superstar Brock Bowers returned to Athens to officially graduate on Friday. Bowers walked during UGA’s Terry College of Business commencement ceremony Friday, with his mother DeAnna Bowers sharing the moment on X/Twitter.

  • 5 days ago | on3.com | Alex Byington

    Skip to main contentFive-Star Plus+ quarterback prospects Bryce Underwood and Keelon Russell battled it out to be named the No. 1-ranked QB in the 2025 recruiting cycle, with Underwood eventually locking up that title according to the On3 Industry Rankings. And, at least according to ESPN insider Pete Thamel, both Russell and Underwood are both in the mix to be among the first true freshman QBs to start a game during the 2025 season.

  • 5 days ago | on3.com | Alex Byington

    Skip to main contentThe NCAA Men’s Basketball Rules Committee has proposed major rule changes that are expected to improve the “flow” of play ahead of the 2025-26 season, according to a NCAA release Friday afternoon. Chief among those recommendations is the addition of a single coach’s challenge at any point in the game “to review out-of-bounds calls, basket interference/goaltending and whether a secondary defender was in the restricted-area arc,” the release stated.

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Alex Byington
Alex Byington @_AlexByington
17 Apr 25

RT @On3sports: NEW: Deion Sanders takes jab at NCAA when addressing denied scrimmage with Syracuse: “Hopefully we get it a year from now,…

Alex Byington
Alex Byington @_AlexByington
17 Apr 25

RT @On3sports: NEW: Michigan true freshman QB Bryce Underwood surprised his high school security guard with a new car❤️ (via @BryceUnderwo…

Alex Byington
Alex Byington @_AlexByington
17 Apr 25

RT @On3sports: BREAKING: Auburn's Chad Baker-Mazara plans to enter the NCAA Transfer Portal, he announced. https://t.co/AHe7k2SZUG https:…