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Ben Portnoy

South Carolina

College Sports Reporter at Sports Business Journal

College Sports Reporter for @SBJ | Ex-Hoosier

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  • 1 week ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Ben Portnoy

    College football season is still 86 days away, but it’s never too early to start planning. The Big 12 announced early season selections for a slew of conference-controlled contests between Weeks 0 and 3, along with a handful of later season games on Thursday. The slate of 10 games that were revealed will see seven carried by Fox between Week 0 and Week 3, beginning with Fresno State at Kansas on Aug. 23. Iowa-Iowa State on Sept.

  • 1 week ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Ben Portnoy

    Michael Cross is no stranger to issues of NCAA governance. Cross, the Southern Conference commissioner, has made stops at Penn State, Princeton and Michigan, along with a spell as the athletic director at Bradley. Such roles bring perspective on the unwieldy mission of college sports’ governing body.

  • 2 weeks ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Ben Portnoy

    The American Athletic Conference is adding a new arm to its business operations. The league is set to announce the creation of American RISE Ventures, a vertical designed to roll up the AAC’s commercial business interests into a single entity, Commissioner Tim Pernetti told Sports Business Journal.

  • 2 weeks ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Ben Portnoy

    The Asian University Basketball League is set to receive a major cash infusion. The league comprised of college basketball programs from schools across China, Japan and South Korea is slated to announce a seed round investment led by Blue Pool Capital, SBJ has learned. Exact financial details were not disclosed, but a source told SBJ it’s worth “well into the millions.”The influx of capital is a major stepping stone for a league that has its share of significant backers.

  • 2 weeks ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Ben Portnoy

    Before we get going, I want to give another huge shoutout to Ben Sutton and the folks at Teall Sports and Entertainment for putting on a dinner last week to honor my predecessor, longtime SBJ writer Michael Smith. It was an absolute pleasure to get to be in the room with Smitty, his family and so many others from around the college sports business world to celebrate our friend.

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Ben Portnoy
Ben Portnoy @bportnoy15
14 May 25

Noteworthy development as the deadline for this was Friday. In theory, the sooner this is in Judge Wilken's hands, the sooner a ruling could come.

Sam C. Ehrlich
Sam C. Ehrlich @samcehrlich

Presumably looking to get a quicker ruling from Judge Wilken, the House plaintiffs have filed their response to the objectors a couple days before their Friday deadline. Full doc: https://t.co/kFgmm8RUOb https://t.co/y5qbKZU9hQ

Ben Portnoy
Ben Portnoy @bportnoy15
14 May 25

Welp, there's that

Mike Rodak
Mike Rodak @mikerodak

Nick Saban to @finebaum on reported conversations with Trump about NIL commission: “I don’t know a lot about the commission, first of all. Second of all, I don’t think we really need a commission.”

Ben Portnoy
Ben Portnoy @bportnoy15
14 May 25

Spring meeting season is here. From CFP to the House settlement, there's plenty to discuss. A few storylines I'm tracking during #meetingszn and more in this week's college newsletter: https://t.co/V6aZ95Af70