Chris Vannini
Sport Reporter at The Athletic
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Chris Vannini
Akron football will be ineligible for the postseason in 2025 due to its Academic Progress Report (APR) score, according to the NCAA's APR database, marking the first time in more than a decade that a Football Bowl Subdivision team has been penalized for such. The Zips, who have not played in a bowl game since 2017, had a multi-year score of 914, which measures a four-year timeframe and is below the required threshold of 930.
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nytimes.com | Chris Vannini |Ralph Russo
President Donald J. Trump is considering issuing an executive order aimed at how college athletes can be compensated after he met with Nick Saban during a trip to Tuscaloosa, Ala., earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Trump and the former Alabama football coach met Thursday night after the president gave the commencement address at the university.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Chris Vannini
The rebuilding Pac-12 Conference announced Friday that the 13 home games for Oregon State and Washington State in 2025 will be broadcast across a mix of three networks: CBS, ESPN and The CW. It's the next step in a multi-step process to reconstruct the league.
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nytimes.com | Sam Khan Jr. |Chris Vannini
Outside of the Shedeur Sanders drama, one of the biggest stories of this year's NFL Draft was the slide of quarterback Quinn Ewers, the former highly-touted recruit who won big at Texas but ended up as a seventh-round pick by the Miami Dolphins. Ewers passed up a lot of money by opting to go pro, leading some to wonder whether it was the right call.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Chris Vannini
The fourth in-person College Football Playoff meeting of 2025 ended with a familiar result: No decisions on the three biggest issues, creating more pressure to meet an unofficial and perhaps wishful summer deadline on any format changes. Those three biggest topics included a potential seeding change for 2025 (which would require unanimity), possible expansion and format changes for 2026 (which the Big Ten and SEC have control over) and basic governance contracts.
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