Stewart Mandel

Sunnyvale, United States

Co-Host at The Audible with Stew & Bruce

Husband. Dad. I write about college football for The Athletic and talk about college football on The Audible. Tips? Compliments? Email [email protected].

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Attorney Calls Saban, Trump "Unmerited and Unhelpful"

1 week ago | d3playbook.com | Stewart Mandel |Steve Ulrich

MAY 6, 2025 | composed by STEVE ULRICH What administrators, coaches, parents and fans are reading. #whyD3 Send tips to and/or via DM ☀️ Good Tuesday Morning, DIII! 🗓️ What’s Happening Today. Men’s and Women’s Basketball Rules Committees meet today through Thursday. The Minority Opportunities and Interests Committee meets today. 🎶 Your Morning Pick-Me-Up. Roll With It. Some Steve Winwood to start the day. 📰 Are You Enjoying D3Playbook? Support our work. It’s just $8 for championship month.
Can the university return to having the 'best of both worlds'?

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Stewart Mandel |Lindsay Schnell

PALO ALTO, Calif. - The news last July came as a shock to the college sports industry. A softball star, pitcher NiJaree Canady, was leaving perennial power Stanford for Texas Tech, an afterthought in the sport. It was a commonly held assumption that few athletes would voluntarily leave behind a prestigious Stanford degree. But this was a new era. Canady, the national player of the year, had received a $1 million NIL deal - an unheard-of amount outside of football and men's basketball.
The NFL rejected the Sanders firestorm. Is that the difference between CFB and NFL?

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Stewart Mandel

I've long been one of the few writers covering college football who have little interest in the NFL Draft. And this year, I was particularly apathetic going in, due mostly to the uninspiring class of quarterbacks. But then Shedeur Sanders kept dropping, and suddenly I got sucked in like everybody else.
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With Nico Iamaleava gone, will Tennessee fans cut Heupel some slack?

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Stewart Mandel

Last Wednesday, a few colleagues and I were discussing over Slack the increasing likelihood that Nico Iamaleava was going to land at UCLA (which he did four days later). It wasn't a prediction, necessarily, but I said the one thing that would make the Nico saga even more entertaining was if expected UCLA starter Joey Aguilar took Nico's place at Tennessee. Lo and behold, the football gods delivered. My next request: Let them play each other in next year's ReliaQuest Bowl.
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3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Stewart Mandel

April has become a surprisingly busy time in college football, what with the spring portal window and spring practices colliding. Leave your questions here. Please include your city.
Stanford breaks college softball attendance record with 13,207 fans vs. Cal

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Stewart Mandel

Stanford broke the college softball all-time attendance record Saturday with a crowd of 13,207 for its game against rival Cal, played at the Cardinal's football stadium. The previous record of 12,566 was set at last year's College World Series in Oklahoma City. The Cardinal are playing at Stanford Stadium this season while their regular venue, Boyd and Jill Smith Family Stadium, undergoes a $38.5 million renovation. The school record at that venue was 1,323.
Bill Belichick hasn't changed my mind he's the right hire for North Carolina yet

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Stewart Mandel

At the time he was hired last December, I was ... um, skeptical about North Carolina's choice of Bill Belichick as head coach. But I'm always open to being proven wrong. Perhaps hiring a then-72-year-old coach with zero college experience would prove to be an inspired decision after all. As such, I've been scouring for any morsel of info on how the Belichick era is going so far. Information has been sparse.
Is Nico Iamaleava worth it? Which schools are possible suitors?

4 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Stewart Mandel

It had been a quiet offseason in college football. And then, out of nowhere, Tennessee's starting quarterback pulled the first known holdout of the name, image and likeness era, and now he's no longer Tennessee's starting quarterback. Fire away, guys. Note: Submitted questions have been lightly edited for clarity and length. Is Nico Iamaleava worth the trouble? - Darren L. Probably not if your program is in fairly good shape at quarterback going into this season.

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14 May 25

So many lawyers are going to get so rich running to judges to get injunctions on behalf of collectives/boosters.

Ross Dellenger @RossDellenger

In a meeting with Deloitte officials at ACC spring meetings, the company shared with ADs/coaches interesting figures on the NIL clearinghouse. - 70% of past deals from booster collectives would have been denied. - 90% of deals from public companies would have been approved.

Stewart Mandel @slmandel

13 May 25

Does this mean you can now bet on Pete Rose's chances of getting into the Hall of Fame at the sports book that's inside the Reds' own stadium?

Stewart Mandel @slmandel

13 May 25

!!!!!!!

Don Van Natta Jr. @DVNJr

EXCLUSIVE: MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred removes Pete Rose, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson from MLB's permanent ineligible list. Rose and Jackson-- baseball's two pariahs, stained by gambling-- now have a clear pathway for consideration for Baseball's Hall of Fame. Story TK