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When the 2024-25 broadcast season kicks off in September, Fox will have to forge ahead without its highest-rated primetime series, a two-hour block that defied both…
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Fox Sports, AEG Launching ‘College Basketball Crown’ Tournament
Fox Sports and entertainment company AEG are coming together to launch the College Basketball Crown, a new men’s postseason tournament that will begin play in March 2025…
SEC, Big Ten to Cash In on New College Football Playoff Payouts
College Football Playoff stakeholders have inked a six-year, $7.8 billion television extension with ESPN, according to multiple reports, a deal that stands to escalate…
Fox Preps Friday College Football Showcase as ‘SmackDown’ Exits
When Fox elected to part ways with the WWE’s Friday Night SmackDown franchise last fall, it did so knowing full well that it was walking away from its highest-rated…
Will Washington See Any of $11.7M Its Run Has Earned Pac-12?
Washington’s run to college football’s national championship game has earned $11.7 million for the Pac-12 conference. It’s unclear if the Huskies will see any of…
Sporticast 307: Recapping a Tumultuous Year in College Sports
On the latest Sporticast episode, host Eben Novy-Williams speaks with Sportico colleagues Daniel Libit and Michael McCann to discuss the crazy year in college sports…
Making Sense of Michigan’s Decision to Drop Big Ten Lawsuit
On Thursday, the sports world braced for a historic courtroom hearing that would have pitted the University of Michigan and head football coach Jim Harbaugh on one side…
Harbaugh, Michigan Prep for Friday With Big Ten v NCAA Rules
Attorneys representing the University of Michigan, head football coach Jim Harbaugh and the Big Ten will appear before Washtenaw County (Mich.,) Judge Timothy Connors on…
Exclusive
NCAA Power Conferences Hedge Bets on Declining Gambling Data Market
In late 2022, shortly after signing the largest media deal in college sports history, Big Ten executives began focusing on another major commercial milestone—the first…
Realignment Will Put 12-Team College Football Playoff to the Test
Happy Wednesday, SporticoU readers! With the MLB playoffs underway, we’re thinking ahead to a different postseason… The College Football Playoff (CFP) expands to 12…
Opinion
The ACC Expands, and It’s All About (TV) Contracts
Today’s guest column is from Rick Burton of Syracuse University. When I served as commissioner of Australia’s National Basketball League (between 2003-07), we added…
NBC’s Primetime Big Ten Showcase Has Advertisers Going Hog Wild
College football may be cannibalizing itself like the butcher in the Richard Scarry books—a pig, mind you—who sells bacon and ham to the other animals in Busytown, but…
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