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ACC Commissioner Makes Eye-Opening Expansion Comments Amid Pac-12 Uncertainty

As conference realignment continues to shape the landscape, the ACC commissioner says that the league is open to new membership.

Sports Illustrated

ACC Commissioner, Former Northwestern AD Responds to Being Named in Hazing Lawsuits

Phillips, Northwestern’s athletic director from 2008 to ’21, was named as a defendant in two lawsuits regarding allegations of hazing.

Sports Illustrated

Third Plaintiff Added to Northwestern Hazing Case, Lawyers Say

Here’s where everything stands among the two legal teams filing suits against the school and members of its administration.

Sports Illustrated

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At Northwestern, a widening gap between questions and answers fills with a purple haze

Just how twisted are things in the Wildcats’ football program and athletic department?

Chicago Sun-Times

The Zodiac Killer claimed responsibility for 37 murders. But what if he never existed at all?

The enduring mystery of the Zodiac Killer has terrified and tantalised the world for more than half a century. There has been no shortage of theories about the killer, but a new Peacock series explores a singular question: What if there was no ‘Zodiac Killer’ at all? Sheila Flynn writes

The Independent UK

Money Doesn’t Change Everything: ACC, Pac-12 Find Still Find Success in Form of Titles

The recent string of national titles amongst ACC and Pac-12 schools should remind fans that your conference doesn’t need all the money to find success.

Sports Illustrated

ACC to adopt new revenue model. Clemson could be one of biggest beneficiaries.

The ACC’s board of directors has endorsed a new “success incentive initiative” that could help Clemson in a big way starting next year.

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Potential ACC Split Is a Reminder of the Business of College Sports

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that amongst the ADs spearheading realignment talks, a new revenue model is at the center of the conversation.

Sports Illustrated

What’s at Stake for Clemson, Florida State, and the Future of the ACC

Welp, the world now knows some ACC programs are looking for greener pastures. Depending on which direction the league takes, get ready for all hell potentially breaking loose.

Sports Illustrated

Expansion and How Three Conferences Look to Compete With SEC and Big Ten

How do the Big 12, Pac-12 and ACC keep up while generating millions less than the SEC and Big Ten? Some believe all three of them cannot coexist successfully.

Sports Illustrated

Luke DeCock: Jim Larranaga, one of the last of the ACC’s living legends, enjoying Final Four moment

HOUSTON — In the 17 years that passed between Final Four appearances for Jim Larranaga, he changed schools (from George Mason to Miami), became a worse dancer (according to his players and his own self-appraisal), and lost none of the love for coaching he absorbed from Terry Holland.

Tribune News Service

Crying Northwestern Kid appeared to be back at men’s March Madness and seeing him will make you feel old

Say hello again to Crying Northwestern Kid.

USA Today Sports Media Group

LONG SHOT: ESPN, ACC, And Pac-12 Talked About A Joint TV Deal. Could It Really Happen?

The Trio Talked Last Summer About A Plan To Save Both Conferences And Talks Could Be Revived.

Zenger

College Football Execs Considering Four Changes to Shorten Games

The rule changes, which include the game clock continuing to run after incomplete passes, could be implemented this fall.

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Luke DeCock: ACC basketball has a credibility gap, created in part by its own coaches. Here’s one fix.

Saturday night’s officiating debacle in Charlottesville couldn’t have come at a worse time for the ACC. Its own coaches have spent the past month questioning the credibility of their own officials, rightly or wrongly, to the point where commissioner Jim Phillips had to send out a memo to coaches and…

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Luke DeCock: ACC gives its football teams new guidance on scheduling non-Power 5 road games: Don’t

Coming off a year in which the ACC played 10 road games at non-Power 5 opponents — and lost three of them — schools received new guidance from the league office: Don’t.

Sports Illustrated

College Sports’ Rapid Winds of Change Blow Through the Big Ten

Former commissioner Kevin Warren led the conference through a momentous three years, but his exit adds another moving part to the volatile college sports landscape.

Sports Illustrated

One of College Sports’s Most Important Jobs Is Now Open

Some in the industry already have a name in mind for who should be the next Big Ten commissioner.

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Luke DeCock: NCAA Tournament expansion starting to feel less theoretical, more inevitable

RALEIGH, N.C. — It’s way too early to say the train has left the station, but it might be time to stop worrying about whether the powers that be are going to expand the NCAA basketball tournament and start worrying about how to minimize any damage when they do.

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In uncertain college football landscape, the future is now for UNC and the ACC

The text message conversation began on the afternoon of June 30 the way countless others around the country did, with two people with an interest in college athletics commiserating about the news of the day. They were not merely fans, though, but two of the most powerful figures in the…

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Luke DeCock: ACC’s choice to leave Greensboro says a lot about what league is now — big business

RALEIGH, N.C. — The most jarring thing about the ACC finally finalizing its inevitable move from Greensboro to Charlotte is that, unlike just about everything else that’s so disorienting about college sports these days, this was not done by perceived necessity. It was entirely by elective choice.

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ACC headquarters moving from Greensboro to Charlotte in what was ‘difficult’ decision

RALEIGH, N.C. — Sixty-nine years after its founding in a smoke-filled room inside of the old Sedgefield Inn, the ACC is leaving the city and relocating its headquarters to Charlotte, the league announced on Tuesday.

Chicago Sun-Times

Ted Phillips has no regrets but one thing he’d change: ‘Get the QB right, please’

The Bears’ president/CEO announced his retirement last week, effective Feb. 28.

The National (Scotland)

Were trade unions right to halt strikes and events after the Queen's death?

Are trade unions squandering newfound strength by calling off strikes after the Queen's death?

Tribune News Service

Duke volleyball player and dad say BYU didn’t act fast enough during racist incident

As a child growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1960s and early ’70s, Marvin Richardson lived through school desegregation and the racial turmoil that followed the passage of the Civil Rights Act. He lived through the “fears and challenges” that came with being Black in the South, he…

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