Every spring football league arrives with the same promise. New colors, new slogans, and new broadcast partners all insist that this time, finally, the sport has cracked the code on non‑NFL football. The United Football League has reached the point...
AJ McCarron did not come back to spring football to play a mascot. He walked into the United Football League’s toughest job: replacing a championship coach, taking over a flagship brand, and trying to prove that a first-time head coach can keep a...
March Madness Expansion Is the Latest Sign That College Sports Run on Money First and Logic Second. Viewed in isolation, Tournament expansion can sound like a tweak. Viewed in context, it looks like part of a much larger financial rewrite of college...
NCAA Tournament Expansion Is Being Sold as Inclusion. It Looks More Like Protection for the Powerful. The most effective ideas in college sports are often sold with soft language. Access. Opportunity. Fairness. The proposed expansion of the NCAA...
The NCAA Tournament is not short on drama. It does not lack memorable upsets, television value, or national relevance. Yet the push toward expansion continues because the problem being solved is not competitive. It is financial. The NCAA Doesn’t...
