College Sports
The NCAA said it had reached a negotiated resolution with the school involving five former and current coaches and staffers, but it did not include allegations that Jim Harbaugh failed to cooperate with investigators. That is now a separate case.
This year’s draft class had the potential to be a total bust because several stars, including Clark, could have opted to return to college for a fifth season.
After being fired for the first time in his career, Holtmann wanted to unplug from basketball. Instead, he plugged back in.
The legacy Orenthal James Simpson leaves behind is painful, a study of what truly drives American culture.
Also, we asked how excited you are to see the Bulls in the NBA’s play-in tournament. Let’s just say voters didn’t struggle to contain themselves.
Pope was 110-52 in five seasons with the Cougars and went 23-11 in their first season in the Big 12 Conference.
Has there ever been an athlete — I could almost say, has there ever been a man? — who rose to such a peak in life and then descended into such a valley?
The Cubs and White Sox return to Apple TV+ this month, but fans might not get the bang for their buck. However, a few other streamers that air our teams are worth the money.
A message posted Thursday on Simpson’s official X account — formerly Twitter — said he died after battling cancer.
With the Indiana Fever anticipating Clark as their No. 1 overall pick in the WNBA Draft, the team will have 36 of their 40 games featured on national broadcasts or by the league’s streaming partners, up from 22 last season.
Ryan Field, which housed the football team for almost 100 years, is in the process of being demolished.
The winningest basketball coach in NCAA history announced her retirement Tuesday night after 38 seasons leading the Stanford women’s team and 45 years overall.
Calipari signed a five-year contract with a base annual salary of $7 million through April 2029 with a maximum of two automatic rollover years for NCAA Tournament appearances that would extend the contract to 2031.
UConn’s 75-60 victory over Purdue in Monday night’s men’s final on TBS and TNT averaged 14.82 million viewers, according to Nielsen. That was not enough to surpass the 18.87 million who watched South Carolina defeat Caitlin Clark and Iowa in Sunday afternoon’s women’s final on ABC and ESPN.
Purdue comes in at No. 2, Illinois at No. 6.
Calipari said on social media that the “program probably needs to hear another voice.” He is rumored to be headed to Arkansas.
A source said Tuesday there has been no communication between the school and Donovan, who publicly has discussed how much the college game has changed since he left in 2015 — not necessarily in a good way.
The Big Ten’s national-title drought is nearing the quarter-century mark, but the conference has seen lots of elite teams since young Tom Izzo led the Spartans to the mountaintop. Here are the top 10.
The Huskies won their sixth overall title and became the first repeat champions since Billy Donovan’s Florida teams won in 2006-07.
Records come, records go. Clark is deserving of plaudits, but an explanation of the scoring record requires a deeper dive.
Iowa was a unanimous choice at No. 2, the Hawkeyes’ best finish since they were also second in the final poll of 1988.
March Madness finale is the very matchup a Sun-Times scribe predicted it would be. Wait a minute — did that genius really pick the Boilermakers over the Huskies?
Women’s and men’s tournaments come down to the best teams.
Balanced attack from the Gamecocks bested Iowa and Caitlin Clark, who finished her collegiate career with 30 points.
Next up for the Huskies will be what should be a much more physical test against 7-4, 300-pound Zach Edey and Purdue in Monday’s national championship game. UConn has its own accomplished big man in 7-2 Donovan Clingan.
Purdue kept its March Madness dream alive while snuffing out North Carolina State’s, getting 20 points and 12 rebounds from Zach Edey in a 63-50 victory.
Regardless of the sum of individuals’ GOAT equations, there’s no denying Clark is, at the very least, among the greatest with or without a national title. Sunday, though, she’ll have an opportunity to give the naysayers one less thing to argue against her.
Caitlin Clark and the Hawkeyes have the most buzz on the women’s side — yes, it’s because she’s awesome — but the Gamecocks have yet to lose a game all season.
Burns has turned the Trojans into a legitimate national power at the highest level of junior-college basketball.
Bet on it: Behind genius Hurley, UConn looks to go 6-0 against the spread in NCAA tourney for second consecutive year