For those wanting to trace the evolution of money and college sports over the past half-century, Southern Methodist offers a perfect example.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/30/business/southern-methodist-university-college-sports.html
He ran a highly successful booking agency, but his secret contacts with college athletes led to convictions (later reversed) for racketeering and fraud.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/07/sports/ncaafootball/norby-walters-dead.html
In sports, the best team doesn’t always win a championship, but it almost always gets an opportunity to try. Tell that to the 13-0 Florida State Seminoles.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/04/us/college-football-playoffs-florida-state.html
Dozens of players were caught up in the lies and false promises of Bishop Sycamore and Christians of Faith Academy. One player made it out to play major college football.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/sports/ncaafootball/bishop-sycamore-louisville.html
This season is the last before new-look leagues and an expanded playoff will make the sport feel much different. More change came Friday with California, Stanford and Southern Methodist joining t...
Meiko Locksley was found to have had a degenerative brain disease often associated with football. His father, the head coach at Maryland, is still reckoning with the implications.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/28/sports/ncaafootball/football-concussions-cte.html
Michael Oher says Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy used their relationship with him to unfairly profit from his story. They have denied it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/24/sports/football/blind-side-michael-oher-tuohy.html
“The Blind Side” played on sports fans’ penchant for too-tidy narratives, our columnist writes. A legal battle between the N.F.L. player and the family depicted in the film seeks to answer ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/sports/ncaafootball/the-blind-side-michael-oher.html
Michael Oher has long criticized the feel-good Hollywood version of his life as a struggling high school football player. His lawsuit against the family that took him in questions their relations...
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/16/sports/football/blind-side-lawsuit-movie.html
The Big Ten booms to 18 schools with the move, powered by TV money, and the once-great Pac-12 dwindles to four after three more schools leave for the Big 12.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/sports/ncaafootball/pac-12-oregon-washington-big-ten-big-12.html
In lawsuits, former athletes accuse the sports program of having a pervasive culture of hazing and sexual abuse, and two coaches have been fired. Lawyers say more athletes may come forward.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/28/sports/ncaafootball/northwestern-sports-hazing.html
The N.C.A.A. said Tennessee had a culture of wrongful payments to athletes, including cash for hotels, meals and car payments, among other things. The university was fined $8 million but avoided ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/14/sports/ncaafootball/tennessee-fine.html
San Diego State had to make a decision about whether to leave the Mountain West Conference. It stayed put, but a move to the Pac-12 still beckons.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/sports/ncaafootball/college-football-realignment.html
Carter, projected as a top-five pick in the N.F.L. draft, pleaded no contest to two misdemeanor charges and will serve 12 months of probation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/sports/ncaafootball/jalen-carter-plea-crash-georgia.html
Colorado has numerous scholarships available after a change in its coaching staff, serving as one of many examples of how the transfer portal has created a market similar to professional free age...
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/sports/ncaafootball/transfer-portal-colorado.html
The police said that Carter, projected as a top-5 pick in the N.F.L. draft, had been involved in a crash that killed a Georgia teammate and a team staff member.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/01/sports/football/jalen-carter-arrest-nfl-draft.html
Devin Willock, an offensive lineman, and Chandler LeCroy, a recruiting analyst, died after a vehicle driven by LeCroy crashed into power poles and trees.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/15/sports/ncaafootball/georgia-player-crash-dies.html
Georgia forced the Horned Frogs into plenty of bad plays. But T.C.U. showed unusual flaws compared with its previous games this season.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/sports/ncaafootball/tcu-national-championship-game.html
And as recruits flock to the Bulldogs, they can thank quarterback Stetson Bennett IV, whose first stint with the team came as a walk-on.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/sports/ncaafootball/georgia-national-championship.html
There is no banal color commentary, no players milling around between plays — just athletes carrying a billion-dollar industry on their backs with amazing plays.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/magazine/diy-hype-videos-college-football.html