The next step in the transfer portal’s takeover of college sports.
Joe’s Notes: Revenue Sharing and Reverse Realignment
College football players are going to get paid. Could that lead to a return of regionality? Also: Baseball, more baseball, Jim Harbaugh, and women’s basketball.
BFN: Texas’s SEC Friends, Enemies, and Frenemies
Finding the Longhorns their allies in this brave new world.
Joe’s Notes: 2027 World Series Odds and the 2024 Trade Deadline
If future championships matter, why do we measure trade value in dollars? Also: The latest House v. NCAA development, and college baseball’s rise.
BFN: What Pole Assassin’s Marriage Means for Texas Football
Breaking down the nuptials of college football’s most iconic former stripper.
Joe’s Notes: The Paul Skenes No-Hitter That Wasn’t
Also: NCAA Tournament selection changes, college athlete employment news, more Georgia driving, and Berhalter out.
Joe’s Notes: How College Football Will Separate From Other College Sports
We know the why. Yesterday, Brett Yormark dropped the how. Also: Kawhi Leonard, the Yankees, Wander Franco, and a little tennis.
Stu’s Notes: Craig Counsell Is Nothing Without Pat Murphy
Why the Brewers stayed the Brewers while the Cubs fell apart.
BFN: Texas Got a New Website
Farewell to the ass ports.
BFN: Texas A&M’s Life as Little Brother
Jim Schlossnagle, Pitbull, and Texas’s assertion of its dominance.
Stu’s Notes: Why We Respect Hockey (and Why We Don’t Respect the NBA)
Pouring one out for Connor McDavid.
Stu’s Notes: Who’s Weirder—Texas A&M or Tennessee?
Also: Just Stop Oilers, and the Gay Mets’ international man of mystery.
Joe’s Notes: Will There Ever Be Another Wayne Gretzky?
No matter what he does tonight, Connor McDavid is only an echo of what Edmonton once saw. Also: Tennessee sports, Houston’s AD, and a little Lane Kiffin.
Stu’s Notes: Behold (and Beware) the Gay Mets
Also: Riot potential and NCAA Tourn*ment expansion.
Joe’s Notes: Yes, Willie Mays Was the Greatest of All Time
Putting the late great’s career in context.
Joe’s Notes: The ACC–SEC Battle, Beyond the College World Series
It’s not as lopsided as it appears.
Stu’s Notes: The NIT Was Way Better Than the NBA Playoffs
Another triumph by basketball’s greatest tournament.
Joe’s Notes: Dan Hurley’s Staying at UConn. That’s Risky.
This is not the safe move many are selling. Also: Caitlin Clark and Team USA, an SEC/ACC College World Series, and Sergei Bobrovsky is magic.