Updated at 3:27 p.m. Commissioners from the ACC, Big Ten and Pac-12 joined together on Tuesday to formally announce an alliance between their three power conferences. While doing so, they made sure to point out that they’re rooting for the Big 12 Conference and emphasized that a ...
As the alliance between the ACC, Big Ten and Pac-12 continues to move toward reality, at least one of those conferences appears to still be considering expansion. The Athletic’s Nicole Auerbach reported Friday [that a formal announcement about the alliance between the three power ...
The very thing that looked like it could save the Big 12 Conference a couple of weeks ago might now be the thing that winds up doing it in. Such is life on the wrong side of the realignment lunch room. If you’re not sitting with the popular kids today, you very much run the risk of getting ...
United States senator Roger Marshall, a Kansas Republican, has called on U.S. attorney general Merrick Garland to investigate ESPN’s role in kick-starting the latest round of conference realignment. In a formal letter addressed to Garland, Marshall asked for the Department of Justice to ...
Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby has said throughout the past couple of weeks that he believed the Big 12 would have “options” that make it viable to stay together after Oklahoma and Texas depart. Although the conference — and college athletics as a whole — remains a long way from ...
Austin, Texas (AP) — The Big 12 Conference could see the value of its television deal cut in half once Texas and Oklahoma bolt for the Southeastern Conference, Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said Monday at a hearing of Texas lawmakers. A committee of Texas senators heard testimony from ...