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The Latest Breaking News from Jim Phillips

LONG SHOT: ESPN, ACC, And Pac-12 Talked About A Joint TV Deal. Could It Really Happen?

The Trio Talked Last Summer About A Plan To Save Both Conferences And Talks Could Be Revived.

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College Football Execs Considering Four Changes to Shorten Games

The rule changes, which include the game clock continuing to run after incomplete passes, could be implemented this fall.

Sports Illustrated

Luke DeCock: ACC basketball has a credibility gap, created in part by its own coaches. Here’s one fix.

Saturday night’s officiating debacle in Charlottesville couldn’t have come at a worse time for the ACC. Its own coaches have spent the past month questioning the credibility of their own officials, rightly or wrongly, to the point where commissioner Jim Phillips had to send out a memo to coaches and…

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Luke DeCock: ACC gives its football teams new guidance on scheduling non-Power 5 road games: Don’t

Coming off a year in which the ACC played 10 road games at non-Power 5 opponents — and lost three of them — schools received new guidance from the league office: Don’t.

Tribune News Service

College Sports’ Rapid Winds of Change Blow Through the Big Ten

Former commissioner Kevin Warren led the conference through a momentous three years, but his exit adds another moving part to the volatile college sports landscape.

Sports Illustrated

One of College Sports’s Most Important Jobs Is Now Open

Some in the industry already have a name in mind for who should be the next Big Ten commissioner.

Sports Illustrated

Luke DeCock: NCAA Tournament expansion starting to feel less theoretical, more inevitable

RALEIGH, N.C. — It’s way too early to say the train has left the station, but it might be time to stop worrying about whether the powers that be are going to expand the NCAA basketball tournament and start worrying about how to minimize any damage when they do.

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In uncertain college football landscape, the future is now for UNC and the ACC

The text message conversation began on the afternoon of June 30 the way countless others around the country did, with two people with an interest in college athletics commiserating about the news of the day. They were not merely fans, though, but two of the most powerful figures in the…

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Luke DeCock: ACC’s choice to leave Greensboro says a lot about what league is now — big business

RALEIGH, N.C. — The most jarring thing about the ACC finally finalizing its inevitable move from Greensboro to Charlotte is that, unlike just about everything else that’s so disorienting about college sports these days, this was not done by perceived necessity. It was entirely by elective choice.

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ACC headquarters moving from Greensboro to Charlotte in what was ‘difficult’ decision

RALEIGH, N.C. — Sixty-nine years after its founding in a smoke-filled room inside of the old Sedgefield Inn, the ACC is leaving the city and relocating its headquarters to Charlotte, the league announced on Tuesday.

Tribune News Service

Ted Phillips has no regrets but one thing he’d change: ‘Get the QB right, please’

The Bears’ president/CEO announced his retirement last week, effective Feb. 28.

Chicago Sun-Times

Were trade unions right to halt strikes and events after the Queen's death?

Are trade unions squandering newfound strength by calling off strikes after the Queen's death?

The National (Scotland)

Duke volleyball player and dad say BYU didn’t act fast enough during racist incident

As a child growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1960s and early ’70s, Marvin Richardson lived through school desegregation and the racial turmoil that followed the passage of the Civil Rights Act. He lived through the “fears and challenges” that came with being Black in the South, he…

Tribune News Service

After a Rocky Start, Kevin Warren Is Winning

With USC and UCLA joining and the Big Ten announcing a lucrative new media rights deal, the commissioner’s reputation is looking a lot different these days.

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College Football’s 25 Most Intriguing People in Suits

Commissioners, agents, politicians, NIL company executives and more will play a key role in the sport this fall.

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The Direction of College Athletics Hangs in the Balance. Here’s How.

Where has realignment taken college sports, and where could it be heading in the future? Our writer roundtable tackles six pressing issues.

Tribune News Service

As ACC looks to address revenue gap, competing worldviews emerge on future of college sports

In the span of about a week, in cities separated by about 600 miles, two of the most powerful leaders in college athletics offered contrasting worldviews in this summer of massive change and uncertainty. One of them espoused the supposed values of the traditional collegiate sports model; the other embraced…

Sports Illustrated

Kevin Warren Is Ready to Lead the Big Ten Into the Future

A tumultuous 2020 behind him, the conference’s commissioner has rapidly won over support and turned his league into a coast-to-coast juggernaut.

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1-on-1 with Pat Narduzzi: Thoughts on expansion, the Big Ten and winning a different way

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Pat Narduzzi and three Pitt players arrived at the Westin Charlotte for Thursday’s ACC Kickoff at around 9:30 a.m. They spent an hour-and-a-half filming TV features before taking the podium for a press conference. Narduzzi hopped on ACC Network before joining his players for an open interview…

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The ACC Coastal, college football’s most interesting division, readies for swan song

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Amid the consternation about the future and present of the ACC — the endless talk about the revenue gap; the speculation over whether the league’s grant of rights will hold; the questions concerning any potential defections — legitimate change has been forgotten in the hysteria. Part of…

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Typically heavy on hype, this year’s ACC Kickoff highlighted by uncertainty, anxiety

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In a way it was the same as it has ever been here on Wednesday during day one of the ACC’s annual preseason football kickoff: the same cliches and the same kind of boundless optimism eternal this time of year; the same expansive hordes surrounding the big…

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Luke DeCock: Jim Phillips may be last idealist left in college sports. That should count for something.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jim Phillips is a true believer. If there was any doubt about it before, there was none left after Wednesday. At a time when not only his conference but college athletics in general is being pulled in new, odd directions by forces both benign and malignant, the…

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As ACC hunts revenue increases, Jim Phillips ‘confident’ no schools will leave league

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Financial might has the Big Ten and Southeastern conferences leaving the rest of the college leagues in the dust.

Sports Illustrated

As the College Sports Gap Widens, Jim Phillips Digs In

The ACC commissioner believes his league can still close the gap with the SEC and Big Ten.

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5 storylines to keep an eye on ahead of ACC media days

PITTSBURGH — On Wednesday, the ACC Football Kickoff will get underway in Charlotte, N.C.

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