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It’s time to join the workforce, guys
College sports have undergone understandable eligibility tweaks in recent years. Still, as Zakai Zeigler's lawsuit shows, there are boundaries that…
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Craig Meyer
Murray State is the ultimate College World Series Cinderella
There have been some unlikely participants who have crashed college baseball's biggest stage, but none quite like the Racers
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Craig Meyer
The College Football Hall of Fame bent its rules for Mike Leach. It needs to do the same for Howard Schnellenberger
The Hall's win percentage requirement is keeping out one of the best coaches in the sport's history
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Craig Meyer

May 2025

The story behind UCLA softball's vacated 1995 national championship
The Bruins are the most decorated program in NCAA softball history, but a bizarre series of events deprived them of a 13th national title
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Craig Meyer
How softball explains Texas Tech’s grand ambitions
By adding a million-dollar pitcher, the formerly hapless Red Raiders are one win away from the Women's College World Series. Their big-money moves go…
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Craig Meyer
The journey of Gregg Popovich, Division III basketball coach
Long before the recently retired coaching legend led the San Antonio Spurs to five NBA titles, he was the coach at Division III Pomona-Pitzer
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Craig Meyer
Illinois basketball's Eastern European odyssey
Brad Underwood's program is stockpiling players whose names end in "ic". It could put the Fighting Illini at the forefront of the sport's next big trend
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Craig Meyer
College basketball’s most restless soul has found his next home
Buzz Williams is on the move once again, this time to Maryland. Why does he never seem to stay anywhere longer than five or six years? It's complicated
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Craig Meyer

April 2025

How Lee Corso the coach gave us Lee Corso the TV personality
The charisma and quirks that defined Corso's "College GameDay" run were first seen on the sideline
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Craig Meyer
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Western Michigan hockey did the damn thing
In their first Frozen Four appearance, the upstart Broncos won the first NCAA title of any kind for their school since the 1960s. Here's how they got…
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Craig Meyer
Florida basketball's uncomfortable championship
The Gators won their third-ever national title this week, but it's difficult, if not impossible, to separate that triumph from questions about their…
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Craig Meyer
Duke didn’t win a national championship, but it did something more improbable
Over the past five months, Cooper Flagg, Jon Scheyer and company somehow made the Blue Devils likeable
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