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☆ Opinion | Are We Looking at George H.W. Biden?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Frank Bruni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

It breaks your heart, but as Carly Simon sang, there is more room in a broken heart. And yet here we are, atoms with consciousness, each of us a living improbability forged of chaos and dead stars. Flagg’s highlight mixtapes are downright gratuitous — look at him reducing these poor kids into piles of gristle and bone! It should honestly come with a content warning.” (Matthew Dallett, Brooklin, Maine)In The Wall Street Journal, Jason Gay rendered a damning (and furry!) Maybe the dog lies down and chews a big stick.” (Paul Shikany, the Bronx)

Persons: Anne Lamott, Carly Simon, ”, Melissa France, Steve Aldrich, Maria Popova, “, “ Oppenheimer, Jo Radner, James Bennet, Donald Trump, Mitt Romney, Trump, Romney, bankrupting bender, Roger Tellefsen, Luke Winkie marveled, Cooper Flagg, Flagg, Matthew Dallett, Jason Gay, Paul Shikany Organizations: Washington Post, Times, Republicans, Duke basketball, Street Locations: Washington, Flemington, N.J, Minneapolis, Bulgarian, Lovell , Maine, Berwyn, Pa, Brooklin , Maine, Bronx

☆ Walter Davis, Basketball Star With a Velvet Touch, Dies at 69
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( Richard Sandomir | More About Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Walter Davis, whose smooth shooting propelled him to basketball stardom with the University of North Carolina and the Phoenix Suns, but who late in his career struggled with drug addiction, died on Thursday while visiting family in Charlotte, N.C. Davis, a 6-foot-6 forward, played at North Carolina from 1973 to 1977 for Dean Smith, one of the most successful coaches in college history. In one of Davis’s signature games, in March 1974, North Carolina was losing to Duke, 86-78, with 17 seconds left. North Carolina went on to win in overtime, 96-92. “I wasn’t trying to bank it in,” Davis, then a freshman, said afterward.

Persons: Walter Davis, Davis, Dean Smith, Bobby Jones, Phil Ford, Mitch Kupchak, “, ” Davis, ” Organizations: University of North, Phoenix Suns, North, Tar Heels, Duke, After North Locations: University of North Carolina, Charlotte, N.C, North Carolina, After, After North Carolina

The key to recruiting top college football players these days is not just a lavish training facility or a storied coach. The rapid rise of big-dollar payments to student-athletes from so-called donor collectives has emerged as one of the biggest issues in college sports, transforming how players are recruited and encouraging a form of free agency for those looking to transfer. And because many of the groups are set up as charities or with charitable arms that make donations tax-deductible, they are drawing scrutiny from the Internal Revenue Service. two years ago to allow payments to student-athletes. While in theory they operate independently of athletic programs, collectives have become deeply embedded in the economics of college sports, offering vast supplements to the scholarships that schools provide.

Organizations: Internal Revenue Service

☆ Opinion | College Sports Is Broken. Here’s What Must Come Next.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Jordan Acker | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Many student athletes rarely have the chance to step foot in a classroom, attending their classes online and taking proctored exams in hotel ballrooms near the next game site. Say the Big Ten required its TV partners to share 30 percent of its revenues with its student athletes,. The N.C.A.A.’s rules on revenue sharing are driven by their members; this change will not come from the N.C.A.A.’s home base of Indianapolis, but from leaders at member institutions speaking frankly about the challenges to come. It must also take into account the input of student athletes, who are too often shut out of decisions that directly affect them. Make no mistake, the courts are judging the Big Ten Conference, and the other major N.C.A.A.’ conferences, on their behavior.

Persons: Iowa’s, Kirk Ferentz, Jim Harbaugh, Brett Kavanaugh, Alston, ’ Organizations: College, University of Michigan, University of Oregon, Delta Airlines, Big Ten Conference, Rutgers, University of Washington, Big, Big Ten Football Locations: Salt Lake City, Seattle, Detroit, London, Michigan, Ann Arbor, Indianapolis, America

☆ Australian Punters Are Putting a New Spin on Football
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Jeré Longman | More About Jeré Longman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

On a cloudy, gusty morning last month, three dozen students, teachers, construction workers, electricians and bartenders wore helmets and shoulder pads and boomed torpedoes, banana kicks and drop punts. Down the hill from a strip mall outside Melbourne, on a borrowed soccer field, they trained to become the next generation of Australian punters who greatly influence special teams play at the highest levels of American college football and, to a lesser extent, the N.F.L. This season, 61 of the 133 teams in the Football Bowl Subdivision, the top tier of N.C.A.A. football, have Aussie punters on their rosters, according to Prokick Australia, a Melbourne-based academy that converts Australian rules football players and some rugby players into punters (and a smaller number of kickers) for the American game.

Organizations: Football Locations: Melbourne, N.C.A.A, Australia

☆ The Tennis Education of Ben Shelton
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( Kurt Streeter | More About Kurt Streeter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

He did not play any of the significant junior grand slam events that have operated as springboards for many pros. Shelton went to the University of Florida, where the men’s tennis coach happened to be Bryan Shelton, who is well respected in tennis circles for emphasizing a mastery of the game over chasing victories. There was no grand plan to move Ben quickly up the tennis ranks. “You work on something, you work on something, you keep working on it, and then, six months later, you see that you can do it,” the younger Shelton told me this week. Then he began running roughshod in ATP Challenger tournaments, the tennis equivalent of Triple-A baseball.

Persons: Shelton, Bryan Shelton, Ben, “ Organizations: American, University of Florida, Florida, ATP Challenger, Triple

☆ Visualizing the Latest Wave of N.C.A.A. Conference Realignment
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Josh Katz | Kevin Quealy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

Missouri and Texas A&M were the first teams to join the SEC in 20 years. Financial benefits and concerns about conference stability lured Boston College to become the A.C.C.’s 12th member in 2005. Penn State, one of the last major programs to remain independent, became the Big Ten’s 11th member in 1993, setting off a wave of realignment across college football. The Missouri Valley Conference stopped sponsoring football after the 1985 season. Arkansas departed for the SEC in 1991, signaling the beginning of the end for the Southwest Conference, long associated with N.C.A.A.

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☆ Conferences Are Changing. The Sport Is, Too.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Billy Witz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When the college football season kicks off in earnest this Labor Day weekend, it will be a test to keep an eye on the ball. The focus for a few days may be on blocking, tackling and quick-trigger assessments of who’s up and who’s down, but then what in a sport that is on the cusp of unprecedented upheaval? Consider what college football will look like in a year. Texas and Oklahoma, anchors of the Big 12 Conference, will be in the Southeastern Conference. And after this season, the College Football Playoff will balloon from four teams to 12.

Organizations: Labor, Big, Southeastern Conference, Atlantic Coast, Stanford, College Football, National Labor Relations Board Locations: Texas, Oklahoma, California, Berkeley, Duke, North Carolina

☆ The Unusual Legal Agreement Behind ‘The Blind Side’
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Santul Nerkar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In August 2004, Michael Oher was living with Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy and their two children in Memphis. Oher, who had bounced around several foster homes, was a top prospect to play major college football and seemed headed to the N.F.L. Because the Tuohys were not Oher’s parents, providing support to him could have been seen as breaking N.C.A.A. As significant donors to the University of Mississippi, one of the colleges recruiting Oher, the Tuohys might subject themselves and the school to penalties in case of a violation. Everyone who has seen the 2009 film “The Blind Side” knows what happened next: Oher attended Mississippi, the Tuohys’ alma mater, and went on to the N.F.L.

Persons: Michael Oher, Sean, Leigh Anne Tuohy, Oher, Tuohys, Sandra Bullock Organizations: University of Mississippi Locations: Memphis, Mississippi, alma

☆ Hiding From the Yips Will Only Make It Worse
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( David Waldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Maddy Wood was an incoming freshman at Western Kentucky last fall, on scholarship, in shape and elated to pitch for the Hilltoppers. Her pitches skidded in the dirt, bounced off home plate and soared over the catcher’s head as onlookers snickered and grumbled. I was considering quitting, until I spoke to Eileen.”Eileen Canney Linnehan knew the emotional pain that was shattering Wood’s life. A standout pitcher at Northwestern in the 2000s, Canney Linnehan had lost the ability to make routine throws to bases. She could fire pinpoint, unhittable pitches, and she crafted an illustrious college career, including an appearance in the N.C.A.A.

Persons: Maddy Wood, Wood, snickered, “, ” Wood, Eileen, ” Eileen Canney Linnehan, Canney Linnehan Organizations: Western, Northwestern Locations: Western Kentucky

☆ Women’s World Cup: Sweden Rallies Past South Africa; the Netherlands Gets Started
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Andrew Das | The New York Times | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

Women’s World Cup: Sweden Rallies Past South Africa; the Netherlands Gets Started Sunday’s schedule includes three of the tournament favorites. Give this articleNetherlands v. Portugal Molly Darlington/Reuters Netherlands v. Portugal Molly Darlington/Reuters Netherlands fans Lars Baron/Getty Images Sweden v. South Africa Amanda Perobelli/Reuters Sweden v. South Africa Andrew Cornaga/Associated Press Sweden v. South Africa Amanda Perobelli/Reuters Sweden v. South Africa Andrew Cornaga/Associated Press Sweden v. South Africa Andrew Cornaga/Associated Press Sweden v. South Africa Andrew Cornaga/Associated Press Wellington, New Zealand Catherine Ivill/Getty Images Team France Carl Recine/Reuters Published July 23, 2023 Updated July 23, 2023 1 Netherlands Group E 0 Portugal 2 Sweden Group G Full Time 1 South Africa Fridolina Rolfo (65’) Amanda Ilestedt (90’) Hildah Magaia (48’) – France Group F – JamaicaSweden survives a scare against South Africa. Much was made before the World Cup of the potential gap between the eight first-time entrants and the traditional powers. Credit... Alessandra Tarantino/Associated Press The Netherlands, Sweden and France are the teams to watch on Sunday, the fourth day of the Women’s World Cup. But if his pedigree coaching women is thin, his World Cup pedigree is long: Most recently, he coached Saudi Arabia in the men’s World Cup in December, a run that included a famous win over Lionel Messi and Argentina.

Persons: Molly Darlington, Lars Baron, Africa Amanda Perobelli, Africa Andrew Cornaga, New Zealand Catherine Ivill, Carl Recine, Africa Fridolina, Amanda Ilestedt, Hildah Magaia, John Cowpland, Fridolina Rolfo, Alessandra Tarantino, Corinne Diacre, Hervé Renard, Lionel Messi, Sophia Smith, Crystal Dunn, Andrew Cornaga, Sophia Smith’s, Smith, Katie Meyer, Meyer, “, Katie, ” Smith, Naomi Girma, Girma, Katie ❤️ pic.twitter.com, AoGLUcxeMU — Naomi Girma, ” Organizations: Reuters, Getty, Associated Press, Team, –, Jamaica, Credit, Canada, England, Haiti, United, Vietnam, Sunday, Sweden, South, U.S, Portugal, Tokyo, Wellington , New Zealand, that’s, Saudi Arabia, Stanford, U.S . Locations: Africa, Netherlands, U.S, Reuters Netherlands, Sweden, Reuters Sweden, Associated Press Sweden, Associated Press Wellington, New Zealand, Portugal, Jamaica Sweden, South Africa, United States, France, Wellington , New, that’s Portugal, Saudi, Argentina, Germany, Australia, Jamaica, Credit, States, Vietnam

☆ Opinion | Transgender Athletes in Women’s Sports
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Examples of problematic participation of transgender athletes are extraordinarily rare. By one estimate, “out of 200,000 women in college sports at a given time, about 50 are transgender.”Nor is participation a given. In line with the Olympic framework, the N.C.A.A. follows a “sport by sport approach.” By evaluating testosterone levels and other factors, the N.C.A.A. aims to preserve “opportunity for transgender student-athletes while balancing fairness, inclusion and safety for all who compete.”The Biden administration’s proposed Title IX rule also allows schools to prohibit transgender athletes from competing if it would undermine fairness or create undue risks of injuries.

Persons: David French, ”, Biden administration’s Organizations: Women’s

☆ Ben and Bryan Shelton, Son and Father, Hit the Road as Player and Coach
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Matthew Futterman | Jane Stockdale | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Last year, when Ben Shelton decided to leave college and turn professional, he wondered aloud to his father, Bryan, a former player on the men’s tennis tour, if they ought to embark on a venture together. Sorry, Bryan Shelton told his son, he already had a full-time job coaching at the University of Florida. Bryan Shelton handed the reins to Dean Goldfine, a highly respected coach who had previously worked with the former world No. Division I tennis tournament, the Sheltons announced that Ben had a new/old full-time coach. “It was the right time,” Bryan Shelton said.

Persons: Ben Shelton, Bryan, Bryan Shelton, Dean Goldfine, Andy Roddick, Ben, Florida’s, ” Bryan Shelton, Shelton, Taro Daniel Organizations: University of Florida, Gators, Wimbledon Locations: Gainesville, Fla

☆ One Small Change Goes a Long Way After College Hoops Corruption Scandal
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Billy Witz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Tyler Boston has several strikes against him. For one, he’s a 5-foot-10 high school senior without the size to be easily noticed by college recruiters. For another, college basketball coaches can afford to be picky with high school players because the transfer portal is brimming with older players who have an extra pandemic year of eligibility. The DMV Live event was among the roughly 50 N.C.A.A.-certified events around the country in which college coaches were permitted to make in-person evaluations of players with their high school teams. stadium, to the New York City Public Schools Athletic League Showcase in Brooklyn.

Persons: Tyler Boston Organizations: Boston, Las, of Columbia, DMV, New York City Public Schools Athletic League Locations: Atlanta, Las Vegas, Potomac, Md, Washington, of Columbia , Maryland, Virginia, Appleton , Wis, Brooklyn

☆ Bob Huggins Resigns From West Virginia After Drunken Driving Charges
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Claire Fahy | Santul Nerkar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Last month, Huggins was disciplined after he used a homophobic slur twice and mocked Catholics on a local Cincinnati radio program. Huggins, who coached at the University of Cincinnati from 1989 to 2005, was charged with drunken driving in Ohio in 2004 and pleaded no contest. In 38 seasons as the head coach at Akron, Cincinnati, Kansas State and West Virginia, he led his teams to 26 N.C.A.A. But a national title has eluded Huggins, who has the most wins of any coach to never cut down the championship nets. “Coach Huggins devoted himself to his players, to our student body, to our fans and alumni and to all West Virginians,” the statement read.

Persons: Huggins, “ Columbus, “, ” Huggins, Kentucky’s Adolph Rupp, Jim Calhoun, ” Organizations: West Virginia University, University of Cincinnati, Division, Akron, Akron , Cincinnati , Kansas State, West Virginians Locations: Pittsburgh, ”, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Cincinnati, Akron , Cincinnati , Kansas, West Virginia

☆ The N.C.A.A. Wants More Money From TV. Maxing That Out Could Prove Tricky.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Billy Witz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For more than 20 years, fans of college sports like softball, baseball, women’s basketball and more than two dozen others have known just where to find N.C.A.A. championships — on ESPN’s spectrum of channels. The arrangement has worked well for both parties: The N.C.A.A. A sign of how comfortable the N.C.A.A. and ESPN were with their partnership came in 2011, when they agreed to a 13-year, $500 million renewal without the N.C.A.A.’s ever taking the rights to market.

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☆ Anti-Trans Bathroom Bills Are About Humiliation - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Lydia Polgreen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Anyone who fails to comply could face misdemeanor trespassing charges that could result in jail time. Now, bathroom bills are back, part of a pitiless onslaught against trans bodies that gathers speed with each passing day. Around 10 states have passed laws barring transgender children from using their chosen bathroom. So far this year there are more than 30 bills aimed at restricting bathroom use by trans people, according to the Human Rights Campaign, more than any other year on record. But none have gone as far as Florida, which is now the only state to criminalize using a bathroom that doesn’t align with your sex at birth.

☆ A Tennis Match That’s Also a College Program’s Farewell
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Victor Mather | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

This is where a college tennis team has the greatest moment in its history. For the first time, the men’s team from St. Francis of Brooklyn was playing in the N.C.A.A. But after the first-round match was over on Friday, and St. Francis had fallen, 4-0, to Columbia, the program was no more. St. Francis is dropping all of its sports at the end of the school year for budgetary reasons. Chad Davis played at St. Francis and has been the men’s tennis coach for 19 years.

☆ Ralph Boston, Olympian Who Soared Into the Record Books, Dies at 83
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Glenn Rifkin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ralph Boston, the Olympic long jump champion who, in August 1960, broke the track star Jesse Owens’s 25-year-old world record in the event, and a year later became the first jumper to break the 27-foot mark, died on Sunday at his home in Peachtree City, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta. Boston dominated the long jump through much of the 1960s by breaking or tying world records six more times over that span. A tall and sinewy Mississippian, he won a gold medal in the Rome Olympics in 1960, a silver medal in Tokyo in 1964 and a bronze in Mexico City in 1968. long jump title in 1960, when he was an emerging athlete at Tennessee State University (then known as the Tennessee Agricultural & Industrial State University). In August, he burst onto the national scene at a conditioning meet in Los Angeles that served as a final tuneup before the Rome Olympics.

☆ As the Final Four Finishes, a Parallel Transfer Season Plays Out, Too
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-01 | by ( Billy Witz | Adam Zagoria | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

HOUSTON — It wasn’t long before Kansas and North Carolina tipped off for the men’s college basketball championship in New Orleans last April that Darrion Trammell called San Diego State Coach Brian Dutcher with some news. Now, a full year later, it is easy to see the consequence of that decision. Trammell, a transfer from Seattle University who was courted by Texas Tech and Southern California, among others, has been an indispensable cog for San Diego State, which has reached the men’s Final Four for the first time. He scored 21 points in the upset of top-ranked Alabama, and his free throw with 1.2 seconds left lifted the Aztecs over Creighton in the South Regional final. “It’s wild how it’s all worked out,” Trammell said on Friday, one day before San Diego State was set to play Florida Atlantic for a spot in the national championship game.

☆ When Every Win Means Water, Water Everywhere
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Andrew Keh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

When Every Win Means Water EverywherePicture yourself at work. Teleport this scene into a sports locker room, though, and suddenly the dousing is perfectly in bounds. But like many coaches, he eventually accepted his fate, removing his shoes before entering the locker room. The athletes were unwinding in the locker room when Coach Mark Few and his assistants charged in and began sousing them with ice-cold water. Isaiah Wong, the team’s star shooting guard, said they would only consider spraying water now if they won the championship.

☆ Tournament Prediction Game, Round 3: Salvage Your Bracket!
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-29 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

tournament bracket is probably completely busted. See if you can make accurate predictions about the men’s and women’s Final Four. Then you can compare your choices to other readers’ picks (and see what the New York Times sports staff thinks). If you played in previous weeks, you can check your scores for Round 1 and Round 2. Let’s begin this round:

☆ The New York Times News Quiz, March 24, 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Four schools had both their men’s and women’s basketball teams reach the Sweet Sixteen round of the N.C.A.A. tournaments. Which of these is not one of them?

☆ Bracket Busted? Try Round 2 of Our Tournament Prediction Game Instead.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-21 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

tournament bracket is in shambles. How about playing a game that requires no brackets? See if you can make accurate predictions about the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight. Then you can compare your choices to other readers’ picks (and see what the New York Times sports staff thinks). Want to see how you did in Round 1?

☆ N.C.A.A. Bracket Picks: Where Fans and Experts Diverge
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Josh Katz | Alice Fang | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

One avenue is examining the differences between the forecasts of mathematical models and the collective choices of fans. For example, fans are much more likely to have Kansas and Alabama in the Final Four than the experts. The table below shows an aggregate view of the difference between the public’s picks and those of forecasting models. But if you pick the same teams as everyone else, your bracket will look the same, too, something you should consider. There is no guarantee that this approach will work, of course, and part of the draw of the N.C.A.A.

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