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I am intrigued by HN Admin/Staff member. Is HN ownership finally breathing some life back into the website??????

The G League is his most optimistic destination for next season, IMHO. I don't blame the kid for taking his shot, but if he wants to make a living playing hoops for a decade, he is going to have to get on one of those big planes that flies over the ocean.

While I don't think many of us like the changes that have come about with the free wheeling transfer portal and wild wild west NIL situation, it does make it easier for schools like Iowa to fill holes when there are transfers or decommits. KF will always want to run a developmental program, and...

She came into the league last year with a lot of anti-hype. Meaning, a lot of the old guard players and staff did not want to joint crown her and that is fine. She needed to earn it. Last year, as a rookie on a bad team with an average coach, she ended up 4th in the MVP ballot, broke about...

From what tidbits I have caught online so far it sounds like this was in the making for a while and that it was mutual. Not that Iowa recruited over him or anything, more that he wasn't singing the commitment song as loudly as KF wanted him to, so there was a bit of a mutual break up. You...

CC certainly did not look rusty. It was a fun game to watch. I am still shaking my head that I planned my weekend around watching a WNBA game.

As I noted above, my problem with the NBA is that I am not hardcore, and so I don't know the players well. Unless Steph or Lebron or Joker are in the finals, I turn on the game and I don't know a damn guy out there because hardly any of them played college ball in the US. With the WNBA, and...

Well, the last numbers I saw had 8 million or so watching the NBA Finals. 18 million people tuned into the NCAA Finals to watch CC. So, if the Fever make the finals, which the WNBA should absolutely rig and make happen :), I think it is a near lock that the WNBA will have more viewers for its...

The SEC has just been deeper at the top. Before the last mergers, the Big 10 had what, maybe 3 teams total that even have a shot at competing for a natty in football? OSU, Michigan, and maybe PSU. The SEC has Bama, Georgia, Florida, LSU, even schools like Auburn and Tennessee have won natties...

Fair points. If this goes where it seems to be going: two mega conferences of 20ish teams styled similar to the NFL, then the money available to the players from the schools, with an escalating cap, may become big enough that the dark booster money may lose relevance. If so, it is not...

No more punching the bean bags. That change seems wildly overdue.

All good points. Again, Congress could step in and say look, this a hybrid situation. Yes, these are people who can earn a lot of money and they are sort of employees and sort of not. They are also kids who are students and only supposed to be there for a short period of time. Given all...

And to be clear, the House settlement in fact has a functional salary cap starting this season with escalators for future years. Each school has a cap on the maximum they can pay their players. They are given discretion on which sports to allocate the money to and then how much any particular...

Agreed on transfers. Requiring a kid to sit for a year absent a coaching change or serious personal situation could really get the boosters out of the mix. Most rich dudes don't want to wait 2 years to see their 500k in action. Salary cap is a bit murkier. Your point about collective...

Just read that a bipartisan group of House members has introduced a bill that would largely codify the House settlement. It would give authority to regulate things like transfers without fear of antitrust violations, and it would preempt various state law efforts to avoid the restrictions of...

I was thinking about this, and how NIL hasn't infiltrated professional sports all that much. I mean, NFL teams have rich fans that want to win. What would stop Phil Knight from offering Patrick Mahommes a 250 million dollar Nike Deal, but only if he moved to Seattle and played for the...

The WNBA is worth a watch. They play team basketball and there are a lot of fun personalities. As much as Angel Reece takes a beating online from the CC faithful, she is good for the league. Every story needs a villain. The Fever are run to watch, even without Clark. I try to keep track of...

It also is not consistent with tradition of having a noncon schedule of fun interesting games out of conference at the beginning of the season, but after that, you go to war against your conference foes until bowl season. But again, if the SEC moves to a 9-game conference schedule as they...

For those of you focusing on Summer fun rather than ESPN, the House settlement was given final approval. Schools will now be paying kids directly, and at least in theory, the classic collective model that most major schools have developed in the last two years will go away. All NIL deals over...

I fell hiking a pretty narly trail in Hawaii. Drilled my head on a rock and twisted my ankle pretty bad. We were two miles from the car. My wife asked if I could hoof it out and I was like, "what's our other option?" She found me a walking stick and I spent 2 hours hobbling through mud...