Does Watching College Football on TV Have to Be So Miserable? The corporations that control these broadcasts know: It can still be hugely lucrative to provide an experience that fans come to despise.
Big Ten Gets More Than $1 Billion a Year in Record TV Deal The agreement splits the Big Ten’s sports between Fox, NBC and CBS, and is the richest annual deal for any college sports league.
At Least 4 Players on Alabama’s ’60s Football Teams Had CTE At least four fixtures of Alabama’s great teams of the 1960s had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E., at their deaths. Researchers expect it in other players, too.
Welcome to the Big Ten, U.C.L.A. and U.S.C. I Already Hate You. It will be weird with these California schools in my conference, but I welcome the new rivalries.
In College Sports, the Power Five May Become the Power Two The Big Ten and the SEC are consolidating power. The rest of college sports, some fear, could become a muddle.