Excellent piece. Please read and share. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

U Louisville President Gerry Bradley and Board Chair Larry Benz joined the podcast to talk about their efforts to reform college athletics. YouTube: lnkd.in/g5J22hKv #CollegeAthletics #HigherEducation #CollegeSports

Senate joins the House in adopting a resolution directing Trump to stop the war in Iran or get congressional approval, the first time since the passage of the War Powers Act in 1973 that both houses of Congress have voted for such a measure. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/u...

All voices need to be heard: h/t @achristovich.bsky.social frontofficesports.com/womens-baske...

Lionel Messi 🇦🇷 is the second player in history to score 17 goals at a World Cup. Marta did it first! 🇧🇷👑

"This is an unbelievably bad deal. It could only have been devised by the type of man who would lose money as a casino owner." thehill.com/national-sec...

"This is taxpayer-free," Trump said of his $400 million ballroom. "We have no taxpayer putting up 10 cents." Except the contractor estimated three weeks earlier it would cost $600 million--with more than half from taxpayers, @washingtonpost.com reports. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Excellent analysis on MOU with Iran and US www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The administration’s rapid response account is… mad at the Weather Channel. For reporting the weather.

➡️ Faculty "no confidence" votes are no longer a last resort—and finances are often the trigger. 🎯 build real faculty input into budgeting before a crisis 🎯 be transparent about athletics spending vs. academic priorities 🎯don't let your board be blindsided. 📺 Full episode: lnkd.in/dwn37bNj

"That football and soccer are harder to watch at field level doesn’t seem to matter. Stadiums compensate by installing mammoth video screens so patrons can still see what’s happening. Many of the spaces aren’t meant for full-game viewership anyway." -- www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

DRAIN THE SWAMP!

One of the reasons why universities are pushing back against Texas Tech's quarterback being allowed to play after gambling on his own team is that they fear financial repercussions down the line. I shared a few thoughts in this piece (along with @drkarenweaver.bsky.social).

So, now some athletes want to be paid to visit a campus... 😵‍💫 www.cbssports.com/college-foot...

What a nightmare for UNC-CH to deal with... www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...

www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb... It doesn’t get more Texas than this!

Welp...another loss for the integrity of the college game. www.si.com/college/cinc...

Have we pushed athletes too far? youtube.com/shorts/adplZ...

This stuff should really, really concern you. Alarming.

😮😮😮 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

We’ve allowed our mission in athletics to stray so far because we’ve been chasing money,” Weaver says. universitybusiness.com/how-enormous...

Some pretty good news on the college enrollment front. #AcademicSky #HigherEd www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

A judge ordered the Kennedy Center to remove President Trump’s name, saying that it had been added unlawfully. The judge also temporarily blocked the institution from closing in July for renovations, months after Trump announced a two-year closure. nyti.ms/4dGbhSo

FIFA sharing personally identifiable info for stadium employees during the #WorldCup with the federal government, including ICE. “Workers feel duped by the accreditation forms into having provided excessive personal information which FIFA now have in their hands,” www.nytimes.com/athletic/731...

The bill "precludes the creation of a so-called “super league”; creates an agent registry limiting fees to 5%; permits the pooling of media rights; and bars coaches from leaving their team before the season ends." @rossdellenger.bsky.social sports.yahoo.com/college-foot...

FULL letter from now former MSU president: president.msu.edu/communicatio...

Stunning news from Michigan State. eu.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/l...

Senate Republicans are expected to delete some or all of Trump's ballroom money. www.semafor.com/article/05/2...

Everything is a mix of corruption, incompetence, lies and mean spiritedness. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/o...

A Post analysis of 50 hours of televised sports found that betting references have become a ubiquitous part of the viewing experience. The first-of-its-kind analysis shows how billions of dollars in advertising annually by sports betting companies has profoundly changed televised sports in America.

1. Number of stories about Trump buying and selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stocks in the first three months of 2026: CBS: 0 CNN: 0 Fox News: 0 NPR: 0 PBS: 0 Politico: 0 Semafor: 0 Business Insider: 0

Really important work on this story. The identification of college women's basketball with a higher prevalence of gambling ads and notifications is startling. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

The pressure ramps up. naacp.org/articles/naa...

2. Three more SMOKING GUNS in Trump's new 113 page financial disclosure. Trump purchased between $50,000 and $100,000 in Micron stock on March 25 (also unsolicited). The next day he called into The Five, said he had just met with Micron's CEO, and called Micron "one of the hottest companies."

As researchers, we know the government has poisoned the data. This video lays out the stakes as to how dangerous that is. www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

Pre-order: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... "In Understanding College Athletics, Weaver offers a clear, practical account of how intercollegiate athletics functions as a complex enterprise with far-reaching implications for institutional reputation, finances, governance, and student experience."

Excellent piece by @cantb.bsky.social about the challenges public research universities are facing in a decidedly partisan political environment. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

well this is disappointing...registrations are way down for the 2026 Philadelphia conference... 🙁... www.ft.com/content/7f17...

Caitlin Clark’s star power has put all 44 Indiana Fever regular-season games on national TV or streaming — despite their market size.

Donald Trump’s Iran war is ripping across the US economy at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars in lost output, as soaring fuel prices, rising borrowing costs and supply chain snags erode Americans’ prosperity. ft.trib.al/UBrpxHz

Sunday reader: Thoughts on MSU's revenue quest as a microcosm of college athletics’ unsustainable moment Thinking a little bit about the financial arms race: mitten-football.ghost.io/sunday-reade...

I sat down with two Michigan State University Board members, Michael Balow and Dennis Denno, to pull back the curtain on that role — and what it really means to provide effective oversight of athletics in the Big Ten Conference today.

Trump's deals with pharmaceutical companies are “one-off agreements made for publicity purposes,” said a Harvard professor who studies drug prices. "They don’t change anything about the way drugs are priced."

📣 School Spirit: It's Not Just About Athletics Anymore! 📣 A new Art & Science Group poll of 1,481 college-bound seniors shows students define campus spirit far beyond wins and losses, prioritizing unity, traditions, and everyday pride over big-time sports. Full Poll: www.artsci.com/student-poll...

Learn more about our staff’s reporting that revealed the conflicts of interest and self-enrichment running rampant through the Trump administration.

FRANKLIN, TN conservative David French: “I’ve changed my perception of the lingering severity of race problems. We adopted a child from Ethiopia- maybe naive: didn’t think she’d have a different experience than our older kids. There wasn’t a school she wasn’t called the N word.”