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• Athleisure Beauty Is Over. Welcome To Beauty’s High-Performance Era September 9, 2026 6:58 am In the seven years since Lululemon made a short-lived foray into Sephora with a line pitched as self-care, girls’ participation in athletics has reached an all-time high, women’s professional sports have surged into the mainstream, women are downing …
• Adapti, Inc. Discusses Growth and Revenue Strategies with The MarketGems Podcast September 8, 2026 5:24 pm TOWSON, MD / ACCESS Newswire / September 8, 2026 / Adapti, Inc. (OTCID:ADTI)("the Company"), a company developing AI technology to integrate sports and influencer management, was featured on the MarketGems Podcast, hosted by Baystone …
• Primetime Invests in Newbridge Marketing, Bringing Experiential and College Marketing Into Its Growing Platform September 8, 2026 3:22 pm The deal builds on Primetime's recent moves into youth sports and stadium technology, creating one connected way for brands to reach young consumers NEW YORK, NY, September 8, 2026 (EZ Newswire) -- Newbridge Marketing, the Lake Oswego, Oregon-based …
• An insurance company bet on LSU to win big. Is it tied to Lane Kiffin's bonus? September 4, 2026 3:35 pm On Aug. 13, an insurance company placed a series of enormous transactions on Kalshi predicting LSU to have an amazing season. In fact, if the Tigers win the national championship, those wagers will pay off to the tune of $3 million. Which just happens to …
• College Sports’ Problem With the Substitution Effect September 4, 2026 3:15 pm Today’s guest column is from professors John Cairney and Rick Burton. As most baseball and softball fans know, the challenge for many managers is knowing when to replace the starter with someone from the bullpen. In basketball or soccer, it’s subbing in a …
• Brotherly love: Kaden and Koltin Sieracki relishing chance to play together on Baylor offensive line September 4, 2026 5:21 am Thanksgiving dinners in the Sieracki household have always been an event. When the three brothers — Kyle, Kaden, and Koltin — were younger, their grandma and all of her family who supported Texas A&M would come over, and their house would be filled …
• SEC Sues LSU and Lane Kiffin Over Recruiting NFL Players September 3, 2026 10:17 pm One of the main problems facing power-conference college sports is NCAA member schools—and particularly coaches—urging and incentivizing ineligible players to sue for court orders blocking the NCAA and conferences from enforcing eligibility rules.  The SEC …
• Zion Elee was born for the spotlight. He’ll enter it with Maryland football. September 3, 2026 6:31 am Before Zion Elee’s senior year at Saint Frances Academy in 2025, the football team voted in five players as captains. Elee desperately wanted to be one. He campaigned to teammates like a presidential candidate would, Saint Frances general manager Lamar …
• SEC Eligibility Fight Reaches Louisiana Court as Greg Sankey Defends Conference Authority September 2, 2026 10:56 pm The Southeastern Conference has now placed into a Louisiana court filing the question it spent the last week trying to answer through rules, memoranda and threatened punishment. Not whether the SEC can make an eligibility rule. It plainly can. Not whether …
• ‘BYU’s personality is his personality’: The LJ Martin many BYU fans may not know September 2, 2026 9:16 pm When he was a little boy growing up on the western edge of Texas, LJ Martin didn’t watch cartoons or Disney movies like most kids his age. As the first child born to Genevieve and John Martin — who met at Western New Mexico University across the state …
• OUTERLINE: Pogačar’s Vuelta Crash Changes Everything September 2, 2026 4:04 pm Tadej Pogačar’s Vuelta crash completely upended the 2026 race, forcing the overwhelming favourite to abandon with a fractured collarbone, a stable C7 vertebra fracture and a concussion. In a single moment, the Vuelta lost its global superstar, Enric Mas …
• Louisiana Illuminator: NIL insiders in Louisiana report unrealistic expectations, exhausted donors September 1, 2026 6:39 pm GRAMBLING — Athletics and campus administrators from Louisiana colleges convened last week to tackle one of their biggest challenges: How to deal with the downstream financial effects in the new era of paying student-athletes. Since 2021, the NCAA has …
• Prep Rally: Here are the football players off to the best starts August 31, 2026 1:25 pm Hi, and welcome to another edition of Prep Rally. I’m Eric Sondheimer. Let’s examine players off to great starts to the high school football season. Get our high school sports newsletter Prep Rally is devoted to the SoCal high school sports experience, …
• “Prepared”: SEC Takes Public Stand on Eligibility Fight After Taking a Step Back to Comply With Court Order August 31, 2026 5:52 am The Southeastern Conference recently admitted that it will follow a court order allowing former pro players back onto college football fields. But don’t take this as a surrender. SEC leaders made it crystal clear that while they are stepping back for now, …
• Who are college football’s greatest villains? August 31, 2026 12:31 am Every drama needs a villain — a Voldemort or a Darth Vader — and there is no shortage of them in college football as we begin the 2026 season. At times, it seems as if some were trying to win the role, doing everything they could to convince people to …
• Why Syracuse can’t attract the students it needs to pay the bills August 30, 2026 10:52 am When he was the director of international student services at Syracuse University, Juan Tavares received a regular Saturday email from the dean of admissions reporting the tally of student applications, acceptances and enrollment deposits. Syracuse …
• Which college football coaches' seats are the hottest? Where Belichick, Riley and others stand August 28, 2026 9:38 am Last college football season featured an extremely chaotic coaching carousel that opened up some of the biggest jobs in the industry. The Athletic had a dozen Power 4 conference coaches listed in our 2025 preseason hot seat temperature check column, and …
• SEC Eligibility Fight Raises a Bigger Question: What Defines a Pro? August 28, 2026 1:15 am By Todd Horne | Vice President & Executive Editor, Tiger Rag Who’s ready for college football season? Nine days from now, No. 11 LSU opens the Lane Kiffin era against Clemson in Tiger Stadium. College GameDay will be in Baton Rouge for its 500th road …
• College Football’s $50 Million Era: Inside Roster Spending Explosion August 27, 2026 10:57 pm Coaches are saying it. Personnel staff members are saying it. Agents are saying it. Athletic directors are saying it. If there’s one more thing you’ve learned about college football before the 2026 season starts, it’s the price to field a team is going up …
• LSU is just begging to get kicked out of the SEC | Opinion August 27, 2026 4:21 pm Updated Aug. 27, 2026, 11:14 a.m. CT LSU has made a series of controversial decisions since the end of the 2025 football season. The university abstained from an SEC vote to confirm penalties for signing former professional athletes. These actions have …
• TCU Running Back Jeremy Payne Joins Game Day Private Jets’ Athlete Ambassador Roster August 27, 2026 3:23 pm HOUSTON, TX, UNITED STATES, August 27, 2026 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- Game Day Private Jets (“Game Day”), the private travel platform built for college athletics, today announced Jeremy Payne as the newest student-athlete added to the Game Day …
• Recognize the names? Garnett, Ewing, Rondo, Spears star in NCAA volleyball August 27, 2026 12:52 pm Kevin Garnett scoots closer to his computer screen and stares intently at me through Zoom. Then he looks off to the side. Like he's trying to conjure the specific memory his daughter shared with me earlier. I tell the NBA legend that Kapri told me it …
• College sports programs get more creative than ever to generate revenue August 27, 2026 3:57 am KNOXVILLE — You've heard about the patches coming soon to a college football jersey near you. You've seen the corporate logos cropping up on playing fields from one side of the country to the other. Talent fees on season tickets, conference-based …
• A series of court rulings turned college football upside down. What's next? August 26, 2026 11:35 pm Updated Aug. 26, 2026, 7:49 p.m. ET Recent legal rulings have allowed some former college football players to return from the NFL for an extra year of eligibility. The NCAA's new "five-for-five" eligibility model, along with court decisions, …
• College sports being shaped legal challenges to eligibility. Where does it lead? August 26, 2026 10:42 pm Several formal college football players have made unexpected returns to campus from NFL training camps following legal rulings that paved the way for veteran players to receive an additional year of eligibility, igniting the latest flashpoint during the …
• CELSIUS® Expands 2026 Athlete Roster with Four College Football Standouts August 26, 2026 3:35 pm BOCA RATON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 26, 2026-- CELSIUS®, the premium, lifestyle energy drink brand, today announced Dante Moore, Bryce Underwood, Chris Henry Jr. and Cam Coleman as the core athletes of its 2026 name, image and likeness (NIL) football …
• The 26 Biggest Story Lines Ahead of the 2026 College Football Season August 26, 2026 3:06 pm Getty Images/Ringer illustration These final excruciating days before the kickoff of the 2026 college football season have heightened into the kind of rampant legal and political maneuvering that dominated the rest of the offseason. More than any …
• 'The enterprise cannot afford to sit idly by until the next Congress is seated in 2027' August 26, 2026 12:43 am To the dismay of Senate co-sponsors Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., last-minute challenges to the Protect College Sports Act kept the bipartisan bill from being called for a vote before the session ended earlier this month. Samuel Corum…
• $50 million rosters. $5 million QBs. What it costs to build a college football contender August 25, 2026 12:56 pm Pete Bevacqua provided the unofficial bullhorn for spending on college football rosters in early June. Appearing on Capitol Hill, Notre Dame’s athletic director declared in public testimony “there’s this misnomer that there’s a (salary) cap. There is no …
• Michigan pulled back the curtain on its football program. Here's why August 25, 2026 10:52 am Aug. 25, 2026, 5:16 a.m. ET The Harley-Davidson motorcycle Kyle Whittingham rides is about as classic an American two-wheeler as it gets. The approach Whittingham is taking to peel back the curtain on his new football program, storied-but-scandal-ridden …