College Sports

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has announced that New Orleans will stage its Final Four end-of-season men’s basketball showpiece in 2022, having elected to forgo the traditional bidding process for the event.

The Big 12 has voted down plans to expand its membership, with the US college sports conference opting to retain its current roster of 10 schools.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the body that governs US college sport, has reassigned hosting rights to seven championship events that were stripped from North Carolina due to the state’s laws on gender equality and civil rights.

Learfield Communications, which specialises in US college sport, is set to be acquired by Atairos Group after the private investment firm entered into a definitive agreement to purchase the agency.

The U.S. Supreme Court has today (Monday) opted against pursuing the ongoing legal battle between a group of former college athletes and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in a high-profile case concerning the billions of dollars of revenue that universities gain from their American football and basketball programmes.

The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) has become the latest US collegiate sports organisation to remove championship events from North Carolina in response to the state’s law that restricts rights for gay and transgender people.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the body that governs US college sport, has stripped North Carolina of its hosting rights to seven championship events during the 2016-17 academic year, citing the state’s laws on gender equality and civil rights as the reason for its decision.

American broadcasting conglomerate Sinclair is aiming to make it big by thinking small with a new college network.