Ben Portnoy

This isn’t your father’s James Madison -- and new AD Matt Roan is well-aware of this. “I'm encouraged by people saying, ‘Hey, they're still air above us,’” Roan said. “There's still a ton of things that we can accomplish. But it's an exciting opportunity, and it's...

If you're looking for more postseason college football beyond the CFP, you may be waiting a while. As I detailed in the magazine this week, the hope for a Group of Five playoff of some kind feels like a pie in the sky amid the other...

Michigan is set to hire NFLPA VP/Consumer Products & Strategy Terése Whitehead as the school's first in-house “NIL Executive GM” in collaboration with Altius Sports Partners. An official announcement is expected today. Whitehead, a 1999 Michigan graduate, will spearhead the school's NIL program, leading the...

A pair of major players in the group licensing and NIL spaces are joining forces, as OneTeam Partners and Altius Sports Partners (ASP) are set to announce a multiyear agreement today. Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed. The partnership will include ASP educating school...

Jamey Chadwell knows these grounds well. It was only five months ago that Chadwell jetted to Phoenix with his then-undefeated Liberty squad to take on Oregon in the school’s first New Year’s Six Bowl appearance. In the new 12-team CFP...

The NCAA is at a crossroads. College sports’ governing body is in the midst of generational changes to the model it’s tasked with overseeing. That’s led to myriad court challenges to the current structure — including, of all things, discussions at a Dallas airport. ...

If Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark has his way, the CFP needs a few more slots. Speaking with reporters following the conclusion of the conference’s meetings Wednesday in Scottsdale, Ariz., Yormark noted he’d be in favor of the CFP expanding to a 14-team...

The hotel lobby at the Hyatt Regency bubbled with anxiousness. Ideas about the future percolated as administrators from the Big 12, Mountain West and more discussed the varying issues that face their respective conferences along with the existential crises facing the enterprise at-large. But...

The Fiesta Bowl is getting a new look -- sort of. The organization, which has long run two postseason games in the Fiesta Bowl and Guaranteed Rate Bowl, is set to announce a rebrand to the “Fiesta Sports Foundation” hopefully in Q4, CEO Erik Moses told me. ...