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NC State defeated Texas, 4-2, on Friday night to advance to the Elite Eight. This is the Pack’s first Elite Eight appearance since 2023. NC State entered the tournament as the No. 8 national seed, and Texas was No. 9. With the win, NC State heads to the next round to face top-seeded Georgia in […]
Mickey Heinecken, a record-setting coach at Middlebury College for 28 years and the founder of the Vermont Chapter of the National Football Foundation, was one of 13 recent inductees into the Vermont Sports Hall of Fame. The hall inducted its 13th class on April 25, 2026 in South Burlington, Vermont.
We've gone another year with Seattle remaining as the only MLS club to win a modern Concacaf Championship, but what does that mean for fantasy?
The Ohio State men’s basketball team added depth to the frontcourt and elevated the already urgent need for a team pronunciation guide on Friday, getting a commitment from 2026 center Vuk Lazarevic, per Joe Tipton and confirmed by a source close to the Ohio State program. A 7-foot-1, 200-pound center, Lazarevic played his senior year of high […]
Nebraska football may be in a quiet stretch on the field, but recruiting never sleeps — especially in the NIL era. The modern recruiting landscape moves fast, changes constantly, and can turn on a dime with the right offer or opportunity. For Matt Rhule and his staff, the challenge is finding the balance between recruiting […]
30 former Ohio State football players, including 12 from the NFL, join a lawsuit against the school alleging they were sexually assaulted.
Bisi Owens *Click name for official Purdue Bio Bio Position: Wide Receiver Height: 6’4” Weight: 215 Hometown: Cooksville, Maryland High School: Glenelg High School (Glenelg, Maryland) Recruiting Class: 2022 Former Team: Penn Eligibility Remaining: 1 Season – Redshirt Senior High School Recruiting Rankings: Unrated / Unranked Transfer Portal Rankings: 3*(86.5) – National Rank: 789 – Wide Receiver: 114 High School High School […]
WSU beat Air Force 11-2 Friday afternoon.
College football’s offseason has one volume setting lately, and it’s maximum outrage. The likely expansion to a 24-team playoff has people on social media declaring existential crises, mourning the death of the regular season, and generally behaving as if someone just announced the sport is being cancelled. Most of it is misguided noise — and […]
Penn State has the kickoff times set for its first two conference games of the 2026 season. The Nittany Lions will meet Wisconsin to open Big Ten play at 3:30 p.m., Saturday, September 26. Penn State currently owns a six-game win streak over the Badgers, dating back to 2012. Wisconsin will be looking to bounce […]
One month post-transfer portal opening, the dust has settled and the rapid pace of the news cycled has slowed down to a trickle. The first three weeks of April were just a constant flow of breaking news, telling people which players were opting to transfer and where those players were going — sometimes on the […]
The Wisconsin Badgers were a top contender for four-star in-state forward Donovan Davis, but the 2027 recruit committed to the Iowa State Cyclones earlier this week. Davis had long been linked to Iowa State, which was the perceived favorite in his recruitment for some time, but the Badgers were in that final mix alongside Nebraska, […]
Nuku Mafi *Click on name for official Purdue Bio Bio Position: Tackle Height: 6’4” Weight: 330 Hometown: Rose Park, Utah High School: West (Salt Lake City, Utah) Recruiting Class: 2024 Former Team: Oklahoma State Eligibility Remaining: 3 Seasons – Redshirt Sophomore High School Recruiting Rankings: 3*(85.79) – National Rank: 1067 – Interior Offensive Line Rank: 100 Transfer Portal Rankings: 3*(86) – National […]
The Miami Dolphins began their rookie minicamp on Friday — hosting all 13 picks from the 2026 NFL Draft, plus a slew of undrafted free agent signings and camp invitees. One of those invitees is former Boston College and Florida State quarterback Tommy Castellanos — however, he’s not throwing balls in Miami Gardens today. He’s […]
Each week, we here at Mountain West Connection will briefly preview every series going on in the conference, detailing how each team is going into the series and a key item to note that we feel will dictate the winner. Afterwards, if there are any non-conference series going on, we will go through each series […]
Iowa’s road game at Washington has been moved to Friday, Oct. 9, from Husky Stadium in Seattle.
Floyd Mayweather made an appearance for press conference for his upcoming exhibition fight against Mike Zambidis on June 27, but naturally what most observers are more interested in is where things stand with a supposed rematch with Manny Pacquiao. It had been reported and even announced by Netflix that the rematch was on, but Mayweather […]
Who’s the Pack playing? Opponent: Stanford Mascot: Nightmare Fuel Tree | School Location: Lelandville, CA | Conference: ACC 2026 Record: 23-22 (10-14, T-10th) | 2026 RPI Rank: 116 2025 Record: 27-25 (11-19 13th) | 2025 RPI Rank: 52 2024 Record: 22-33 (11-19, 8th Pac-12) | 2024 RPI Rank: 157 When? Where? How do I watch? Location: Klein Field at Sunken […]
Lionel Messi has shared his thoughts on World Cup 2026 as he bids to retain the trophy he won with Argentina last time out in Qatar. There will obviously be a host of Barcelona players at the World Cup, with Spain one of the favorites heading into the tournament. Lamine Yamal is expected to be […]
Only two regular season weekends remain for No. 20 Ole Miss to make its case for the postseason, and the final home series with No. 9 Texas A&M might be the biggest weekend of the season. Currently the Rebels (32-17, 12-12 SEC) sit at No. 13 in the RPI rankings, which in theory is a […]
From now until preseason camp starts in August, Land-Grant Holy Land will be writing articles around a different theme every week. This week is all about hype. What are you most hyped about heading into the 2026-27 season? You can catch up on all of the Theme Week content here and all of our ”Hype Week” articles here. Jeremiah […]
As he prepares for his first season in Syracuse, Bryan Blair is reshaping his leadershup team and we have three reports of senior staff joining the Orange. CollegeAD reported that Toledo Deputy AD/COO/SWA Nicole Harris is expected to join Blair in Syracuse. Harris has been with Toledo since 2023 and was listed as instrumental in […]
Detroit Lions football under Dan Campbell has largely been rooted in trench play. For a team that boasts its physicality and grittiness, it makes sense for them to develop an identity that starts with the offensive and defensive lines. As they’ve said from the beginning, it all starts with running the ball and stopping the […]
Hello again, Group of Six western football fans. The month of May presses on. Spring ball is finished, summer workouts haven’t started yet. This is the quiet month of the college football calendar. The Mountain West is set to split this summer with the “departing five” leaving to create the reformed Pac-12. The Mountain West […]
With the news that the men’s and women’s NCAA Basketball Tournaments will be expanding to 76-team fields, plus the start of the collegiate softball postseason with baseball’s Selection Monday only a couple of weeks away, I was thinking about all the different forms that collegiate sports’ postseasons take. There’s football, with its dozens of essentially […]