The seeming inability of leaders in college athletics to satisfactorily resolve issues related to athlete compensation so disillusioned a Los Angeles Times sports columnist that he took up his pen in an attempt to stimulate action. That was in November 1939. In Major League Baseball, ...
The Cruz-Cantwell “Protect College Sports Act of 2026” is pitched as a bipartisan rescue mission for a collegiate athletics system already gasping under NIL chaos, antitrust pressure and conference realignment absurdity. The recent Congressional hearing framed the bill as a way to ...
Editor’s note: Retired Mirror sports editor Jim Lane wrote this column after his dad, Kermit Lane, passed away in 1987. It has been reprinted every year since on Father’s Day weekend. Jim passed away on Jan. 5 of this year at the age of 85. As a tribute to him, his father and the Lane family, we’re publishing his column for a final time today. Sunday is Father’s Day. It’s a chance to tell your favorite guy thanks for all he’s been and done for you over the years. It’s usually celebrated with a small gift, perhaps a shirt or tie or wallet. In many cases, few words are ...
This NBA playoff season I have attended the play-in games in Charlotte and Miami, the first two games of the Eastern Conference final in New York, Game 6 of the Western Conference final in San Antonio, Game 7 in Oklahoma City and Games 1 and 2 of The Finals in San Antonio. Game 2 was the 60th ...
NEW YORK — Sitting among a pint-raising crowd at a Manhattan soccer bar on the first day of the World Cup, George Carson described himself as a huge soccer fan who hopes to catch all 104 games of the global tournament. But on Saturday? “We got to watch the Knicks,” he said. In most ...
Christmas has been arriving early and often for Nebraska head football coach Matt Rhule. Last October, Rhule received a two-year contract extension from athletic director Troy Dannen during the stretch when nearly every hot property and perceived good fit was linked to the open Penn State ...
