Ben Portnoy

The Big 12 is thinking big picture, as the league began its second annual Big 12 Business Summit at the Omni Hotel in Las Colinas, Texas yesterday. This year's summit centers on driving revenue and creating value amid the ever-changing landscape of college athletics. Topics included...

UAB head coach Trent Dilfer’s voice boomed around the Blazers’ team meeting room. Dilfer, who won a Super Bowl as quarterback of the Baltimore Ravens, spent ample time ahead of the meeting chatting with higher-ups at Athletes.org, a budding player organization angling to...

The Big 12 is continuing its work with Sports Illustrated Swimsuit, the league announced on Friday. As part of the partnership that began in fall 2023, three Big 12 athletes -- UCF's Jas Williams (softball), Cincinnati's Jillian Hayes (basketball) and Houston's ...

Iowa State AD Jamie Pollard is saying the quiet part out loud. "Those with the gold make the rules," Pollard said in Des Moines, Iowa, on Thursday ahead of a stop on the Cyclone Tailgate Tour per a video posted to X, formerly Twitter. "If I...

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...