Michigan Hockey Parts Ways with Coach Mel Pearson
The University of Michigan men's hockey team will no longer be coached by Mel Pearson. Last Friday, Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel said the decision "has been weighed heavily and for some time," according to a report from the Associated P...
DI Board of Directors Adopts Student-Athlete Benefit Legislation
The Division I Board of Directors adopted the first group of Transformation Committee recommendations aimed at allowing schools to provide more benefits to student-athletes. While generally supportive of elements of the transfer package, the board to...
Texas Tech Announces $200M Jones AT&T Stadium Upgrades
Texas Tech recently announced its largest investment into the Red Raider football program to date as the athletics department unveiled plans for an approximate $200 million facilities project to construct a new south end zone building to Jones AT&...
Ecore Revolutionizes Realistic Wood Offerings with First Performance Vinyl Tile
The future of performance vinyl tile (PVT) has arrived with the introduction of Heritage Motivate, a new high-performance and visually stunning flooring surface from Ecore, a company that transforms reclaimed materials into high-performance products ...
Sportsbox AI to Develop Mobile Motion Capture Coaching Tech
Sportsbox, an artificial intelligence (AI) coaching startup, has closed a $5.5 million seed funding round that will allow it to continue the development of its single-camera 3D motion capture technology and expand into more sports. A recent story ...
Texas Tech Football & Women’s Basketball Teams Sign NIL Deals
Every single player on the 2022-23 Texas Tech football team was recently signed to a Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) one-year, $25,000 contract from a local collective called the Matador Club. The deal will be for all 85 scholarship players plus 1...
MPFL Repair vs. MPFL Reconstruction for Patellar Instability
Results presented here showed patients who underwent medial patellofemoral ligament (MPFL) repair for patellar instability had a higher failure rate compared with MPFL reconstruction at long-term follow-up. A recent report from Healio.com highligh...
How Do NFL Teams Handle Training in the Summer Heat?
Football is in full swing — not just at the high school and collegiate levels, but also at the professional level. But while football players push themselves to train in the hot summer heat, they also must be mindful of the potential for heat-re...
SIU names Tim Leonard as its 16th director of intercollegiate athletics
Southern Illinois University Carbondale announced its 16th full-time director of intercollegiate athletics last week. Tim Leonard is a 30-year veteran of athletic administration, and most recently, served for eight years (2013-21) as the director ...
NCAA Hands Out 18 Violations to Tennessee Football Program
The NCAA has officially charged Tennessee's football program with 18 Level I alleged rules violations for impermissible recruiting benefits under former head coach Jeremy Pruitt Among other allegations, Pruitt is accused of providing about $9,000 ...