Prior to last season, when a University of Alabama football player was injured in a game, he would be rushed to the sidelines and instantly a flurry of cameras would surround him. Seemingly, the more a player would grimace at the amount of pain that they were in, the closer the cameras would come. So, […]
When surveying the college athletics landscape, what’s virtually always overlooked are those schools and student-athletes outside the power conferences and non-mainstream sports. That’s a reality entrenched amidst the enigmas of the NCAA… The newfound trend of VR startups venturing into elite college programs only highlights the disparity that exists, with the overall divide, seemingly, growing […]
This article is written by Lew Blaustein, who writes at the intersection of green and sports for his GreenSportsBlog. Tonight’s Alabama-Clemson College Football national championship game at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, AZ is the culmination of the 2nd season of the 4-team College Football Playoff system. Before the game kicks off, the 2nd […]
When Clemson takes on Alabama today for the College Football Playoff championship game, it marks only the second in history, but it is already a premiere sporting event. In its first year, the College Football Playoff (CFP) was awarded the 2015 Sports Business Award for Sports Event of the Year by Sports Business Journal. Going […]
“Mens sana in corpore sano” wrote Latin poet Juvenal over two thousand years ago. This theory of a sound mind in a sound body has found a practical application in many colleges in the US, where the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) regulates 89 different national championships yearly, with beach volleyball waiting to make its […]
