Jon WilnerĀ has been covering college sports for decadesĀ and is an AP top-25 football and basketball voter as well as a Heisman Trophy voter. He was named Beat Writer of the Year in 2013 by the Football Writers Association of America for his coverage of theĀ Pac-12, won first place for feature writing in 2016 in the Associated Press Sports Editors writing contest and is a five-time APSE honoree.
Oregon is the team to beat with its combination of incoming talent and returning leadership, in the form of point guard Payton Pritchard. But watch out for UCLA.
The Ducks are three wins from an undefeated, untied conference season, an accomplishment not seen since Chip Kelly was at the controls of the Oregon offense.
It¶¶Ņõap not yet official, but USC is expected to hire Mike Bohn as its new athletic director, according to published reports and confirmed by the Hotline. (And if the process...
*** My weekly conversation with Docās Sports handicapper Raphael Esparza (@VSIdocsports) is available below. Esparza will join me each week during the season to discuss all the Pac-12 games ā¦...
* The final installment of our series on commissioner Larry Scott’s tenure at the helm of the conference (links to earlier articles at bottom) … It was the Pac-10 when...
Let¶¶Ņõap remove the NCAA-speak from the Board of Governors’ vote to provide athletes with the opportunity to be compensated for the use of their name, image and likeness. Hereās what...
The playoff chatter in Pac-12 country involves not only Oregon but Utah, too. Each has one loss, is ranked in the top 10 and would be in the CFP discussion...
Insta-reaction to Pac-12 developments on (and off) the field … 1. That didn’t stink. For all the upsets, for all the parity and bizarre finishes, the Pac-12 went two months...