Jon Wilner has been covering college sports for decades 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 the 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.
If the radical bill becomes law and schools are forced to pay athletes directly, Cal, Stanford and UCLA might reconsider their approach to major college football.
Senate Bill 1401, which is moving through Sacramento, carries massive budget implications for major college sports at California universities, according to an economic analysis.
The conference needs to show it's working to make the game safer. A multi-year study shows targeting penalties are connection to higher rates of head trauma.