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.
What coronavirus? The Big Ten lifted its football suspension and will play in October. The Pac-12 must follow, even if it requires the California schools to change addresses.
The deal will provide the conference with the ability to test athletes the day of competition, clearing a major hurdle on the road to a return of football.
This version of restructuring, in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, is more subtle than previous editions but could create a southern wall of football, isolating the Big Ten and...
The conference announced a re-start date of Jan. 1, at the earliest, but it would reconsider the plan if conditions improve and the NCAA revises its calendar.
The Pac-12 did more than cancel the 2020 football season Tuesday; it shuttered competition in all sports for the calendar year. That includes college basketball. UCLA in the Wooden Legacy...
A spring football season is like so much else in the Covid-19 era — it’s like wearing masks and infection danger and the idea of playing college football this fall....
The Pac-12 is expected to cancel the 2020 football season as early as Tuesday, when the university presidents and chancellors convene to discuss the feasibility of playing amid the pandemic.
The conference is preparing to finalize a loan for its cash-strapped schools that could top out at $1 billion in the event the football season is canceled because of coronavirus.