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Jon Wilner
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.
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Pac-12 power ratings: Oregon’s last stand, Colorado’s big chance and the stretch run begins
Long ago, we identified a mid-February duel on the Oregon Trail as a potential catapult to the regular-season title. It’s just that Oregon was supposed to be the team on...

Colorado coaching search: Top candidates to replace Tucker
The Buffaloes are searching for their fifth head coach in the past 10 years after Mel Tucker abruptly took the money and ran to Michigan State.

Mel Tucker leaves Colorado in the dust: What it says about the state of the Pac-12
Stunning and not-so-stunning news out of Boulder in the dead of night: Mel Tucker reportedly is leaving Colorado for Michigan State. After one season. One 5-7 season. Our reaction …...

Combine debt for Cal, UCLA athletics tops $40 million in ’19
The Bears and Bruins had trouble balancing the books in the 2019 fiscal year, with the athletic departments reporting massive shortfalls that totaled $42.9 million.

National Signing Day: Top Pac-12 storylines and our annual anti-anxiety exercise
Most of the top prospects in the west signed in December, but several schools have spots available and are hoping to put the finishing touches on their latest recruiting classes.

Pac-12 revenue gap could exceed $100 million per school
The conference is in danger of falling further behind in media rights revenue, which could jeopardize its ability to compete with the SEC and the Big Ten over the next...

Pac-12 recap: Chaos continues as UCLA shows signs of life
The Bruins have won four of their past five and are in the middle of the jumbled mass of teams within one game of each other. The mayhem is akin...

The Pac-12 and BYU: An ideal football schedule partnership
The Cougars just extended their series with Stanford and are scheduled to face seven Pac-12 programs in the 2020s in matchups that check many boxes for both sides.

Pac-12 football 2020: Early look at the schedule strength (and weakness)
The toughest schedule in the conference, and perhaps the country, belongs to USC, which has bookend showdowns against Alabama and Notre Dame and few spots spots in between.

Pac-12 recap: UW’s collapse, ASU’s thriller, the race ahead
Washington's midseason collapse is connected to Quade Green's absence, but the issues run deeper than losing their point guard: The offense wasn't efficient enough to begin with.