College Sports

Alabama was voted No. 1 in the preseason USA Today coaches' poll released Monday, with Ohio State second and defending national champion Georgia third.

Four years ago, the Yavapai College Executive Leadership Team decided it was time to build a stronger and more tight-knit relationship with the surrounding community.

The NCAA earned praise last year when it agreed to pay referees at its men’s and women’s basketball tournaments equally. The gesture only cost about $100,000, a tiny fraction of the roughly $900 million networks pay annually to broadcast March Madness.

Hoops aficionados everywhere would agree that the University of Arizona Wildcats has the best basketball factory in the state of Arizona. The proof is in this year’s NBA draft.

Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren talked Tuesday about the conference being bold and aggressive as college sports goes through a period of sweeping change and left the door open for more expansion after the league added Southern California and UCLA.

Tony Elliott waited years before he felt it was the right moment to leave the Clemson staff and become a head coach. The timing gave him plenty of company as he takes over at Virginia.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is demanding an explanation from UCLA officials about their move to the Big Ten Conference.

The Yavapai College Athletics Department has announced the resignation of Ryan Cougill as the head coach of the Yavapai College baseball team.

The Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade could have recruiting ramifications at universities in Arizona, which has a pre-Roe abortion ban on the books and where clinics have stopped performing abortion services since the June 24 ruling.

New Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark declared the league “open for business," saying that while nothing is imminent all options will be considered as he takes over with conference realignment again shaking college sports.

The Pac-12 can make a case as the most successful conference in collegiate athletics, amassing more than 500 NCAA championships while leading the nation in titles 56 of the past 62 years.

UCLA and Southern California are planning to leave the Pac-12 for the Big Ten Conference in a seismic change that could lead to another major realignment of college sports.

After nine successful years at the helm, Yavapai College volleyball coach Zach Shaver has resigned to accept the head-coaching position at Laramie County Community College in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

The last team to get into the NCAA baseball tournament was the last team standing.

The number of women competing at the highest level of college athletics continues to rise along with an increasing funding gap between men’s and women’s sports programs, according to an NCAA report examining the 50th anniversary of Title IX.

Dylan DeLucia scattered four hits in his first shutout for Mississippi, Kevin Graham’s run-scoring double in the fourth held up and the Rebels advanced to the College World Series finals with a 2-0 victory over Arkansas on Thursday.

After a comprehensive nationwide search, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University announced in a news release that it has appointed Phil Hess as its new athletics director at the Prescott Campus.

Arizona's Bennedict Mathurin, Duke's A.J. Griffin and Wisconsin's Johnny Davis spent the past season showing off their NBA potential in front of big crowds at the college level, including in the NCAA Tournament.

Jaden Ivey erupted in his second college season into an All-American with explosive athleticism and scoring ability.

Yavapai College softball shortstop Lovey Kepa’a was named NJCAA Co-Player of the Year for the 2022 season, the association announced Thursday morning, June 9.