Briggs: Dad gets first hole-in-one at Inverness. His son is the greenskeeper who cut the hole toledoblade.com/sports/golf/20… via The Blade

Jason Candle first spotted Emmanuel McNeil-Warren shooting around on the basketball court. That encounter put the talented safety on a path to an NFL career. My story on the latest Toledo-to-NFL standout: nytimes.com/athletic/67047…

How Tracy Wolfson has redefined the role of an NFL sideline reporter dlvr.it/TPGL5w

Tremendous story.

It’s almost like the debates about Indiana and A&M were stupid and pointless. And that will remain true regardless of the South Carolina-A&M result. Indiana has the Big Ten championship game. A&M has Texas and a potential SEC title game. It always gets sorted out.

Briggs: Mason Heintschel, proud and loyal son of Oregon, is living the 'dream' at Pitt toledoblade.com/sports/college… via The Blade

Briggs: Making sense of Dequan Finn's bizarre exit from Miami and MAC tiebreaker chaos toledoblade.com/sports/college… via The Blade

This proposed Big Ten equity deal, assuming all schools end up on board, would pay $190M each to UM, OSU and Penn State; $155M each to USC and Oregon; and $110M each to everyone else. One source from one of the everyone-else schools says, "Wait, so we're the same as Rutgers?!?"

the more conferences (and schools) openly court institutional capital investments, the louder this chatter is going to get in Congress....and not just from liberal democrats x.com/RossDellenger/…

ACC commissioner Jim Phillips regularly hits league events to connect with everyone from coaches and athletes to politicians and TV folks. He let the AP shadow his weekend trips in Pittsburgh and in NC. Here’s a look at those travels: apnews.com/article/acc-co…

There’s one copy, it’s locked in a safe at an undisclosed location and few people have seen it. It’s not an ancient manuscript. It’s the recipe for the sauce behind a chicken chain’s rise. 🔗 on.wsj.com/3JQHoCF

NEW: When Fans Turn to FOIA The Belligerent Beavs, the usually friendly Oregon State University–alum podcast, has grown increasingly adversarial—culminating in last week's GoFundMe that raised $2,600 for records request targeting The Beavs. Story for Sportico👇 sportico.com/leagues/colleg…

that reminds me what the $@(!#&! is the Big Ten doing my column: extrapointsmb.com/p/what-the-is-…

We let in weak district champions in high school football, we let in (almost) all conference champs in FCS/D2/D3, we let in sub-.500 NFL division champs (and sometimes the Atlanta Falcons). But in major college football, so many people treat this like a unique and grievous sin.

Rupert Murdoch’s Last Hurrah: Conquering Hollywood With the 'California Post' vanityfair.com/hollywood/stor…

Here’s a secret for Joe and Jane Fan: College sports travel isn’t as easy as booking flights and hotels, like your family vacation. It's coordinated chaos. Not at Youngstown State. Meet the woman behind every flight, bus ride and road-trip pizza party. nil-wire.com/p/travel-speci…

Next week's MAC schedule: Bowling Green-UMass at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. Toledo-Central Michigan—one of the biggest games of the conference season—at noon Saturday ... directly opposite OSU-UM...on ESPN+. Welcome to college football's Witness Protection League. toledoblade.com/sports/college…

Coins tell the story of us, and one of the world’s finest collections can be found in lower Manhattan. But almost no one ever sees these coins, so off to Toledo they go. My story, with typically excellent photos by ⁦Todd Heisler⁩. nytimes.com/2025/11/20/art… via @NYTimes

FOIAball obtained months of emails showing UCLA steering donors to the charity, which ostensibly helps at risk youth in LA, while earmarking the donations for football. Give the full story a read over at FOIAball. foiaball.com/p/ucla-nil-col…