Mountain West awaits Big 12 expansion decision
Las Vegas • If anybody has figured out Big 12 expansion, call Craig Thompson. He would like to know, too. Thompson is the long-time commissioner of the Mountain West Conference, which has a handful of...
View ArticleMountain West faces new questions over football expansion
Las Vegas • With football realignment once again lurking in the background, the Mountain West Conference holds its annual preseason football media event this week at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Players and...
View ArticleMountain West braced for possible changes
LAS VEGAS — This is the political season after all, so flopping on the issues isn’t new. A month ago, the Big 12 decided it wasn’t going to...
View ArticleMountain West commissioner braced for wave of conference realignment
LAS VEGAS - Craig Thompson anticipates the three-year calm of conference stability to give way to a storm of activity. As to how that might impact the Mountain West, the commissioner smiled and...
View ArticleMountain West Conference needs to win more nonleague games
As Power 5 and Group of 5 started to become popular terms to signify the haves and the have-nots of college football, the same process was going on between the two groups themselves. Reputation means...
View ArticleESPN, ACC Announce Launch of ACC Network; Syracuse Athletics Stands to...
(Source: Syracuse University) The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and ESPN today announced the launch of the ACC Network. ACC Commissioner John Swofford and ESPN President John Skipper, speaking at the...
View ArticleAthletics introduces Mountaineer Legends Society (West Virginia University)
(Source: West Virginia University) MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - The West Virginia University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics will introduce the Mountaineer Legends Society this fall at Milan Puskar...
View ArticleMorning links: National college football writers take a look at BYU's Big 12...
From bloggers to message boards to well-respected national writers, just about everyone has expressed an opinion on who the Big 12 should add since the announcement that the conference would explore...
View ArticlePossible FSU vs. West Virginia game in 2020 has no affect on discussions for...
The Jacksonville Sports Council remains in active talks with Florida State to bring a non-conference football game to EverBank Field in 2019, despite reports on Wednesday that the Seminoles will play...
View ArticleSouthern Conference football looking to bounce back
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — Chattanooga coach Russ Huesman feels the Southern Conference took an unwarranted hit on its reputation a few years back, one it is ready to wipe away with a stable, improving...
View ArticleWestern Conference Pressure Cooker (Real Salt Lake)
(Source: Real Salt Lake) Real Salt Lake is entering the final 10 matches of the 2016 MLS regular season. The intensity turns up a notch and every point carries a little more weight. This according to...
View ArticlePotential expansion candidates for the Big 12, BYU to Tulane
Commissioner Bob Bowlsby has referred to what the Big 12 is about to step into as it moves toward expansion as a seller's market. The conference is selling salvation for two to four schools that are...
View ArticleColorado College women's soccer picked 6th, Air Force 10th in Mountain West...
The 12 Mountain West Conference women’s soccer coaches selected San Diego State as the favorite to win the 2016...
View ArticleFirst-place Kings pushing for playoff berth
With three regular season games remaining, the Champion City Kings are in the playoff hunt for the first time in the team’s three-year existence. The first-place Kings (16-11) have one regular season...
View Article‘Photogate’ is no big deal, BSU, UNM say
Neither coaches nor players from either team took the bait. Boise State linebacker Ben Weaver said he felt he and his teammates should take UNM’s postgame actions as a compliment. The Broncos had lost...
View ArticleBoise State, San Diego State at top, but rest of MWC open
Last year proved the Mountain West can be more than just Boise State and everyone else when it comes to the conference title race, as evidenced by San Diego State winning its first outright conference...
View ArticleMcBroom Named Chair of NCAA Division II Football Committee (West Texas A&M...
(Source: West Texas A&M University) Aug. 4, 2016 CONTACT: Kit Strief, 806-651-4430, kstrief@wtamu.edu CANYON, Texas-West Texas A&M Director of Athletics Michael McBroom has been named...
View ArticleCFB PREVIEW: Boise State, San Diego State at top, but rest of MWC open
Last year proved the Mountain West can be more than just Boise State and everyone else when it comes to the conference title race, as evidenced by San Diego State winning its first outright conference...
View ArticleBig 12 reportedly to begin video conferences with 17 candidates
So when University of Oklahoma president David Boren said earlier this summer he had been contacted by 25 schools interested in becoming Big 12 expansion candidates, there must have been eight not...
View ArticleBig 12 job fair reaches embarrassing stage
The Big 12's embarrassing member search continues with a series of video conferences. Commissioner Bob Bowlsby, reports ESPN, will hear presentations from 17 schools. Seventeen. Bowlsby will ride...
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