College Sports

A new UNC System policy could bring changes to how universities join and leave athletic conferences.

While it comes with its critics and concerns, sports betting could benefit 10 UNC System schools, including UNC Pembroke, in a big way. Once betting begins, those schools – the 10 with the smallest athletic department budgets – will split 20% of the yearly tax revenue from legal gambling in North Carolina.

A federal lawsuit filed by a group of states alleges the NCAA’s transfer rule for college athletes violates antitrust law. The lawsuit filed in West Virginia challenges the NCAA’s authority to impose a one-year delay in the eligibility of certain athletes who transfer.

Stanford and Cal are the ninth and 10th schools to inform the Pac-12 that this school year will be their last in the conference, eight of those departures have come in the last two weeks.

The Battling Bishops reminisce on the championship-winning season that led them to play in the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2011.

NC Central made a goal-line stand on Jackson State’s first overtime possession to preserve the victory. Tight end Hayden Hagler’s drop on third down from the 1-yard-line set up an incompletion by Jackson State quarterback Shedeur Sanders to end the game.

Next year, students at five universities in the UNC System will pay more to fund sports programs. Western Carolina University's athletics director and student body president say the fee increase was necessary to fix crumbling athletic facilities.

The Atlantic Coast Conference says it is now looking at options for relocating its headquarters outside of its longtime home in Greensboro, North Carolina.

North Carolina State baseball players who were one win away from playing for a national championship reacted with anger and confusion to their team’s removal from the College World Series because of COVID-19 protocols.

Terrell Tatum’s fifth-inning home run spoiled a dominant performance by national strikeout leader Jack Leiter and allowed North Carolina State to take control of its College World Series bracket with a 1-0 win over Vanderbilt.