
Stewart Mandel
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Stewart Mandel
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Husband. Dad. I write about college football for The Athletic and talk about college football on The Audible. Tips? Compliments? Email [email protected].


The Big Ten disbursed a record $1.37 billion to its 18 members. For the first time, schools that qualified for the CFP received higher shares based on advancement than the other vested colleagues. @TheAthletic nytimes.com/athletic/72471…








The NBA has disclosed to its 30 GMs a singular new anti-tanking reform that expands the draft lottery to 16 teams, flattens odds, and have a relegation zone where the bottom 3 teams are penalized with fewer lottery balls for the No. 1 pick. ESPN details: espn.com/nba/story/_/id…

Sources: The NCAA has initiated the final steps to expand the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball tournaments to 76 teams. The expansion is on track to be formalized in the upcoming weeks, with mid-May as the target. The 76-team tournaments begin next year. espn.com/mens-college-b…



The NIL era is flipping the NBA Draft on its head. Only 71 players entered the 2026 NBA Draft, per the NBA. Down from 106 last year and a peak of 363 in 2021. That's the lowest early-entrant total since 2003. College basketball stars are staying in school, overwhelmingly.






