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7:12 PM ET Missouri and athletic director Jim Sterk announced on Monday that they have mutually agreed he will step down once the school is able to find his replacement. Sterk’s announcement comes during a turbulent time in collegiate athletics as Missouri’s former Big 12 brethren Oklahoma and Texas consider a move to the SEC.

Getty Images Missouri athletic director Jim Sterk will step down from his position after a “mutual” agreement was reached, the school announced on Monday. Sterk, who has served as Missouri’s athletic director since 2016 when he took over for Mack Rhoades after Rhoades left for the same position at Baylor, will remain in the position

The inevitable became reality on Monday, as Texas and Oklahoma began the formal process of unwinding from the Big 12 conference and joining the SEC. It marks the first official step in a potentially seismic move that solidifies the SEC as the strongest conference in college sports and will likely send the other power conferences

Big revelation from the Tokyo Olympics: turns out robots are coming to replace the jobs of NBA sharpshooters, too.  At halftime of the USA-France men’s basketball game, a robot rolled out to midcourt and proceeded to start draining long jumpers like some nightmare-future version of Steph Curry. From the logo: Oh, but basketball robot isn’t

STORRS, Conn. — The two-year probation imposed on UConn men’s basketball for NCAA violations under former coach Kevin Ollie has ended. The governing body informed the school it has met all NCAA regulations, the university said. “We will continue to be committed to adhering to the highest standard of NCAA compliance,” athletic director David Benedict

Kansas basketball coach Bill Self revealed on Friday that he has tested positive for COVID-19 and has entered into a period of isolation after contracting the virus. Self said he is fully vaccinated and “feeling pretty good right now.”  Self had minor symptoms Thursday and decided to test out of an abundance of caution before he hit

5:12 PM ET Associated Press STORRS, Conn. — The two-year probation imposed on UConn men’s basketball for NCAA violations under former coach Kevin Ollie has ended. The governing body informed the school it has met all NCAA regulations, the university said Friday. “We will continue to be committed to adhering to the highest standard of

1:24 PM ET As the rest of the powerbrokers in college athletics monitor the unfolding story of Oklahoma and Texas inching closer towards a possible membership in the SEC, new Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff told ESPN on Friday that his conference isn’t actively seeking new members, but they’re open to discussions with potential candidates. “I

The Pac-12 isn’t looking to expand. But it’s also not saying no to the idea of expansion either. Consider new commissioner George Kliavkoff open to sales pitches. The commissioner is in his first weeks on the job after replacing Larry Scott and told the San Jose Mercury News in the wake of the reports that

The 12-player roster for the 2020 U.S. men’s Olympic basketball team in Tokyo features three former Kentucky Wildcats and a pair of UCLA Bruins in addition to one representative from each of Duke, Michigan State, Nevada, Texas, Texas A&M, Syracuse and Weber State. You can see the complete Team USA men’s basketball roster below. The Olympic basketball competition begins

After initially planning on a game, then having those plans fall through, preseason national title contenders Gonzaga and UCLA have finally figured things out once more and agreed to play each other next season, sources told CBS Sports.  The two teams — which rank first and second in CBS Sports’ Early Top 25 And 1 –

2:45 PM ET Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Commonwealth University men’s basketball coach Mike Rhoades has signed a two-year contract extension that will keep him on the Rams’ sideline through the 2026-27 season. Athletic director and vice president Ed McLaughlin made the announcement Thursday. Rhoades has compiled an 80-43 record in four years at

USATSI Alabama dropped in the CBS Sports Preseason Top 25 And 1 earlier this month after Jaden Shackelford entered the transfer portal and Joshua Primo confirmed he was remaining in the 2021 NBA Draft. It was a less-than-ideal week for the program. But some good news came this week when Shackelford announced on Instagram that,

On Wednesday a report surfaced that pointed to the Oklahoma Sooners looking to jump ship to the SEC. That shook the college football landscape and for good reason. Not only is Oklahoma looking at a change but it appears their biggest rivals, the Texas Longhorns, are right there alongside them. The Big 12 Conference’s top

7:00 AM ET During his freshman year at Duke, Grant Hill caught a pass from a teammate in practice and held the basketball high above his head. It was an instinctive move by Hill, who’d arrived — like many of Duke’s recruits under Mike Krzyzewski — as a raw high school All-American with a lot

The NBA Draft is coming up next week, and as always, the event will result in the extraction of some elite young talent from college basketball as a fresh crop of one-and-done stars like Cade Cunningham and Jalen Suggs hear their names called by NBA commissioner Adam Silver. However, there might be a few college

OMAHA, Neb. – Bruce Rasmussen, the Creighton athletic director who oversaw the rise of the men’s basketball team and the school’s transition to the Big East Conference during his tenure over the past 27 years, will retire next month. Rasmussen, 70, announced his retirement Monday, roughly a month after he and the school were sanctioned

5:00 PM ET The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference on Tuesday became the first conference on record to mandate vaccinations. In a statement, the SIAC, which competes in Division II, said that all players and coaches must be fully vaccinated in order to compete. The policy also applies to staff and other auxiliary groups, including officials,