How nonprofits are helping college sports programs make more money
NEW YORK (AP) — University of Louisville athletic director Josh Heird says there is no “silver bullet” that will help his department’s current revenue race. To compete in the increasingly commercialized world of college sports, programs of its size might spend more than $40 million a year on talent acquisition, revenue sharing and other costs, […]
Stop Counting Backlinks. Start Counting Brand Mentions.
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Once-dominant SEC desperate to end 3-year championship drought
Blame Alabama and Georgia. Point fingers at Auburn, Florida, LSU, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas, too. The Southeastern Conference, once the most dominant league in the land, lost its stranglehold on college football over the last three years. The organization that boasts a combined 19 national championships since 1990 hasn’t even made the title game since […]
US Open singles champions to earn a record $5.5 million
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Open singles champions will earn $5.5 million, the highest winnings in Grand Slam tennis history. Overall compensation for the final major of the year is rising to a record $108 million, a 20% increase from last year and a 44% jump since 2024. The financial details were announced Thursday […]
San Sebastian to Close With Film About Media Hack in Nazi Belgium
Belgian filmmaker Michaël R. Roskam will return to the San Sebastián Film Festival to close the official selection of the 74th edition of the Spanish festival in an out-of-competition with Le Faux Soir, which will gets its European premiere following its world premiere at Toronto 2026. The movie “recreates one of the most curious episodes of the Belgian […]
How Much of a Cancer Drug Is Too Much? Patients, Researchers Challenge FDA-Approved Dosages
Northwestern University economist Chuck Manski studies decision-making amid uncertainty. That prepared him better than many other cancer patients to decide whether to stay on an immunotherapy treatment that was making him very ill. For six months in 2022, Manski received monthly infusions of nivolumab to fight advanced melanoma. The drug ruined his thyroid gland, he […]
Violence Against Healthcare Workers and Staffing Shortages Fuel Hospital Strikes
Nurse Crystal Dhooghe is used to dealing with blood and broken bones in the emergency room. But she didn’t expect to witness so much violence against her own colleagues. “I’ve seen nurses get shoved, pushed, scratched. The biggest one is bitten,” said Dhooghe, who works at Henry Ford Genesys Hospital in Grand Blanc, Michigan. The […]
Jessie J yells at fighting concert-goers at UK Party in the Paddock festival
Pop star Jessie J stopped a recent show to ensure a couple of fighting concert-goers were booted from the crowd. The British singer was performing at the Party in the Paddock festival in the UK over the weekend when a fight broke out in the crowd. In footage posted online, Jessie was shown first appealing to […]
What to know about Prince Harry’s move back to Britain
LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry is coming home to Britain and bringing his wife Meghan and their children for an extended stay that could help repair a rift with the royal family. The bombshell news comes six years after the couple’s tumultuous decision to leave their roles as working members of the family, abandon the […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning artists hit the road in new exhibition
NEW YORK (AP) — Barbara Kingsolver, Percival Everett and Daniel Kraus will be among the authors and other Pulitzer Prize-winning artists and journalists participating in a 20-city touring exhibition jointly organized by the Pulitzers and the American Library Association. “Pulitzer on the Road: Prize — Winning Works That Inform, Empower & Inspire” will launch in […]