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Jenna Lord Tabbed at No. 70 in Softball America Postseason Top 100 Player Rankings

Story Links MERCER ISLAND, Wash. — Charlotte Softball third baseman, Jenna Lord, named to Softball America Postseason Top 100 Player Rankings list at No. 70 after historic 2025 season. Lord, who was named American Conference Player of the Year, clocked in at number 70 in the nation on Softball America’s postseason top […]

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MERCER ISLAND, Wash. — Charlotte Softball third baseman, Jenna Lord, named to Softball America Postseason Top 100 Player Rankings list at No. 70 after historic 2025 season.

Lord, who was named American Conference Player of the Year, clocked in at number 70 in the nation on Softball America’s postseason top 100 players list after one of the greatest single seasons in Charlotte Softball history.

Lord’s 2025 season included batting .410 in 178 at-bats, a slugging percentage of .865%, 21 home runs, and 65 RBI. Lord is now the single-season record holder in Charlotte Softball history for both RBI and Slugging Percentage. Her 2025 season also ranks in the top three in Charlotte history in homers, batting average, total bases, hits, and runs.

Not only did Lord make a splash in the Charlotte record books, but she also led the American Conference in nearly every batting stat, including slugging, home runs, hits, OPS, runs scored, and RBI, earning her title of 2025 American Conference Player of the Year.

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5-Star WR Cederian Morgan Commits to Alabama over Colorado, Florida, Georgia

Alabama has a long line of superstar wide receivers, and the university added a potential future star to the mix on Wednesday. Per Hayes Fawcett of Rivals, 5-star wide receiver Cederian Morgan announced his commitment to the Crimson Tide. Morgan is the No. 2 receiver and No. 12 overall player in 247Sports’ composite, and he […]

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Alabama has a long line of superstar wide receivers, and the university added a potential future star to the mix on Wednesday.

Per Hayes Fawcett of Rivals, 5-star wide receiver Cederian Morgan announced his commitment to the Crimson Tide. Morgan is the No. 2 receiver and No. 12 overall player in 247Sports’ composite, and he chose Alabama over offers from Colorado, Florida and Georgia, among others.

Per 247Sports, Morgan is the third five-star recruit in the class of 2026 to commit to the Crimson Tide, joining edge rusher Xavier Griffin and cornerback Jorden Edmonds. The commitment fulfills the Alabama native’s goal to stay home.

“I get to stay home and play for the in-state school that I grew up a fan of,” Morgan told Rivals’ Chad Simmons (h/t Keegan Pope of On3.com). “It is a great feeling. This was like a dream for me. I have been there so many times and Alabama is home for me.”

A 6’4″, 210 prospect, Morgan stars for Benjamin Russell High School in Alexander City, Alabama. As a junior, he produced 70 catches for 1,162 yards and 14 touchdowns. He averaged 16.6 yards per catch.

In addition to his prowess on the football field, Morgan is a multi-sport athlete who also plays basketball and competes in track and field. On the basketball court, he averaged 14.4 points and 11.3 rebounds during his junior year. He’s also a two-time state qualifier in the high jump.

Still, the football field is where Morgan thrives the most, and he appears to be a polished prospect who can make an immediate impact at Alabama. 247Sports scouting analyst Gabe Brooks described him as a “uniquely gifted pass-catching target with outstanding physical tools and athletic chops” who “projects as a high-major impact player with traits that suggest long-term NFL Draft high-round potential.”

Crimson Tide fans are surely going to be excited to see Morgan paired with star receiver and fellow Alabama native Ryan Williams in 2026.

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Should Texas Longhorns join LSU and sell advertising on jerseys?

To help come up with the $20.5M to pay their athletes, LSU is planning to sell advertisements on all its teams’ jerseys. I think this is a terrible, unforgivable mistake not worth a fraction of what they’d get in return.https://t.co/S8UPjpcMNY — Zach Barnett (@zach_barnett) July 2, 2025 Searching for a potential NIL edge, the LSU […]

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To help come up with the $20.5M to pay their athletes, LSU is planning to sell advertisements on all its teams’ jerseys. I think this is a terrible, unforgivable mistake not worth a fraction of what they’d get in return.https://t.co/S8UPjpcMNY

— Zach Barnett (@zach_barnett) July 2, 2025

Searching for a potential NIL edge, the LSU Tigers have announced they will sell a sponsorship patch on their iconic jerseys. The Baton Rouge Advocate reports LSU “hopes the NCAA will allow schools to sell patches on their jerseys.” In the event the governing body clears it, the Tigers project they can generate “multiple millions of dollars a year” doing so.

The report says LSU has already identified an advertising partner and has decided out where the patches would go on every jersey, from cross country to football. LSU deputy AD for revenue generation Clay Harris says the program can generate millions a year. But he also says the ad emblem won’t go overboard. “We don’t have this as some crazy, NASCAR-like situation,” Harris said.

Not everyone is pleased with the plan.

Of course, college football jerseys already have a couple forms of advertising on them already. First, there’s the apparel maker’s patch. Be it Nike, or Adidas or Under Amour, the jersey manufacturer makes sure their logo is easily visible. Adidas has even increased the size of its logos on jerseys in the English Premier League.

Each college team also carries their conference logo. While that patch shows unanimity among conference member schools, make not mistake – it is an ad.

International soccer clubs are the real trailblazers in jersey sponsorships. Almost all European teams have a jersey sponsor and it is front and center, the biggest logo on the entire jersey. The team’s logo is typically relegated to a small patch on the left side. London club Arsenal, for example, makes $68.25 million dollars a year from Emirates Airlines.

In the US, the NBA has had jersey advertising for eight years now. The NBA allows teams to sell one sponsorship patch placed on the front left shoulder of player uniforms. Teams make significant money from the ads, averaging $10.88 million per year. New NBA Champion Oklahoma City, for example, has a Love’s travel shop patch.

The NHL doesn’t have jersey sponsors, but the league does allow helmet sponsors.

One decision that needs to be made is the size and look of the patches. Will the sponsor try to match the team colors? Will LSU have a patch that actually clashes with its purple and gold? Where will the logo go? LSU has not shared their exact plan.

Fans won’t like the new advertising space, but if it is successful in Baton Rouge, you can bet more, if not all, teams will adopt the idea. Tradition be damned. The additional revenue stream has been discussed by athletic directors for over a year.

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Jeremiah Smith signs with Adidas but can’t wear its shoes during games

Jeremiah Smith has signed a name, image and likeness contract with Adidas, but Ohio State’s star sophomore receiver will not be wearing the company’s shoes during games. Ohio State has a contract with Nike as its uniform provider, and Smith will be obligated to wear that company’s shoes during OSU-related activities. Smith will wear Adidas […]

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Jeremiah Smith has signed a name, image and likeness contract with Adidas, but Ohio State’s star sophomore receiver will not be wearing the company’s shoes during games.

Ohio State has a contract with Nike as its uniform provider, and Smith will be obligated to wear that company’s shoes during OSU-related activities. Smith will wear Adidas during non-OSU activities.

In a post on X, Smith said, “Three Stripes for life.”

“One of the most memorable moments from last season was losing my black stripe and officially becoming a Buckeye,” Smith said in an Adidas news release. “Fast forward a year and I’m blessed to be adding three, joining the fastest brand in football. It’s crazy to be partnering with a brand that has such a talented roster of players and that I’ve been wearing since I was a young kid. We’re not done yet.”

The top recruit in the 2025 recruiting class nationally, Smith caught 76 passes for 1,315 yards and 15 touchdowns as a freshman last season. His 56-yard catch of a Will Howard deep ball late in the fourth quarter against Notre Dame all but clinched OSU’s national title.

Adidas has also signed NIL deals with OSU commitments Chris Henry Jr. and Kayden Dixon-Wyatt.

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Georgia’s new NIL partnership should have other schools very worried

College football has been the wild west in the NIL and transfer portal era, but finally, the House v. NCAA settlement that went into effect on July 1 is attempting to bring an end to the total lawlessness. The settlement allows athletic departments to pay athletes directly, but only from a revenue-sharing pool that is […]

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Outside NIL payments are still permitted, but they now have to go through a clearinghouse to ensure that they are market value and are not pay-for-play deals disguised as marketing opportunities.

The teams that organized their NIL collectives earliest had the most success in the early NIL era because they were able to outspend their opponents, particularly on the recruiting trail and transfer portal market. Now, that advantage has been leveled, with every program operating with the same revenue-sharing budget, so head coaches and general managers are scrambling to find a way to get a leg up in the new environment.

The most obvious place to look for an advantage is with outside NIL funding that will get through the clearinghouse. To compete in that market, Georgia has announced a new partnership with Learfield to handle most of its athletes’ NIL opportunities.

Founded in 1972 as a farm radio network in Missouri, Learfield has adapted into one of the leading media and technology companies in college athletics with the mission of “Powering the connection of fans to the brands and experiences they love.”

Learfield partners with 137 colleges in some capacity, now including the Georgia Bulldogs, but just because the SEC powerhouse wasn’t first to this model, which will effectively replace its Classic City Collective, doesn’t make it any less scary for the rest of the conference and college football.

With so much high school football talent in and around the Atlanta area, Georgia was long a sleeping giant before Kirby Smart arrived. Then, Smart tapped into those resources and rode them to a national championship. Now, with the Bulldogs as perennial title contenders, if the athletic department has found another way to get their athletes paid beyond the revenue-sharing money, then there’s no reason to believe that Georgia football will be knocked off its perch anytime soon.

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Former Auburn baseball star Sonny DiChiara announces retirement from baseball

Sonny DiChiara is stepping away from baseball. The former Auburn slugger announced his retirement from the game on Wednesday in a heartfelt post to X. “Thank you baseball,” DiChiara wrote. “Officially putting the game behind me as I move forward into my next path in life. So many people to thank for getting me to […]

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Sonny DiChiara is stepping away from baseball. The former Auburn slugger announced his retirement from the game on Wednesday in a heartfelt post to X.

“Thank you baseball,” DiChiara wrote. “Officially putting the game behind me as I move forward into my next path in life. So many people to thank for getting me to where I made it today. Not sad it is over, just blessed that it even happened.”

Thank you baseball. Officially putting the game behind me as I move forward into my next path in life. So many people to thank for getting me to where I made it today. Not sad it is over, just blessed that it even happened pic.twitter.com/ZcEIZilprs

— Sonny DiChiara (@SonnyDichiara) July 2, 2025

DiChiara had spent the past four years in the minor leagues after being selected in the fifth round of the 2022 MLB Draft by the Los Angeles Angels. Most of his time came with the team’s Double A affiliate, the Rocket City Trash Pandas.

He played 145 games for the Trash Pandas across three seasons and put up a batting average of .198 with 13 home runs and 59 RBI. DiChiara also played for the Inland Empire 66ers, Tri-City Dust Devils and Salt Lake Bees.

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