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LSU RHP Kade Woods enters the NCAA Transfer Portal

LSU RHP Kade Woods has entered his name into the NCAA Transfer Portal. That news comes per reporting this evening by On3’s Pete Nakos. Woods has spent four seasons pitching in the Southeastern Conference with a pair apiece at LSU and Alabama. He has made 22 collegiate appearances with 32.1 innings pitched, posting a record […]

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LSU RHP Kade Woods enters the NCAA Transfer Portal

LSU RHP Kade Woods has entered his name into the NCAA Transfer Portal. That news comes per reporting this evening by On3’s Pete Nakos.

Woods has spent four seasons pitching in the Southeastern Conference with a pair apiece at LSU and Alabama. He has made 22 collegiate appearances with 32.1 innings pitched, posting a record of 4-1, with the Tigers and Crimson Tide over the past three years. He has an ERA of 6.47 with 42 strikeouts.

After redshirting in his first year in Tuscaloosa, Woods put up most of that as a redshirt freshman at ‘Bama. He, in 17 appearances with 29.1 innings pitched, had an ERA of 5.52 with 38 strikeouts.

Woods is a native of Monroe, Louisiana. He attended Ouachita Christian High School.

LSU is in the middle of their appearance in the 2025 College World Series in Omaha. They won 4-1 over Arkansas on Saturday to set up a matchup against UCLA on Monday.

To keep up with the latest players on the move, check out On3’s Transfer Portal wire

The On3 Transfer Portal Instagram account and Twitter account are excellent resources to stay up to date with the latest moves.

Recapping LSU’s win over Arkansas in MCWS

June 14th

Game 4 – LSU 4, Arkansas 1
LSU got the better of SEC rival Arkansas on Saturday to advance to the winner’s bracket. LSU opened up a 3-0 lead in the second inning and hung on the rest of the way. It was a stifling effort from the LSU defense, which allowed only three hits all day as Kade Anderson picked up the win at pitcher. The Razorbacks now move on to face Murray State on Monday, where they’ll need to win to keep their season alive.

“Great win for our team. Outstanding performance against a great team in Arkansas,” said LSU’s Jay Johson. “Start with Kade — outstanding performance, what we’ve been accustomed to on the opening night of every weekend this year. I thought he got stronger as the game went along. He executed pitches at a really high level, which you have to do against that offense. I thought the bullpen was great. Chase came in with a man on base, executed, got two strikeouts right there, and then we got the line drive. Kasein showed great poise in the ninth, especially after giving up the single to Davalon.

“Offensively, we did just enough. Really good job by Luis drawing a walk, Derek falling down 0-2 and drawing a walk, then great bunt by Danny. Chris stayed within himself, not trying to do too much, moving the ball to the outfield. We got another free base with the hit-by-pitch, and then Josh again moved the ball against a tough left-hander to get three. Big hit by Derek there in the eighth inning,” Johnson said. “As usual, really good defense by our team tonight.”

“Good performance. Now we’ll get ready for Monday.”

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2025 Big Ten Media Days: Head Coach Greg Schiano Press Conference

Big Ten Media Days – Las Vegas Head Coach Greg Schiano GREG SCHIANO: I first want to thank Commissioner Petitti for everything he does for our league. This has been the most transformational time in college athletics maybe in the history of college athletics. I feel very confident in our leader in how he handles our business […]

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Big Ten Media Days – Las Vegas

Head Coach Greg Schiano

GREG SCHIANO: I first want to thank Commissioner Petitti for everything he does for our league. This has been the most transformational time in college athletics maybe in the history of college athletics. I feel very confident in our leader in how he handles our business as a conference.

I would also like to welcome our president. We have a new president, William Tate, who has come to join us from LSU. Very excited about that. I had a chance to meet with him. He had a chance to address our football team, and it was great, and can’t wait to work together with him.

I want to thank our board chair, Amy Towers, for her tireless work in making sure that we have a president who is going to do a great job for our university.

Today we bring three great representatives of our football program. Athan Kaliakmanis, our quarterback, who has transferred in and has become literally the leader of our program. This is definitely his football team.

Wide receiver Ian Strong, who I think has just grown consistently since he arrived. This will be his third season with us, and he is I think an excellent football player and a great young man.

Then linebacker DJ Djabome, who is from Canada, came down. Great story. DJ came down to go to one of our football camps and drove down from upstate New York and didn’t have a hotel room. He, his coach, and two teammates slept in a car in late July. He went through our camp and did a great job.

We offered him. We brought his family down on a visit immediately, and he started with us in training camp a couple of weeks later. Now to be standing here at Big Ten Media Days and DJ will be representing us, it’s a great story. Excellent football player and even better young man.

Those guys, thrilled to bring them out here to represent our team and our program.

I would also like to thank our coaching staff. Really I’m indebted to them. They do an unbelievable job. Kirk Ciarrocca, our offensive coordinator, who is going into his third season, has done an unbelievable job leading our offensive staff. I would like to welcome Robb Smith back to Rutgers. He and Zach Sparber will be co-coordinators on defense and have done a great job getting everybody up to speed this spring and summer. Then Eddie Allen, who handles our special teams, does a great job. Leading our staffs and them leading our players.

Also, in this new day of college football, I would like to recognize, we have two assistant GMs. Assistant GM for finance is Jordan Wolkstein, who has done an incredible job putting all the financial end of things together. Then our assistant GM for personnel, Eric Josephs, who has been in that role with personnel since we arrived but now has additional responsibilities. Can’t thank them enough.

Again, after all the changes that are going on in college football, it still comes down to a few things: Getting prepared, being tough, and then go putting it on tape. That’s what this team I think has done a great job of doing so far in this offseason in summer, and I can’t wait to coach them.

This will be my 37th year coaching. I’ve never been more excited about doing it. I feel like I did when I was 25, and can’t wait to get this thing underway.

With that, I’ll open it up for any questions.

Q. Rutgers returned to bowl contention in 2024 with disciplined defense and ball security principles with just two fumbles and seven interceptions all season. With some returning starters and a sharper focus on creating takeaways, what specific areas are you targeting this offseason to push the program from good to constantly elite?

GREG SCHIANO: Well, that’s a great question. For sure the ball is the program at our place. There’s a huge amount of emphasis on that.

We came back to Rutgers. This will be our sixth season back. We were dead last and we could hardly see it from there. It was a tough start, but we’ve kind of step by step climbed our way to the middle of the league. I didn’t come back to do that. I came back to win the championship. That may sound funny to some that have followed college football, but that’s what we’re going to do.

I can’t tell you when that’s going to happen, but that’s why we’re back. I have the staff to do it. We’re constantly getting better and better players, and we’re constantly growing as a program.

Our fan base is growing. All the things that you need to climb the ladder, and that’s what we do. We just come in every day and try to get a little bit better. Can’t have any backslides. Have to keep getting better and better, and eventually you’ll get there. That’s really what we focus on.

Q. Obviously rebuilding the program. You talked last year about winning the state back and recruiting. Obviously the transfer portal is a huge factor. Losing guys, you lose your all-time — one of the best rushers in school history to the NFL. How did you kind of navigate NIL and the portal and all those different things to field the roster that you have right now?

GREG SCHIANO: That’s another great question because it’s certainly been the focus of college football, right? NIL, revenue share, all those things, it still comes down to finding the right fit for your program. What is fit? Fit is culture. Fit is athletic ability. Fit is student-athlete. What kind of student, can he fit in, do the work in the classroom? That’s always going our primary focus. Do I wish we had some more money when the NIL stuff was going on? Absolutely. Who doesn’t?

At the end of the day, players and families are going to entrust us with their sons. If they know they’re going to be treated well, they’re going to develop not only on the field, but off the field. That’s what we can promise.

I can’t tell them if they’re going to start. I always tell players. You know, where do you see me? Well, a year from now I see you being the guy that’s on our team. If I’m promising someone else at that time that they can come in and start, how does that make you feel? You come in and earn it at Rutgers. Everything is earned. Nothing is given. I think we have a bunch of guys, a team full of those guys, that understand that and that do that every day.

We have to be very, very careful when we go into the portal at a place like Rutgers. You need to make sure your culture is the driving force. If we’re going to bring a guy in from the transfer portal, not only does he have to be able to help us right now, but he has to be a cultural fit because if you are recruiting the good players in the transfer portal, they’re going to help you; but if they help you and they’re not a cultural fit, they’re going to lead people in the wrong direction, and we can’t have that.

I think our staff and the people I mentioned, Eric Josephs, Jordan Wolkstein, our whole coaching staff have done a great job identifying the players that are a great fit for our football program, and I feel very confident in the guys we got in the portal. I feel really good about the guys we’ve recruited, and I feel really, really good about the guys that are in our program.

That’s the mission, to keep upgrading little by little, net upgrades, until you have a championship football team.

Q. You being, like, a veteran coach, being around for years, like you said, what’s your thoughts on college football, with the salary cap, with the revenue sharing and everything? What’s your thoughts on that?

GREG SCHIANO: Look, I think college football is in a great place, and I know a lot of people like to moan and groan about things that are different. We need to just let things settle down and figure out if what we’ve done, what the court system has done, is it going to allow us to kind of find a level where we can go out and perform, where we can go out and have the kind of teams and programs and leagues that we want to have?

I think tweaking things too early — let’s see how it works out right now. We did a lot. Let’s settle down and see how this works. I know with the CSC there’s a lot of things that are talked about. All those things are great, and they need to be taken care of. I forever have believed that players should be paid. I always felt it was an injustice that players didn’t receive some form of compensation, whether it was a stipend or whatever it would be.

I’m thrilled where we are right now. I think that there needs to be some fine-tuning, but not major changes right now. Let’s see if this will work, and if it doesn’t, then a couple of years from now let’s change it, then. I do. I think college football is still incredibly popular. The fans love it. The players love it. The coaches love it. I can’t wait to get started.

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WNBA All-Star ratings plummet further showcases Caitlin Clark effect

The Caitlin Clark-effect is real for the WNBA as the ratings came out following the WNBA All-Star Game over the weekend. Without Clark in action for, appropriately named, Team Clark, the game saw a dip compared to the 2024 edition. Still, the average of 2.2 million viewers for Saturday night’s game was up 158% compared […]

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The Caitlin Clark-effect is real for the WNBA as the ratings came out following the WNBA All-Star Game over the weekend. Without Clark in action for, appropriately named, Team Clark, the game saw a dip compared to the 2024 edition.

Still, the average of 2.2 million viewers for Saturday night’s game was up 158% compared to the 2023 edition, per ESPN PR. It was the second-most watched WNBA All-Star Game in history.

SBJ’s Austin Karp pointed out the stark reality though. Clark is the breadwinner of the league and it’s evident when she’s missed time due to injury this season. Numbers are up, but not as good compared to when Clark is the main attraction.

“Caitlin Clark effect manifests itself in 2 ways: Anything with Clark, then without, drops hard. NCAA title game -54%. Draft -49%. All-Star -36%. Regular-season -50% during her time out (but still up for 2025),” Karp wrote on Twitter/X. “Numbers even without Caitlin well above years before her arrival.”

Last season, there were 3.44 million viewers for the WNBA All-Star Game. This past weekend, it dipped 36% down to 2.19 million viewers, first reported by Front Office Sports. Team Collier defeated Team Clark, without the second-year superstar, 151-131 Saturday night.

The larger issue surrounding the WNBA is their current CBA negotiation. The players came out for warmups sporting tee-shirts saying “Pay Us What You Owe Us.”

Clark took an apparent shot from fellow all-star Kelsey Plum, who described the shirts postgame with Sabrina Ionescu. She claimed Team Clark wasn’t quite on the same page with the statement at first.

“It was a very powerful moment,” Plum told reporters after the game. “As players, we didn’t know that that was going to happen. It was a genuine surprise. The T-shirt was determined this morning. Not to tattletale: zero members of Team Clark were very present for that.”

Granted, that stirred social media debates about whether or not WNBA players deserve the same pay as NBA players, which spiraled into the semantics of what they actually meant. With expansion in the league, players feel if franchises are much more valuable these days, they feel they are owed a bigger piece of a growing pie.

“WNBA All-Star capts. Napheesa Collier & Caitlin Clark addressing the media right now,” Annie Costabile of FOS said via X during All-Star Weekend. “Both have fielded questions on the CBA. Clark said players are fortunate to have lucrative deals off the court, but they’re fighting for better W paychecks as the league continues to grow.”



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Power Conferences Resolve Dispute With College Sports Commission Over NIL Collectives

House attorneys and power conference commissioners have resolved a dispute with the newly created College Sports Commission over the handling of NIL collectives in the new revenue-sharing era, according to a report from Ross Dellenger of Yahoo. The dispute centered around how NIL collectives (backed by wealthy boosters) could compensate athletes in the new environment. […]

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House attorneys and power conference commissioners have resolved a dispute with the newly created College Sports Commission over the handling of NIL collectives in the new revenue-sharing era, according to a report from Ross Dellenger of Yahoo.

The dispute centered around how NIL collectives (backed by wealthy boosters) could compensate athletes in the new environment.

A memo sent to schools earlier this month outlined that the College Sports Commission had denied athlete deals from collectives because it was “holding collectives to a higher threshold” when it comes to evaluating the legitimacy of NIL deals, per Dellenger. This original rule, as a result of the House settlement, was originally meant to curtail the millions of dollars being spent by NIL collectives, as well as the power they yielded in a pay-for-play environment.

Now, NIL deals with collectives that have a “valid business purpose” will be re-evaluated. This change means that collectives could provide athletes with deals that would not count against a school’s revenue cap that was established for athletes as a result of the House settlement. Any deals with NIL collectives still need to be approved through NIL Go, the clearinghouse established alongside the CSC to evaluate the legitimacy of NIL deals.

This would certainly open the door for schools to navigate (or circumvent) the revenue cap and boost compensation for athletes, which of course, could lead to a continued bumpy future for high school recruiting, the transfer portal and roster tampering.

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Judge reduces bail for Memphis guard Sincere Parker in domestic assault case

Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Memphis guard Sincere Parker’s bail was cut nearly in half Monday, two days after he was charged with assaulting his ex-girlfriend. Shelby County General Sessions Criminal Court Judge Greg Gilbert reduced Parker’s bail from $120,000 to $75,000. Parker’s attorney, Arthur Horne, told reporters that the bond had been posted. […]

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Memphis guard Sincere Parker’s bail was cut nearly in half Monday, two days after he was charged with assaulting his ex-girlfriend.

Shelby County General Sessions Criminal Court Judge Greg Gilbert reduced Parker’s bail from $120,000 to $75,000. Parker’s attorney, Arthur Horne, told reporters that the bond had been posted.

Parker is due back in court on July 29.

He must remain at least 100 feet from his ex-girlfriend.

She told police that the attack occurred on May 27 at the Memphis apartment the couple shared. She reported that Parker pushed her, slapped her in the face and choked her, leaving her bruised and bloodied, according to a police report.

The woman also told police that Parker, 23, broke her cellphone because he didn’t want her to have the digital key to the apartment.

Horne told reporters that the incident was captured on a video call between Parker and his mother, “which is fortunate for us and fortunate for our defense.”

“We plan on fighting this,” Horne said. “This has been a long, ongoing saga between him and the ex-girlfriend. I just hope the public will give us time to sort through it so the whole story does come out because there are two sides to this. Right now, it looks like my client, Mr. Parker, is a woman-abuser, and that’s not the case.”

Horne said he believed the Memphis athletic department is waiting to see how the case unfolds before deciding whether to take action.

Parker transferred to Memphis after averaging 12.2 points last season for McNeese, helping the Cowboys and coach Will Wade reach the second round of the NCAA Tournament. He played his first two seasons for Saint Louis.

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College Sports Commission, House attorneys end standoff over policing collectives: Sources

By Ralph D. Russo, Stewart Mandel and Justin Williams The newly formed College Sports Commission and the plaintiffs’ lawyers in the House v. NCAA settlement have reached a preliminary agreement to classify name, image and likeness collectives the same as other “valid” businesses by the NIL Go clearinghouse, three people informed of the negotiations told […]

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The newly formed College Sports Commission and the plaintiffs’ lawyers in the House v. NCAA settlement have reached a preliminary agreement to classify name, image and likeness collectives the same as other “valid” businesses by the NIL Go clearinghouse, three people informed of the negotiations told The Athletic on Tuesday.

The deal settles a standoff that began on July 10, when the CSC issued a memo stating that “an entity with a business purpose of providing payments or benefits to student-athletes or institutions, rather than providing goods or services to the general public for profit,” does not satisfy the new model’s “valid business purpose requirement.”

“By eliminating unnecessary roadblocks, this agreement moves us closer to treating NIL collectives like every other legitimate business operating in the college sports ecosystem,” said Hunter Baddour, chairman of the Collective Association, a trade organization with dozens of collectives as members.

The CSC’s initial guidance came as a warning shot to collectives that they should expect their NIL deals with athletes to be denied by the newly established clearinghouse, even if the athletes are being paid to promote merchandise or attend a for-profit event.

Jeffrey Kessler, the lead plaintiffs’ attorney in the House settlement, sent a letter to CSC, the power conferences that oversee the new enforcement organization and the NCAA the next day, demanding the guidance be retracted, saying it violated the terms of the settlement. If not, he said, they would seek relief from the court-appointed magistrate overseeing the settlement.

Kessler declined comment when reached by The Athletic. “Conversations with class counsel remain ongoing,” a spokesperson for the CSC told The Athletic. “A formal statement will be issued when the issue has been resolved.”

The deal reached Tuesday avoids that step. Instead, a clarification of the guidance is expected to be handed down by the CSC that clarifies collectives can offer goods and services for profit in the form of NIL payments, and they can send those deals through the clearinghouse for approval.

“We’re looking for more clarity on what’s going to be allowed there, and until we get some of that clarity, it’s going to be a little bit hard to move forward,” Ohio State coach Ryan Day said at Big Ten media days. “We’re going to make sure we’re competitive with everybody else, but we have to make sure we’re doing what’s right.”

The change could be seen as a blow to conferences and schools, which have been banking on the CSC model to prevent members from going above the $20.5 million revenue-sharing cap to attract athletes. Allowing collectives to continue operating as they have in the past now opens the door to a “soft cap” in the form of third-party deals with athletes.

The collectives’ deals, as with all third-party businesses, will still be subject to a “range of compensation” limit that will be evaluated through a service run by the accounting firm Deloitte.

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Arizona State’s Sam Leavitt to donate commission from NIL apparel sales to teammates

Earlier this week, Arizona State quarterback Sam Leavitt announced a new line of NIL merchandise in partnership with The NIL Store. However, he doesn’t plan to take a penny from the commission. Leavitt is planning to donate the dollars from the sales to his teammates, he said. The collection went live earlier this week and […]

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Earlier this week, Arizona State quarterback Sam Leavitt announced a new line of NIL merchandise in partnership with The NIL Store. However, he doesn’t plan to take a penny from the commission.

Leavitt is planning to donate the dollars from the sales to his teammates, he said. The collection went live earlier this week and features sweatshirts, hoodies, t-shirts and jerseys. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

It’s the latest way of giving back for Leavitt, who has a $3.1 million On3 NIL Valuation. He previously donated dollars from merchandise sales to the Arizona State-focused NIL collective, Sun Angel Collective, last year. Earlier this offseason, he also donated $15,000 to the Pat Tillman Foundation.

The hype continues to grow around Leavitt after he helped lead Arizona State to a Big 12 title and a College Football Playoff appearance a season ago. He threw for 2,885 yards and 24 touchdowns while adding 443 rushing yards and five scores on the ground following his transfer from Michigan State.

Then, in January, Leavitt announced his return to Arizona State through the Sun Angel Collective. In the time since, the Heisman Trophy buzz has been growing as he became one of the top names in college football.

Leavitt’s On3 NIL Valuation ranks No. 9 in the college football NIL rankings. It also puts him at No. 10 in the On3 NIL 100, the first of its kind and defacto NIL ranking of the top 100 high school and college athletes ranked by their On3 NIL Valuation.

As he came off last year’s impressive season, schools lined up to make their transfer portal pitch to Leavitt. However, he ultimately chose to run it back in Tempe, he told On3’s Pete Nakos.

“It was a quick conversation, and then it was squashed,” Leavitt said. “I’m in such a great position here. Got all my best friends, best team to play on. The culture is incredible. I’m at Arizona State, and I’m still getting taken care of.”

Sam Leavitt isn’t the only notable playmaker returning to Arizona State this year. His top receiver, Jordyn Tyson, is also back in the fold. The two established a big-time connection in 2024 as Tyson led the team with 75 receptions for 1,101 yards and 10 touchdowns.

Tyson then announced his return for 2025, also by inking a new deal with Sun Angel Collective. His $1 million On3 NIL Valuation ranks No. 63 in the college football NIL rankings and second on the ASU roster only to Leavitt





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