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Washington State Track & Field to cut field events, limited sprinting and hurdling events | Sports

PULLMAN, Wash. – Effective immediately, the Washington State Cougars will drop field events in their track and field team. The school announced today in a press release that they field events like jumps and throws are “no longer supported” and this is done to “give WSU Track & Field the best opportunity to remain competitive […]

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PULLMAN, Wash. – Effective immediately, the Washington State Cougars will drop field events in their track and field team.

The school announced today in a press release that they field events like jumps and throws are “no longer supported” and this is done to “give WSU Track & Field the best opportunity to remain competitive at the conference and national levels.”

This decision will leave 12 male and female Coug athletes out of opportunities to compete, but WSU did add that impacted student-athletes “will have their scholarships honored”.

Sprinters and hurdlers will not be cut, but their opportunities will be limited according to WSU.

You can read the full release from WSU right here.

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SEC’s Greg Sankey: CFP expansion not a done deal – Field Level Media – Professional sports content solutions

The College Football Playoff could remain at 12 teams if the Southeastern Conference and Big Ten can’t come to an agreement, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said Monday. “That’s fine,” Sankey said as SEC media days kicked off in Atlanta. “We have a 12-team playoff, five conference champions. That can stay if we can’t agree.” Coaches […]

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The College Football Playoff could remain at 12 teams if the Southeastern Conference and Big Ten can’t come to an agreement, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said Monday.

“That’s fine,” Sankey said as SEC media days kicked off in Atlanta. “We have a 12-team playoff, five conference champions. That can stay if we can’t agree.”

Coaches in the SEC would like to see a 16-team playoff that follows the “5+11” model, made up of the five highest-ranked conference champions and 11 at-large bids.

The Big Ten has proposed a format where the Big Ten and SEC would each get four automatic bids, with two going to both the ACC and Big 12 and one more to the highest-ranked champion of another conference. The rest of the field — either 14 or 16 teams — would come from at-large bids.

“We had a different view coming out of (SEC meetings) around the notion of allocations, if you will,” Sankey said, referring to automatic bids. “I think you’ll probably hear that again from our coaches. The Big Ten has a different view, that’s fine.”

Although all sides at least seem to favor increasing the size of the field, Sankey said it’s not a foregone conclusion.

“I think there’s this notion that there has to be this magic moment and something has to happen with expansion, and it has to be forced,” he said.

There is a Dec. 1 deadline to determine a format for the CFP in 2026 and beyond.

–Field Level Media



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Local volleyball referee entering 30th year of officiating

OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) — Sports officials have a tough job and it’s been a challenge to recruit new ones. In this story, you’ll meet Craig Wiedel who has been a volleyball referee for 30 years. He’s stuck around through referee shortages and actively works to recruit more officials in Nebraska. His why: giving back and […]

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OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) — Sports officials have a tough job and it’s been a challenge to recruit new ones.

In this story, you’ll meet Craig Wiedel who has been a volleyball referee for 30 years. He’s stuck around through referee shortages and actively works to recruit more officials in Nebraska.

His why: giving back and the love of competition.

  • Craig Wiedel began officiating volleyball as a side job while he was in college.
  • Thirty years later, volleyball is now a full-time gig: he referees, assigns other officials in Nebraska to games and is the Commissioner for USA Volleyball Great Plains Region.
  • “There hasn’t been a day that I can say I don’t enjoy doing what I do,” Wiedel said.

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Local volleyball referee entering 30th year of officiating, also works to recruit more refs in Nebraska

What began as a side hustle turned into a career.

“I started reffing when I was 18 to make a little extra money in college,” Craig Wiedel, a volleyball referee based in Nebraska, said. “All I do now for a career is volleyball which is kind of fun.”

This will be his 30th year officiating volleyball.

“I’ve done all sports,” Wiedel said. “I’ve officiated them all, but what I like about volleyball is it’s fast.”

Which is why the career accountant made a switch in his early 40s.

“Being around so many people that have the same passion,” Wiedel said. “It’s just like one big family and that’s what I appreciate about it.”

Over the last few years, there has been a national shortage of sports officials.

In fact, a 2024 NSAA survey found about 64% of officials across all sports considered quitting at some point.

On the other hand, Wiedel said the numbers for volleyball refs in Nebraska are increasing.

“Whenever I go somewhere, they’re like ‘Oh, you’re recruiting refs again,’” he said. “But honestly, half the time you just have to ask the people and they want to do it.”

He says if a ref sticks around for three years, it’s likely they’ll ref for many more.

Like Hiliary Vanness, a former player, now a fifth-year official.

“In the moment it may seem kind of stressful,” she said, “but at the end of the match, just playing good volleyball, watching good volleyball, officiating good volleyball, that’s really the best part.”

Wiedel said sometimes he still has to crunch numbers to ensure games in Nebraska have officials.

“When I assign in the fall, there’s nights that I will go to bed having to find four or five refs for the next day because we’re that short,” he said. “We’ve grown it a lot, but we still have a long ways to go with that.”

But Wiedel said he’s more than happy to do it to grow the sport.

“Just do what you love to do,” he said. “There hasn’t been a day that I can say I don’t enjoy doing what I do.”





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Cincinnati Reds Release Four Minor League Pitchers

The Cincinnati Reds released right-handed pitcher Brooks Crawford, right-handed pitcher Trey Braithwaite, right-handed pitcher Mendry Solano, and right-handed pitcher Mauricio Colmenares on Saturday, according to the team’s minor league transaction log. Crawford has been with the Reds organization since 2023 and appeared in 15 games with Double-A Chattanooga this season, and had an ERA of […]

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Cincinnati Reds Release Four Minor League Pitchers

The Cincinnati Reds released right-handed pitcher Brooks Crawford, right-handed pitcher Trey Braithwaite, right-handed pitcher Mendry Solano, and right-handed pitcher Mauricio Colmenares on Saturday, according to the team’s minor league transaction log.

Crawford has been with the Reds organization since 2023 and appeared in 15 games with Double-A Chattanooga this season, and had an ERA of 8.28.

Braithwhite was drafted in the 16th round of the 2022 MLB Draft. He spent the first half of the 2025 season in High-A Dayton and had a 4.66 ERA in 16 games.

Solano spent the 2024 season with the Reds in the Dominican Summer League before spending the 2025 season with the ACL Reds. He had an 11.08 ERA in 11 games for the ACL Reds.

Colmenaris appeared in 27 games in the Dominican Summer League for the Reds over the past two seasons. This year, he had a 5.79 ERA in 11 games with the ACL Reds.

You can see the minor league transaction log here.

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UWM track reunion brings together generations of excellence

What started as a casual conversation between a few friends last summer turned into a heartfelt reunion for UWM track and field alumni this summer. More than 100 former Panthers, family members and friends gathered June 28 in Milwaukee’s Best Place at the Historic Pabst Brewery to share memories and catch up on each other’s […]

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What started as a casual conversation between a few friends last summer turned into a heartfelt reunion for UWM track and field alumni this summer.

More than 100 former Panthers, family members and friends gathered June 28 in Milwaukee’s Best Place at the Historic Pabst Brewery to share memories and catch up on each other’s lives. They also heard from the team’s current athletes , including six-time Horizon League Coach of the Year Andrew Basler and hurdler Natalie Block, who became UWM’s first Division 1 All-American at the 2025 NCAA Championships.

Michael Hirsch, who ran track and cross country for the Panthers from 1976-80, was in Milwaukee a year prior visiting some fellow former runners. In a particularly nostalgic moment, one friend half-jokingly said that they needed to get everyone back together.

So Hirsch, now a dean at Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas, took up the challenge, embarking on a year’s worth of logistical and organizational efforts.

He’d put together a smaller gathering back in the late 1990s, but this one quickly grew into a much more complex task, and Hirsch thanked the UWM Alumni Association and the many people who helped track everyone down. Emails were searched for and shared, as was the occasional physical address, and social media sleuths played their part.

All the work came to fruition in Best Place’s Great Hall. As a slideshow of photos and articles from days gone by played in the background, old friends exchanged hugs and smiles, laughter and remembrances.

“I love these people. My UWM days are some of the best days of my life, and I have a wonderful life,” Hirsch said in a quieter  moment. “These are strong people, smart people, kind people, forgiving people, teammates and their families. I was just hoping to see them, and I was hoping that people would spend a lot of time talking and smiling.”

And you didn’t have to be part of those track classes from the 1970s and ’80s to appreciate the scene.

“I love seeing the photos, seeing the classic uniforms and some of those old surfaces, it’s crazy that they’re running on that,” said Block, who heads into her final UWM season after placing 12th in the 400-meter hurdles at the 2025 NCAA Championships, the best-ever national finish among Panther women. “It’s super-cool to see, because that’s how the program grew. You can see it carry forward through generations.”

Hirsch, meanwhile, is proud of how Block and the current generation continue to carry the baton.

“UWM fosters that sort of excellence,” Hirsch said. “We met at the Klotsche Center earlier today, and the coach was talking us through how they support their athletes and how proud he is of their athletes and  how successful and hardworking Natalie has been. Our experience was at a different time, and she’s reached a higher level of excellence, and it’s brilliant.”



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Team USA Olympic Freestyle Skiing Roster: Who’s qualified and key dates ahead of Milan Cortina 2026

The U.S. Olympic freestyle skiing roster won’t fully be determined until January 2026, but four athletes already have clinched their spots on the team for Milan Cortina. Ultimately, the roster could include up to 32 athletes across all disciplines. In freestyle skiing, athletes don’t qualify directly for the Winter Olympics. Instead, they earn quota spots […]

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The U.S. Olympic freestyle skiing roster won’t fully be determined until January 2026, but four athletes already have clinched their spots on the team for Milan Cortina. Ultimately, the roster could include up to 32 athletes across all disciplines.

In freestyle skiing, athletes don’t qualify directly for the Winter Olympics. Instead, they earn quota spots for their countries, and it’s up to each country to name athletes to its Olympic roster to fill those quota spots. U.S. Ski & Snowboard’s selection criteria has broken the selection process into two distinct phases.

At the conclusion of the 2024-25 season, one athlete per event could clinch an Olympic spot by finishing in the top three of the 2026 FIS Base List. Four athletes met that criteria.

The rest of the spots will be filled over the course of the 2025-26 season, with designated selection events being used as the primary way that athletes earn nominations to the team. For more details on the selection process, check out our article on Olympic freestyle skiing qualification.

Meet the members of the 2026 U.S. Olympic freestyle ski team (so far) below.



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Track & Field’s Cole Piotrowski Wins SEC Start-Up Competition – Ole Miss Athletics

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Ole Miss track & field alum Cole Piotrowski was named the winner of the SEC Start-Up business competition, earning a $10,000 investment as revealed on an hour-long SEC Network special for the conference’s second edition of the student-athlete pitch competition.   Piotrowski’s winning idea Godors is a spray that eliminates sport-specific odors […]

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Ole Miss track & field alum Cole Piotrowski was named the winner of the SEC Start-Up business competition, earning a $10,000 investment as revealed on an hour-long SEC Network special for the conference’s second edition of the student-athlete pitch competition.
 
Piotrowski’s winning idea Godors is a spray that eliminates sport-specific odors at their root – rather than covering them up – while also using clean ingredients.
 

Piotrowski recently wrapped up his four-year career with Ole Miss track & field as a middle-distance specialist. Piotrowski, a native of Queens, ran in 34 total meets for the Rebels across his four full seasons with career-bests of 1:50.12 in the 800-meter, 2:25.63 in the 1000-meter and 3:50.22 in the 1500 while also running on several 4×400-meter relays during his career.
 
Bringing together innovative minds and entrepreneurial spirits from across the Southeastern Conference, SEC Start Up is an academic competition in partnership with Regions, the official bank of the SEC, in support of the entrepreneurial ventures of student-athletes.
 
Participants had the chance to pitch their business ideas to a panel of esteemed judges, which included Regions Bank Executive Vice President of Community Affairs Leroy Abrahams, former Auburn men’s basketball player and businessman Daymeon Fishback, content creator and HSN/QVC host Emily Loftiss, and CEO of BIOLYTE Jesslyn Rollins.
 
The new initiative expands business and innovation programming in place at the Conference, including its annual SEC Student Pitch Competition and SEC MBA Case Competition. Since 2011, the SEC has supported the teaching, research and service mission of its member universities through a variety of programs and activities. Learn more at SECAcademics.com.
 



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