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February 20, 2026
How Eileen Gu competing for China is all American
Eileen Gu has deftly handled questions from both sides of the Pacific about her decision.
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February 13, 2026
Wetzel: A coach's lessons on fatherhood ... from 1948
Joe Judge was trying to make a point to help a player get a court injunction. Instead he got a viral moment.
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February 11, 2026
Wetzel: Giannis/Kalshi deal does NBA no favors
All this might be legal, but at some point perception defines reality, and optics overwhelm everything.
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February 5, 2026
Wetzel: Standing on the brink of anything-goes NCAA eligibility
By not controlling who is eligible, the NCAA is losing the ability to function as an organizing athletic body.
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January 29, 2026
Wetzel: How the odd Belichick HOF snub could get m...
One thing could make this situation even more awkward: Robert Kraft could get voted in.
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January 28, 2026
Wetzel: If Belichick isn't first ballot, shut the Hall down
The humiliation of snubbing Bill Belichick is on the committee and, in turn, on the Hall of Fame itself.
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January 27, 2026
Wetzel: Let football be football. And let it snow.
Don't move football to climate controlled environments. Let football be football. And let it snow.
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January 22, 2026
Wetzel: G League to the SEC? What are we doing here?
Wetzel: The NCAA needs Congress to give it a skinny exemption to at least set some eligibility standards.
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January 20, 2026
Wetzel: Hoosiers delivered a national title for the everyman
Curt Cignetti's relentless group of discards and misfits showed what the transfer portal made possible.
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January 16, 2026
Wetzel: Accused hoops schemers were not victims of a changing society
These players selfishly betrayed their common sense, their teammates and, ultimately, themselves, Wetzel says.
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January 15, 2026
Disregard whispers of cheating. Indiana deserves to be here
When an upstart ike Indiana wins, whispers of cheating are inevitable. Maybe they're just better.
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January 7, 2026
Wetzel: The big, bad SEC isn't dead. It's just not special anymore
The Big Ten is guaranteed to be playing for a third straight national title. Can the SEC find a way to dominate this new era like it did the previous one?
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December 31, 2025
Wetzel: How college basketball ended up signing NBA draft picks
The fault falls to college sports' leaders who spent decades defending amateurism with dated legal arguments.
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December 28, 2025
Have the Patriots somehow rebooted a dynasty -- and become likable?
America is used to the Patriots being great. They've somehow become likable, too.
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December 22, 2025
Wetzel: Is this the last straw for NCAA enforcement?
The times keep changing; the NCAA might have been caught flat-footed again.
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December 11, 2025
Wetzel: Beware, college sports, private equity has arrived
The University of Utah approved a groundbreaking private equity deal. Dan Wetzel writes that big changes could follow.
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December 8, 2025
Wetzel: A defense of the CFP committee? It's not perfect, but nothing in this sport can be
Don't overreact to this year's playoff rankings by blowing up the system. Chasing perfection is a fool's errand.
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December 3, 2025
How CFB's 'calendar' problem affects athletes more than coaches such as Kiffin
Unlike coaches, high school kids don't have multimillion-dollar buyouts to fall back on, Dan Wetzel writes.
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December 1, 2025
Wetzel: Kiffin is no victim, and he needs to own that he just quit on a title contender
Lane Kiffin might be a great coach, but he isn't being treated unfairly by Ole Miss or "the calendar" or anything else.
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