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UCLA taps big name alums to join search committee to find the university's next football coach

September 26, 2025

UCLA Taps Big Name Alums to Join Search Committee for Next Football Coach
UCLA on Thursday revealed the five-member search committee for its next football coach, featuring “heavy hitters from various corners of the professional sports world, including two who helped engineer a quick turnaround” with the Commanders, according to Ben Bolch of the L.A. TIMES. The committee members that will assist UCLA AD Martin Jarmond in the search are Commanders GM Adam Peters, ESPN’s Bob Myers, sports exec Casey Wasserman, free agent LB Eric Kendricks and UCLA Exec Senior Associate AD Erin Adkins. Each member either graduated from UCLA or works for the school’s athletic department. Peters and Myers were “part of the team that hired” Commanders coach Dan Quinn, who took the team to the NFC Championship Game in his first season. They will “hope to have similar success in selecting the successor” to coach DeShaun Foster, who was fired earlier this month.
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Cuban Says NBA Should Look to Create Its Own World Cup
Mavericks minority owner Mark Cuban said the NBA “should create our own World Cup.” Cuban, appearing on “Network with Rich Kleiman,” said a “World cup every two years, that’s the dominant competition in the basketball world, would be far more valuable” than the NBA trying to create its own NBA Europe league.
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Netflix to Stream Yankees-Giants on MLB Opening Day 2026 as Part of New 3-Year Agreement: Sources
The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand reports: “As part of the new three-year agreement between MLB and the giant streamer, the Yankees’ March 25 opener at San Francisco will be Netflix’s first exclusive stream and will begin the 2026 season. This primetime matchup is the only game that day, with the rest of the clubs opening the next day.

“Netflix will also have the Home Run Derby and is expected to share a handful of special location event regular-season games with NBC/Peacock…”
^{The Athletic}

Celtics Owner Bill Chisholm: Boston Should Have a WNBA Team
FOS’ Alex Schiffer writes, “Bill Chisholm has been in charge of the Celtics for roughly one month, but he already has his eye on another franchise. On Thursday at the Celtics practice facility the Auerbach Center, Chisholm held his first press conference since becoming the team’s governor in August. Chisholm agreed to buy the team for $6.1 billion in March from the Grousbeck family, who purchased the team in 2002 for $360 million.”
^{Front Office Sports}

President Trump Suggests Moving 2026 World Cup Games From Cities He Deems Unsafe
President Trump suggested to reporters Thursday that he would move matches for next summer’s 2026 men’s World Cup away from U.S. host cities that are “even a little bit dangerous.” Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump first guaranteed that the World Cup would be “very secure,” but then suggested that he would intervene and strip host cities of matches.
^{The Athletic}

Donald Trump Administration Working to Stop Israel Being Banned From 2026 World Cup After UN Plea
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump says it will work to keep Israel from being banned from the 2026 men’s World Cup. Israel’s participation in global soccer has been questioned in the past week, with the United Nations calling on FIFA and UEFA, the respective governing bodies of world and European soccer, to suspend the nation from their competitions.
^{The Athletic}

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CFP Expansion Talks Stall As Consensus Eludes Commissioners
FOS’ Erid Fisher writes, “A new College Football Playoff format appears no closer to arriving, as Football Bowl Subdivision conference commissioners and Notre Dame’s athletic director met Wednesday outside Chicago and emerged without any further consensus on the tournament’s future. As the Power 4 in particular remains at odds on how to allocate automatic bids in an enlarged format, CFP executive director Rich Clark said the event’s management committee is comfortable’ with staying at 12 teams for not only this year but 2026 as well.”
^{AP News}

Elevate Promised to Announce College Fund Deals. Where Are They?
Sportico’s Daniel Libit and Eben Novy-Williams write, “In early June, Elevate unveiled a new $500 million college sports investment fund, touting that it had already signed two university partners. The schools’ identities were not divulged, but Elevate’s official announcement—as well as subsequent comments to various media outlets—indicated those would be revealed ‘soon,’ perhaps within a few weeks. That has yet to occur, nearly 15 weeks later.

“When Sportico published a story reporting that UCLA and Penn State, two existing Elevate partners, were the institutions being referenced, both universities firmly denied any such agreements. This week, they said nothing has changed.”
^{AP News}

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