The Latest Breaking News from Jim Phillips

As a child growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1960s and early ’70s, Marvin Richardson lived through school desegregation and the racial turmoil that followed the passage of the Civil Rights Act. He lived through the “fears and challenges” that came with being Black in the South, he…

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In the span of about a week, in cities separated by about 600 miles, two of the most powerful leaders in college athletics offered contrasting worldviews in this summer of massive change and uncertainty. One of them espoused the supposed values of the traditional collegiate sports model; the other embraced…

A tumultuous 2020 behind him, the conference’s commissioner has rapidly won over support and turned his league into a coast-to-coast juggernaut.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Pat Narduzzi and three Pitt players arrived at the Westin Charlotte for Thursday’s ACC Kickoff at around 9:30 a.m. They spent an hour-and-a-half filming TV features before taking the podium for a press conference. Narduzzi hopped on ACC Network before joining his players for an open interview…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Amid the consternation about the future and present of the ACC — the endless talk about the revenue gap; the speculation over whether the league’s grant of rights will hold; the questions concerning any potential defections — legitimate change has been forgotten in the hysteria. Part of…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In a way it was the same as it has ever been here on Wednesday during day one of the ACC’s annual preseason football kickoff: the same cliches and the same kind of boundless optimism eternal this time of year; the same expansive hordes surrounding the big…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jim Phillips is a true believer. If there was any doubt about it before, there was none left after Wednesday. At a time when not only his conference but college athletics in general is being pulled in new, odd directions by forces both benign and malignant, the…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Financial might has the Big Ten and Southeastern conferences leaving the rest of the college leagues in the dust.