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What's the ideology of N.I.L.?
College football players should be fairly compensated for their work. But achieving that goal exclusively through NIL deals is bad for the sport.
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My first good night of sleep all week
Some behind-the-scenes insight for paid subscribers into this newsletter's biggest day ever and content coming up in the month ahead.
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Hugh Freeze hire shows how CFB media is fundamentally broken
The reasons the college football media is unequipped to hold powerful men to account run so much deeper than the decisions made by any one reporter.
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How SC newspapers covered previous Clemson streak-busters
South Carolina's win on Saturday made it nine times the Gamecocks have busted a Clemson winning streak of four games or more. Here's a look at how newspapers covered the previous eight.
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The streak is over. The savings have just begun.
Another top-10 victory, another deep discount on annual subscriptions.
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It's over
After eight long years, the curse is lifted.
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The best single-game QB performances in USC history
Spencer Rattler's six-touchdown outing against Tennessee has sparked a fun debate.
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Most shocking upset since ... ?
South Carolina's 63-38 win over Tennessee was a very good win over a very good team, and a performance that seemingly came out of nowhere. That doesn't happen very often!
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63 points vs. UT, 63 points off an annual subscription
If I do this promo again after we hang 100 on Clemson next week, I'll be in big trouble.
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No, Mike McGee didn't turn down the Carolina Panthers
The narrative around how the Panthers ended up playing the 1995 season in Clemson instead of Columbia has been massively oversimplified.
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The Broadway flop that spawned the USC fight song
"How Now, Dow Jones" was hated by audiences and critics. Its run on Broadway lasted only seven months. But it lives on forever in the University of South Carolina's fight song.
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Why 'U of SC' was doomed to fail
The abbreviation, formally introduced in 2019, may have advanced USC's global branding interests but it never caught on with the rank-and-file.