Year: 2022

USA Today Sports columnist Dan Wolken claimed that a new college football season schedule needs to be dreamed up in order to handle the threat of climate change.

In response to a Wednesday ESPN article exploring whether a reimagined college football season calendar could be a good idea, Wolken tweeted that “extreme heat” and “climate change” make this idea completely necessary.

The ESPN article in question polled “decision-makers” within the sport and “those who would be directly impacted” weigh the “pros and cons of such theoretical changes.”

Regardless of his actual decision-making relevance with the college football world, Wolken gave a ringing endorsement to shifting the schedule around in order to deal with climate change on Thursday.

An ACC logo is seen on a yardage marker during the college football game between the Clemson Tigers and the Louisville Cardinals on November

“The pillow is for a restful sleep and not designed for extended periods,” Scott Boras tells The Athletics.

One of the most powerful sports agents in the world, the former baseball player turned leading talent broker is also an inventor.

“The ‘pillow contract’? Yeah, I created that,” he says.

But what are they, how do they work and why are they becoming more relevant in English football?

Take Jesse Lingard’s one-year deal at Nottingham Forest, for example.

His stock was high after a successful loan spell at West Ham in 2020-21 but then his final year at Manchester United didn’t showcase his talents in the way he would have wished. Instead of taking a longer-term deal elsewhere — David Moyes wanted him back at the London Stadium — he chose to sign a 12-month, highly lucrative deal at newly-promoted Forest.

Lingard, 29, has signed a one-year deal at Forest (Photo:

Bayern Munich star Joshua Kimmich scored a goal against Eintracht Frankfurt© AFP

One of the highlights of the annual Athlon Sports college football preview is the section that accompanies each team page and allows opposing coaches to anonymously dish, or diss, on various programs throughout the country.

The printed editions hit newsstands in June at the cost of $11.99 per copy. The Intermountain West region edition features BYU quarterback Jaren Hall and Utah QB Cam Rising on the cover, along with Colorado safety Isaiah Lewis.

recently, Athlon posted the “Scouting the Cougars” segment on its free websitewith some additional commentary.

Full disclosure: I write the BYU preview article for the magazine, along with the depth chart, rising star and other features, and have done so the past three years. However, I am not involved in the “what anonymous coaches are saying” segment and am not told the identity of those coaches.

Here’s what the anonymous coaches said about the Cougars this