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How Women’s Basketball Became the Hottest Thing in College Sports

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For years, television ratings were taken as a proxy of the popularity of college basketball, and the numbers for women’s games weren’t very good. In 2019, to pick a typical year, about four million people watched Baylor beat Notre Dame for the women’s championship title, whereas nearly twenty million watched the University of Virginia’s men’s … Read more

The Michigan Sign-Stealing Story Is the Perfect College-Football Scandal

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There is a man, a real man, named Connor Stalions. He is, or was, reportedly, a used-vacuum-cleaner salesman. (“Returning scam vacuum,” one unhappy Amazon reviewer wrote of his product.) He is, or was, also an analyst for the University of Michigan’s football team. Earlier this fall, the N.C.A.A. informed the Big Ten, Michigan’s conference, that … Read more