Unrivaled women’s basketball league is valued at $650 million after new funding round

August 27, 2026

Unrivaled has raised funds that put its valuation at $650 million, the 3-on-3 women's basketball league announced Wednesday. That's nearly double its valuation from a year ago, when the league closed a Series B funding round. Unrivaled also announced that the portion of the company owned by its players is valued at nearly $200 million. The league said the player equity pool has increased 550% since it was launched. Unrivaled president Alex Bazzell said the Series C funding is more than all of the league's other funding combined. It will help strengthen the league, which will begin ...

Quite a couple: Spouses Elina Svitolina and Gael Monfils reach US Open mixed doubles semifinals

August 27, 2026

NEW YORK — Elina Svitolina and Gael Monfils have both gone far but never all the way to the U.S. Open title. Maybe the married couple can finally win a trophy together. The spouses made quite a pair on the court Tuesday, becoming the first team into the mixed doubles semifinals by edging ...

The Big Ten and SEC have taken a stand. Can an NFL player come back to college anyway?

August 27, 2026

These used to be among the fundamental facts about going to college in America: College lasts four years. And though that timeline had been flexible when it comes to sports, there was never much debate over the notion that once a player moved on to the pros, their days as a college athlete ...

Big Ten plans to address eligibility after TE waived by NFL team intends to join LSU, AP source says

August 26, 2026

Big Ten administrators were scheduled to meet Tuesday to discuss player eligibility a day after the agent for a player waived by the Cleveland Browns announced his client planned to go to LSU to use his fifth season of eligibility, The Associated Press has learned. A person familiar with the ...

London follows Dublin as college football host city. Are more European locations in game plan?

August 26, 2026

LONDON — College football abroad ain't easy. Brian Dubiski knows. In 1988, he was a Texas Tech defensive back on a flight to Tokyo preparing to face Barry Sanders and Oklahoma State. Hours after winning the Heisman Trophy, Sanders rushed for 4 touchdowns and more than 300 yards in the ...

Special rule change to help Jai Arrow reach 100 games for Rabbitohs in National Rugby League

August 26, 2026

Motor neurone disease is not likely to stop Jai Arrow trying to bring up a career milestone in Australia's National Rugby League. The NRL is planning an exception to its rules to allow the veteran forward a chance to be on the field for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in his 99th and 100th rugby league games for the club, if only for a few moments. Arrow, 31, had retired from the sport to concentrate on his treatment and family when he was diagnosed in May with motor neurone disease, which MND Australia describes as an umbrella term for a group of progressive neurological conditions where ...