A La Niña winter just started, but it isn't expected to last long. National forecasters are already looking ahead to the spring season.

“He’s a pro,” Baylor coach Scott Drew said of Veesaar. “First time I saw him on film, I was like, ‘He’s a pro.’ I don’t know how Tommy (Lloyd) does it year in and year out, he finds them dudes, develops them, does a great job.”

California, Illinois and New York are shrinking. Texas and Florida are growing rapidly. With America’s population shifting from reliably Democratic states to areas controlled by Republicans, Democrats are facing a demographic time bomb that could reduce their path to winning the U.

Most states still levy taxes on their residents at graduated rates, but not here. In fact, Arizona helped to kick off a mini flat-tax "revolution."

Wisconsin transfer offensive lineman James Durand announced his commitment to Western Illinois on Wednesday. The former Badger is one of 24 scholarship players to enter the transfer portal, pending Xavier Lucas’ departure. Durand is the 20th to announce his new destination.

Nebraska football won't be getting everyone they thought out of the transfer portal. Arizona defensive back Marquis Groves-Killebrew has withdrawn his name from

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Many expectations of how the 12-team format would work have not played out as planned, challenging many calls for immediate changes.

An athletic director has a proposal for taming what many say is a transfer-portal system run amok in college sports.