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Pac-12 website now a lonely place after shedding departing members
Everything about conference realignment and the total annihilation of the history and tradition of college athletics is coming into focus with the new football season fast approaching. For the Pac-12, that means what once was the Conference of Champions has now become a ghost town.
As Pac-12 Network has shut down operations, some staff and on-air talent have moved over to the Big Ten Network to provide coverage of the four west coast teams that have joined their traditional Rose Bowl counterparts (Oregon, Washington, USC, UCLA).
The so-called “Four Corners” schools are now a part of the Big XII including the returning Colorado as well as Utah, Arizona, and Arizona State.
And somewhat incomprehensibly, California and Stanford are now part of the Atlantic Coast Conference (with SMU) in perhaps the most bizarre realignment of them all.
That’s left the Pac-12 with just two unwanted castoffs, Oregon State and Washington State. And with many of these realignment deals now becoming official ahead of the 2024-2025 academic calendar, the fallout is becoming very real.
The most stark realization is a trip to the Pac-12 website, which is now dedicated to the remaining Pac-2… and not much else.
The banner headline is the CW-Fox home football schedule that was struck earlier this year to gain distribution nationally for the former Power 5 schools. That story is dated all the way back to May 14th.
The news archives are stories that are only dedicated to the two remaining with the last story referencing any of the departed schools being the Pac-12 rowing championships won by Stanford (women) and Washington (men) respectively.
The only functioning schedule on the site is the current football schedules for Oregon State and Washington State with pretty much everything else unknown at this point.
Finally, here’s what the bottom banner of the website looks like with links to OSU and WSU athletics.
It’s a sad reminder of what’s been lost through conference realignment and also a jarring reality of the future that faces the Pac-2. If they can’t strike a deal with the Mountain West or another conference to keep the brand in tact, it might not be too long before it’s totally gone for good.
A 26-year-old man had an argument with a co-worker before allegedly fatally shooting the colleague in Washington Heights, prosecutors said Friday.
Bobby Martin, who was charged with first-degree murder Thursday, made his first appearance Friday in Cook County court.
Martin, is accused of killing his co-worker, Antoine Alexander, 32, in a parking lot at 9411 S Ashland Ave about 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, according to Chicago police.
Prosecutors said Martin and Alexander worked together at an armed security company and got into a verbal altercation inside the guard shack on Tuesday afternoon. During the altercation, prosecutors said Alexander removed his bullet proof vest and threw it to the ground. A witness, another co-worker, then told the defendant and the victim to take the altercation outside.
After stepping outside, the defendant pulled his firearm and fired one shot into the victims abdomen, prosecutors said. The victim’s firearm was holstered at the time of the argument and the shooting. The defendant fled the scene and came into contact with another co-worker, whom he told that he had just shot Alexander.
Alexander was then taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead.
Martin was arrested by authorities three blocks from his home approximately 20 minutes after the shooting, prosecutors said.
Martin was detained and will appear in court again on March 17, authorities said.
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Trinity Rodman signs record deal with Washington Spirit
USWNT forward Trinity Rodman signed a three-year deal with the NWSL’s Washington Spirit. The deal makes Rodman the highest-paid female footballer in the world.
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Washington Spirit goalkeeper Aubrey Kingsbury has announced that she and her husband Matt are expecting a baby in July.
The couple made the announcement in a video on the Spirit’s social media channels, holding a baby goalkeeper jersey on the pitch at Audi Field.
Kingsbury becomes the most recent Spirit star to go on maternity leave, following defender Casey Krueger, midfielder Andi Sullivan and forward Ashley Hatch.
Sullivan gave birth to daughter Millie in July, while Hatch welcomed her son Leo in January.
Krueger announced she was pregnant with her second child in October.
Kingsbury has served as the Spirit’s starting goalkeeper since 2018, and has been named the NWSL Goalkeeper of the Year twice (2019 and 2021).
The 34-year-old has two caps with the U.S. women’s national team, and was named to the 2023 World Cup roster.
The club captain will leave a major void for the Spirit, who have finished as NWSL runner-up in back-to-back seasons.
Sandy MacIver and Kaylie Collins are expected to compete for the starting role while Kingsbury is on maternity leave.
The Spirit kick off their 2026 campaign on March 13 against the Portland Thorns.
YAKIMA, Wash. — Yakima could soon take a major step toward redesigning Sixth Avenue after the Washington State Public Works Board awarded the city a $985,600 loan.
The loan was approved for the design engineering phase of the Sixth Avenue project. The funding can also be used along Sixth Avenue for utility replacement and updated ADA use.
The Yakima City Council must decide whether to accept the award. If the council accepts it, the city’s engineering work will move forward with the design of Sixth Avenue.
The cost of installing trolley lines is excluded from the plan. The historic trolleys would need to raise the funds required to add trolley lines.
The award is scheduled to be discussed during next week’s City Council meeting.
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