Pat Macwilliams News Today

BY: ANDREW COLTON | Editor and Publisher

Good morning! The NCAA’s decision to replace Mark Emmert with Charlie Baker is a belated attempt to close the Pandora’s box it opened when it allowed players to benefit from their name, image and likeness (NIL). “The major goal for 2023 is to get help...

Since the NCAA removed the ban for student-athlete compensation in July 2021, the NIL era has quickly blossomed in college athletics. Student-athletes have now been afforded avenues to receive compensation for the use of their name, image or...

Since the NCAA removed the ban for student-athlete compensation in July 2021, the NIL era has quickly blossomed in college athletics. Student-athletes have now been afforded avenues to receive compensation for the use of their name, image or...

Good morning!A puff of white smoke floated over UMass athletic director Ryan Bamford’s office last week. New coach? Nope, just some kid vaping behind the Mullins Center. Bamford’s announcement he was embarking on a nationwide search for a coach to...

At the spur of the moment on Sunday I hopped in the car, turned on the Red Sox game and drove through Brattleboro and Wilmington, past the towering Bennington Monument and across the Hudson River to Saratoga Race Course.Upstate New York looks a lot...