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A grand sporting experiment is upon us, channeling back our memories to days of last-call craziness, Final Fours and even a football national title. Last week, the Western Athletic Conference announced it plans to start FCS football in the fall of 2021, bringing back a sport it abandoned in 2012 after 51 years. The same expansion will potentially jolt the WAC into the conversation for multiple at-large teams in the NCAA basketball tournament...

Photo by David Dennis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images As expected college basketball during the pandemic has become a mix of horrifying and humdrum. Keyontae Johnson collapsing mid-game and later being found to have myocarditis will end being the defining moment of the regular season for a lot of people. Meanwhile, some aspects of the season have given a sense of normalcy to life, even as non-conference schedules have been stripped down. There’s something calming about checking the SoCon standings or wondering if the Saint Louis Billikens are any good. As my friend Ben Goren wrote in a dif...

Mid-Season Reaction: Arkansas Hoops + SEC Thoughts Share this story Phil Ellsworth Here we are 8 games into the Arkansas Men’s Basketball season and I feel no different than I did 4 weeks ago when the season began. This Arkansas team didn’t disappoint or do anything extraordinary. 8 wins by double digits against Mid or Low-Major teams. They did what they should do, but what really matters is how it happened. Dominating wins over Mississippi Valley State, Lipscomb, and Southern. Grind it out victories against North Texas, Texas-Arlington, and Abilene Christian. Lastly, 2 comeback wins ove...

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Ethan Ferba had big plans for the offseason. The Hobart diver got a taste of competing against the best when he finished 26th at the IHSAA state swimming and diving competition last February in Indianapolis. When Ferba returned to Northwest Indiana, he sat down with Hobart diving coach Katharine Rinas and the two put together a summer workout plan that would allow the then-sophomore to take his diving to the next level. Then COVID-19 hit and pools around the Region shutdown, including Hobart’s sparkling new swim facility. “When everything with COVID happened, it was bad,” Ferba...