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“A step in the right direction”: College football adopts a single transfer portal

SMITH SLYE, Evergreen sports co-editor • October 8, 2025

The NCAA finalized a change to the transfer portal Tuesday that may make waves in the coming offseason. College football is officially ditching its dual-portal system and adopting a single winter window...

COLUMN: I support paying college athletes. I don’t support the new House settlement.

Connor Seuferling, Evergreen digital managing editor • June 10, 2025

Even though the NIL era began in 2021 with the Alston v. NCAA decision and the NCAA's interim NIL policy, college athletes secured an even bigger win on Friday when Judge Claudia Wilken officially approved...

COLUMN l The Committee got it right and wrong

LEVI COOVERT, Evergreen Editor-in-Chief • December 9, 2024

When the College Football Playoff committee released its final rankings and playoff bracket on Sunday, there was a massive controversy among fans of college football over who should get the final spot...

Post Week 5 Top 25 Rankings

JETT HATCH, Evergreen sports co-editor • October 3, 2024

Alabama Texas Ohio State Tennessee Georgia Oregon Penn State Missouri Michigan Ole Miss USC LSU Miami Notre Dame Clemson Iowa State Oklahoma Utah ...

Gonzaga set to join rebuilding Pac-12

LEVI COOVERT, Evergreen Editor-in-Chief • October 2, 2024

Gonzaga University is set to join the Pac-12 in 2026, bringing a top-tier basketball program to the rebuilding conference. Gonzaga announced on Oct. 1 that they will be leaving the West Coast Conference...

Post-week 5 College Football Playoff projection

JETT HATCH, Evergreen sports co-editor • October 1, 2024

Alabama takes over the top spot; The Big 12 carousel continues to spin around. *Seeds: Alabama Ohio State Miami BYU Texas Tennessee Georgia Oregon Penn State Michigan ...

THUMMEL: The current NIL framework nationwide is unsustainable

ZACH THUMMEL • February 28, 2024

In 2021, the NCAA approved compensation for college student-athletes based on their name, image and likeness (NIL). As of Friday, U.S. District Judge Clifton Corker of Tennessee ruled that the NCAA...

WSU wins back Cougar name over BYU in volleyball

BRANDON WILLMAN, Multimedia editor • September 10, 2023

Late in the fourth set, holding onto a 2-1 lead in sets, No. 13 WSU built a lead of 23-14 and looked poised to take down No. 8 BYU to claim that they deserve the Cougars name. By then, WSU’s Pia Timmer...

The good, the bad, the ugly of transfer portal

BRANDON WILLMAN, Multimedia editor • December 9, 2022

With college athletes now earning money from their name, image and likeness, there is even more incentive to move to the bigger market schools for high-level athletes. While name, image and likeness is...

WSU faces Colorado State Saturday

TREVOR JUNT, Evergreen deputy sports editor • September 15, 2022

Coming off of a historic win where the Cougs beat Wisconsin, they hope to keep building their program up. Currently, expectations are as high as they have been since they were ranked No. 7 during...

You get an upset and you get an upset

BRANDON WILLMAN, Multimedia editor • September 14, 2022

Upsets, upsets, upsets, they are what keeps the college football season one of the most interesting sports to watch week-in and week-out. Week two was the week of the upset, usually, that never happens...

NCAA playoff expansion will not fix football

Hayden Stinchfield, Evergreen sports co-editor • September 8, 2022

Since the current playoff system was put in place in 2014, college football fans have been wanting expansion, to make the Playoff National Championship into a system similar to the NFL or NBA. On Sept....

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