Football

7/2/2026 |  Penn State's Beaver Stadium Could Overtake Michigan Stadium as Nation's Largest (Athletic Business) Michigan Stadium’s nearly three-decade reign as the “Big House," the largest stadium in the country, might be in jeopardy.
That's according to Angelique Chengelis of The Detroit News, who reported Wednesday that Penn State athletic director Pat Kraft said this week that Beaver Stadium's ongoing $700 million renovation, which includes new bleacher seats on the west side of the stadium, could increase capacity from 106,572 to around 109,000. By the time Penn State faces USC on Oct. 10, Kraft expects all the upper bleachers to be in place, and that could potentially surpass Michigan Stadium’s capacity.

7/2/2026 |  Welcome to the Pac-12, Version 2.0: How we got here, what to know about each team, 2026 contenders (CBS Sports) As of July 1, the Pac-12 is officially back. It barely resembles the conference that ruled the West Coast for the better part of a century, instead emerging as a new league born of an unlikely resurrection.

7/2/2026 |  Agent's Take: How Rams can protect themselves when making a huge financial commitment to Puka Nacua (CBS Sports) The most enlightened NFL teams will attempt to sign Pro Bowl and All-Pro players on rookie deals to contract extensions at the earliest possible instance. That's what the Seattle Seahawks did in March with 2025 NFL Offensive Player of the Year Jaxon Smith-Njigba, who was a 2023 first-round pick. Smith-Njigba became the league's highest-paid wide receiver on a four-year, $168.6 million extension, averaging $42.15 million per year, with a wide receiver-record $120,067,996 in overall guarantees. 

7/2/2026 |  "He's Going to Get Hammered": Urban Meyer Warns Lane Kiffin of $91M LSU Consequences (Yahoo Sports) LSU fans know from Lane Kiffin’s time at Ole Miss that he wins. The controversies and the off-field stuff sometimes come as a package. For Kiffin, though, LSU isn’t a job like any he’s had before. The pressure cooker environment can drive any good head coach mad, as Urban Meyer points out. On top of that are the expectations of immediate success.

7/1/2026 |  NFL's mysterious one-point safety: The bizarre scoring play that's never happened and how it finally could (CBS Sports) If you've watched the NFL for any length of time, you've almost certainly seen every possible scoring play.
Well, except for one, and that's because it's never happened before: the one-point safety. 
I know what you're thinking, and yes, a safety is usually worth two points. But there is a situation where it's only worth one point, and it has NEVER happened in the NFL.