Source: Florida State to discuss future with ACC
Florida State will hold a Board of Trustees meeting on Friday and a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press the future of the athletic department and its affiliation with the ACC will be discussed.
The board is expected to consider a possible exit strategy that could involve legal action against the ACC and contracts that bind the conference’s members for 12 more years, according to the person, who spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity.
Florida State leaders have made it known they are unhappy with the school’s current situation in the ACC, where revenue distribution lags way behind the payouts to schools in the SEC and Big Ten. That gap is likely to grow substantially in the near future as new media rights deals kick in for the SEC and Big Ten while the ACC is locked into a deal with ESPN that still has more than a decade left.
Earlier this month, Florida State won the ACC football title game but became the first Power Five conference champion to finish undefeated and still be left out of the College Football Playoff.
Vlhova uses frenetic final run to beat Shiffrin
COURCHEVEL, FRANCE » Mikaela Shiffrin 2, Petra Vlhova 2. The two best slalom skiers on the women’s World Cup continued their rivalry Thursday, as Vlhova used a frenetic final run to edge out Shiffrin in tough conditions at a night race affected by rain and fog.
They have now both won two slaloms this season. Shiffrin, the 2014 Olympic champion, leads the standings with 330 points; Vlhova, the 2022 Olympic gold medalist, trails by 50 points in second. The season consists of 11 slaloms.
On Thursday, Vlhova trailed the American by 0.17 seconds after the opening run but posted the fastest secondrun time to lead the race.
Oregon St., Washington St. agree to deal
Oregon State and Washington State announced Thursday they have reached an agreement with 10 departing Pac-12 schools on revenue distribution for 2023-24 that ends a legal battle sparked by conference realignment.
Last week, Oregon State and Washington State were given control of the Pac-12 and assets when the state Supreme Court of Washington declined to review a lower court’s decision to grant the schools a preliminary injunction.
Financial terms of the settlement were not released, but in a joint statement Washington State and Oregon State said the departing members will forfeit a portion of distributions for this school year and guarantees to cover a specific portion of “potential future liabilities.”
Soccer’s Super League revived by court ruling
European soccer was rocked by a court ruling that revived the rebel Super League on Thursday, though it wasn’t clear whether any clubs were joining Real Madrid and Barcelona in the breakaway project.
The European Union’s top court said UEFA and FIFA acted unlawfully to block Super League. The ruling was praised by Madrid which, along with Barcelona, is leading the fight to form a rival competition to the Champions League.