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Northern Illinois said Friday it has not received a "formal offer to consider a change" in its conference amid media reports that it could be a target of the Mountain West.

The Mountain West has received signed commitments from Air Force, UNLV, New Mexico, Nevada, San Jose State, Wyoming and Hawai'i to stay in the conference.

A group of athletes led by Big Ten women's basketball players sent a letter to NCAA president Charlie Baker asking the association to drop its proposed restrictions on the types of NIL deals players are allowed to sign with third-party groups.

Air Force and UNLV are expected to remain in the Mountain West, sources confirmed to ESPN.

The rebuilding Pac-12 Conference filed a lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday challenging the legality of a "poaching penalty" included in a football scheduling agreement between it and the Mountain West Conference signed in December.

UNLV is expected to re-engage in conversations with the Pac-12 after their commitment to the Mountain West earlier in the day was not formalized, sources told ESPN ...

Utah State is set to agree to a deal to become the seventh member of the newly formed Pac-12, sources told ESPN.

Some of the highest profile targets of the Pac-12's expansion have rebuffed their interest, as Memphis, Tulane, USF and UTSA all publicly committed to stay in the American Athletic Conference on Monday afternoon.

At least two students at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania have been suspended from the swim team after a report that a racial slur was scratched onto a student's body, officials said.

A dozen Tufts University men's lacrosse players have been diagnosed with rhabdomyolysis, a rare muscle injury, after participating in a voluntary, supervised workout led by a university graduate who had completed Navy SEAL training.