WALCOTT AHEAD IN SHOWDOWN
By BRENT STUBBS
Chief Sports Editor
IN the first of a six-game showdown between two of the top Bahamians in the Major League pipeline, Sebastian Walcott and his Frisco RoughRiders got the better of Kristian Robinson and his Amarillo Sod Poodles.
In their Double-A Affiliate series opener on Tuesday night at Hodgetown in Amarillo, Texas, Walcott and the RoughRiders pulled off an 7-5 triumph over Robinson and his Sod Poodles.
The 18-year-old Walcott, batting second in Frisco’s line-up, went 1-for-4 with a run batted in, a run scored and. strike out for a .342 batting clip, while Robinson, 24, leading off
for Amarillo, was 1-for-5 with a run scored and two strikeouts.
With the win, Frisco improved to 27-18 to remain on top of the Texas South Division with the loss dropping Texas to 20-25 for fourth place.
Walcott, playing shortstop, got the party started in the top of the first inning when he was hit by a pitch with one out. He advanced to second on a walk to Abimelec Ortiz and they both moved up to third and second respectively on a balk with Josh Hatcher batting.
Harcher eventually struck out to kill the rally. Then in the bottom of the frame, Robinson scored the first run of the game and the only one for Amarillo. He singled, got to second on a wild pitch by pitcher
Daniel Missaki, got to third on Gavin Conticello’s ground out and came home on LuJames Groover’s RBI single. But it didn’t take Walcott that long to respond. He came right back in the second with two out and his RoughRiders leading
3-1, doubled on a line drive to left field to plate Aaron Zavala. Then he caught a ride home on Abimelec Ortiz’s single for a 4-1 advantage. The Sod Poodles cut the deficit in half, 4-2, in the bottom of the frame. But the RoughRiders pushed it
FLYING THE VICTORY FLAGS WINNING WINDSOR
By BRENT STUBBS Chief Sports Editor
bstubbs@tribunemedia.net
WITH a complete dominance from start to finish, Windsor School put the icing on a perfect season by winning The Bahamas Football Association’s inaugural Samuel P Haven junior high girls national soccer championship title with a 4-0 shutout over the St Andrew’s Hurricanes. Yesterday at the Roscoe Davies Developmental Centre, most valuable player Emma Johnston
ahead 5-2 in the third. With two runs in the bottom, Amarillo trimmed the margin to 5-4. In the fifth, but Frisco got another run and they added their final run in the seventh to stay ahead. The Sod Poodles closed out the game with their final
run in the ninth, but it was a little too late as the RoughRiders held on for the ein. Game two of the series was played last night, but no results were available. They play game three tonight, game four on Friday, game five on Saturday and the finale on Sunday.
booted in the first goal in the eighth minute and Isabelle Kennedy and Emma Heller kept the pressure on with their respective goals in the 17th and 29th minutes for a comfortable 3-0 margin at the half. For good measure, Haller added her second, the team’s fourth and the game’s final goal in the 42nd minute of the second. But Windsor had a few more chances to get into the but, only to fall short as they celebrated with their historic feat.
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DRAGONS ROAR
By BRENT STUBBS
Chief Sports Editor bstubbs@tribunemedia.net
ON the strength of Dirk Simmons’ hat trick, the Lyford Cay Dragons prevailed as the Bahamas Football Association’s inaugural Samuel P Haven Jr national junior boys soccer champions. Lyford Cay did it last night with a hard fought 3-2 victory over the Anatol Rodgers Timberwolves at the Roscoe Davies
Developmental Center at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex. After winning the Bahamas Association of Independent Secondary Schools’ junior boys title, coach Daniel Weightman said his Dragons’ team waited all year to be crowned the national champions. “It was a really good game. Hats off to our opponents. Anatol Rodgers played an amazing game,”
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Katie Roach, who was eventually dosed by the “chilly” water from the cooler from her players, said it was just simply a matter of executing their plans to the letter.
“We had to make some adjustments because it was extremely hot out here. The girls really felt it,” Roach said. “We tried to slow the game down a bit and passed the ball around more. but it’s still so surreal. We’re extremely proud to be in this position and to have won the inaugural junior national championship title.”
There’s no doubt that Windsor School was prepared to go for the whole hog and Roach said once they stuck to their game plan, they were confident that they would have prevailed.
In accepting both the MVP and the team’s trophy,
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Weightman said. “It was back and forth. Those are exciting games.
“But I’m really proud of the boys. They worked really hard leading up to this. We had a break after our season leading up to this, but they really wanted it and they were able to come through with the victory.” Simmons, named the game’s most valuable player, booted in his goal to equalise the score at 1-1 in the 15th minute and then got a header in the 20th minute to give the Dragons a 2-1 lead. But in a “rough and tumble” second half that saw the Timberwolves fall apart after getting hit with one penalty after the other, Simmons booted in the final goal to seal the deal.
Unselfishly, Simmons took the time out to spread the joy around with his entire team as they celebrated.
“It wasn’t just me. It was kind of everyone here. We kind of put our hearts into it and we left everything on the field,” Simmons said. “It feels good. Our first junior nationals and our second final.”
Wth the game tied at 2-2 after the half half, Simmons said they knew it was now or never so they
Johnston said they played like true champions.
“It was a good game. Everyone played really well,” she said. “We just wanted it.”
Johnston said it was good to come out of both the Bahamas Association of Independent Secondary Schools’ championships and the BSF’s nationals as the undefeated champions. Now she said they can celebrate because “Everyone played well. I couldn’t ask or more.”
St Andrew’s gave it a gallant effort, coming close on a few attempts, but despite not getting in na shot, coach Kathryn Carswell.
“I think they worked hard throughout. We didn’t have any subs at the end because our goalkeeper had to go off a little bit faint, but they still carried on,” she said. “We would have loved to win, but Windsor played a really good game. They worked very hard during the season, so I’m really proud of them.”
DRAGONS ROAR WINNING WINDSOR
put everything they had to go out and scored in the second half.
“It feels great. It wasn’t all just me. It was a team effort,” he stated. “So I give lots of thanks to them.” Anatol Rodgers broke the ice with Garwin Vasu scoring the first goal of the game in the 13th minute. Then Khaleb Valbrum added their final goal in the 22nd minute to level the score going into the break.
But in the second half, an irate coach Cleon Camegie said his Timberwolves got cut down as they were hit by one penalty after the other and they never regained their composure or intensity.
“You have different types of games. You have guys where you’re not the dominant team and you have to struggle for your results,” he said. “Lyford Cay was the dominant team, they were moving the ball and controlling their spaces.
“Our guys were struggling so when you’re struggling, you need other things to work for you. We were not getting calls. I see my guys are being pulled back all over the field and nothing was called.” For the first time since he was winning the championship since 2017, he said he’s never had to complain about the officiating, but he felt his guys were treated unfairly.
18th Eleuthera Doubles Tournament a success
THE 18th annual Tim’s Refrigeration Eleuthera Doubles Tournament was termed a grand success, drawing players, spectators and supporters from across The Bahamas for a weekend of spirited competition and community pride.
Tournament Results
Men’s doubles champions: Jethro Armstrong and Tom Gluckman.
Runners-up: Tournament sponsor Tim Dames and Chris Evans.
Ladies doubles
champions: Laura Paine and Andrielle Gardner. Runners-up: Della Kelly and Meredith Culmer-Atwood.
Mixed doubles champions: Horatio Green and Andrielle Gardner. Runners-up: Della Kelly and Roy Rivera.
The tournament was directed by coach Hartie Johnson, the president of the Eleuthera Tennis Association (ETA) and Elva Nixon, the ETA Summer Camp manager. Their
dedication ensured another smooth, competitive, and joyful event.
Following the final matches, a trophy presentation was held to honor the champions and runners-up. A plaque of appreciation was presented to Dames for his continuous support and sponsorship of the Eleuthera Double Tennis Tournament.
There was a fundraising celebration which raised $10,000 at the home of Lisa and Allan Penn. Lisa
Penn, Fundraising Chair of the Eleuthera Tennis Association, hosted the event, which raised an impressive $10,000 to support ETA’s youth programmes, coaching, scholarships, and facility improvements. Lisa Penn was also bestowed with a plaque for her hard work.
“We were thrilled to celebrate a great tournament and even more excited to see the outpouring of support for the future of tennis on Eleuthera,” said Lisa
Penn. “It was truly a night of community spirit and generosity.”
The ETA extended heartfelt thanks to the sponsors whose support made this event possible: Legacy Sponsors: Martin Solomon; Island Nest –Sarah Gardner; Safari Builders – MJohn MacKinnon & Thuraya Ghanem Champion Sponsors: Wesley Lambert and Casuarina McKinney Lambert; Norma’s Gift Shop – Tracey Knowles;
The Abaco Tennis Association and Jimmy’s Liquor Store. The ETA remains committed to growing the game and providing meaningful opportunities for youth development through sport. Events like these highlight what’s possible when community, passion, and purpose come together. The BLTA congratulates the ETA on another successful Tim’s Refrigeration Doubles tournament.
12 NEW FACES IN RANKS OF NATION’S COACHES
AFTER four days of rigorous and structured training in the classroom and on the courts, a total of 12 participants have emerged as The Bahamas’ newest certified coaches.
The Play Tennis Coaching Class of 2025 boasts seven females, four have played collegiate tennis and two of whom represented at the Billie Jean King Cup.
There were five males with two colleagues and a Davis Cup representative.
Approximately 60 percent of the class have served on national teams as players. They are now on a path to serving the country in other capacities and this is highly commendable.
“We are witnessing again great participation across our islands as Eleuthera, Grand Bahama and New Providence were all in attendance,” the BLTA wrote.
“As the BLTA will continue to make these training opportunities available we encourage persons to take advantage of them. We hope to utilise the coaches where possible in our grassroot programs including our Play Tennis Bahamas program.”
The BLTA thanked International Tennis Federation (ITF) tutor John Goede, who have graciously and ably led the course. Goede, who is also the development officer for the Caribbean, has been instrumental in the coaching course concluding so successfully.
“We thank the newly minted coaches who have taken the time and applied themselves to the coursework and training,” the BLTA wrote. “We hope they will implement all that was taught.”
This marks the half year
mark where the BLTA hosted many successful competitions, conducted coaches training and made history with president Perry Newton elected as director of the tennis regional body, Cotecc.
“We are excited as we move into our next event on the calendar: the 2025
Junior Tennis Nationals June 14th and 15th and 20th-25th,” the BLTA wrote. “Junior players ages U10, U12, U14, U16, and U18 will all converge at the BLTA’s National Tennis Centre to compete in the biggest junior event on the calendar.”
The coaches are pictured with their certifications presented by Goede, Newton and vice-president Chilean Burrows.
The BLTA congratulates the new coaches: Simone Pratt, Anthony Burrows Jr, Sierra Donaldson, Donte Armbrister, Donesha Gibson, Elanqua Griffin, Edward Turner, Rachel Thompson, Cailan Bowe, Theophilus Weir, Genesis Sweeting and Shaneicka Griffin.
“We are happy you have successfully completed your training and look forward to your continued positive contributions to tennis,” the BLTA wrote.
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CHELSEA FIRST THANKS TO EUROPEAN TROPHY
By STEVE DOUGLAS
Sports Writer
CHELSEA finally has a trophy to show for the unprecedented levels of spending under its American owners, even if it’s hardly one they’d have craved.
The English club produced an impressive second-half rally to beat Real Betis 4-1 in the final of the Conference League on Wednesday, becoming in the process the first team to have all four of UEFA’s club competitions in its trophy collection.
Aside from the 1971 and 1998 titles in the nowdefunct Cup Winners’ Cup, Chelsea’s other European silverware — the Champions League in 2012 and 2021 and the Europa League in 2013 and 2019 — came in the trophy-laden tenure of Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.
The Abramovich era ended in 2022 following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and Chelsea was bought by a consortium fronted by Los Angeles Dodgers part-owner Todd Boehly that has since spent around $1.3 billion on new players in a high-risk move to remodel the squad with mostly young stars.
Some of them delivered in the turnaround against Betis, with Enzo Fernandez and Nicolas Jackson converting pinpoint crosses from Cole Palmer in the 65th and 70th minutes, respectively, before substitute Jadon Sancho and Moises Caicedo added more goals in Wroclaw, Poland.
Boehly went on the pitch after the final whistle to congratulate Chelsea’s players after club captain Reece James lifted the trophy to a backdrop of ticker tape and loud roars from teammates in the middle of the field.
“Coming into this competition, it was something we had to win,” James said of the Conference League, Europe’s oft-maligned third-tier competition.
“Next season we go again in the Champions League.”
That elite competition is where Chelsea feels it belongs and a fourthplace finish in the Premier League, secured on Sunday, sealed a return to the Champions League.
Not a bad few days, then, for the London team and its Italian manager, Enzo Maresca, at the end of his first year in charge.
BETIS COMES UP SHORT
Playing in its first European final, Betis went
through Abdessamad Ezzalzouli’s goal in the ninth minute and was the better team in a first half of few chances. The Seville club faded in the second half, however, as Chelsea’s strength off the bench showed. One of those influential substitutes was James, a 25-year-old right back who joined the club at the age of 6 and has suffered many long-term
injuries in recent years. He said he was “devastated” not to be picked to start the final but had a big impact when he came on as a halftime replacement. “In the first half we were
flat,” James said. “The game didn’t go our way early on and it looked like it took a lot out of us. We needed a reaction in the second half, and we got it.” The result ended a remarkable run of successes for Spanish teams in European men’s title matches. Before this game, all 23 continental finals featuring Spanish clubs since the start of the 2001-02 season had been won by a Spanish team. That included four all-Spanish matchups. Betis couldn’t maintain it in a bid to win a European title for the first time.
PALMER MAKES THE DIFFERENCE
Palmer is one of the shining lights in Chelsea’s team and the England playmaker inspired the turnaround by setting up Fernandez’s equalizer with an inviting, inswinging cross that the Argentina midfielder glanced past flat-footed Betis goalkeeper Adrian. Palmer then delivered a brilliant piece of skill to spin his marker with a feint and cross with his weaker right foot to Jackson, who bundled the ball home off his shoulder. Betis folded and Chelsea flooded forward for more goals, with Jackson over-running the ball when through one-on-one with Adrian. Sancho made no mistake by cutting inside and curling a shot into the far corner in the 83rd for the last goal of his loan spell from Manchester United that might be made permanent this summer. Caicedo — arguably Chelsea’s star player this season — got in on the act with a deflected stoppagetime strike from the edge of the area. “We struggled a bit first half, second half we were much better and now we are very happy,” Maresca said.
The match was preceded by fan disorder in the Polish city that led to 28 people being arrested. Police used stun grenades and a water cannon against the teams’ fans who were disturbing public order in the city, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
ENGLISH DOUBLE
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CHELSEA’S Nicolas Jackson celebrates after scoring during the match between Real Betis and Chelsea in Poland last night.
Photo: Petr David Josek/AP
REAL Betis players celebrate after Betis’ Abde Ezzalzouli, centre, scored his side’s opening goal.
Photo: Czarek Sokolowski/AP
Belmont Park will host
Cup in 2027
event
By STEPHEN WHYNO
AP Sports Writer
THE Breeders’ Cup world championships are returning to New York in 2027 at the rebuilt Belmont Park, following a massive renovation project to revitalize one of the most important horse racing tracks in the country.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, along with officials from the Breeders’ Cup and the New York Racing Association, announced Wednesday that the track on the edge of Queens and Nassau County on Long Island will stage the event in the fall two years from now.
“We wrote the Governor of New York a letter
in 2023 that simply said, ‘If you build it, we will come,’” Breeders’ Cup Limited President and CEO Drew Fleming said in a phone interview with The Associated Press. “And so we’re very honored to keep our word and have a wonderful Breeders’ Cup world championships here in 2027 to showcase the new development and investment in Belmont Park to our fans from across the globe.” Keeneland in Lexington was revealed as the 2026 host.
Belmont Park was last home to the Breeders’ Cup in 2005, the fourth time in two decades after also being there in 1990, ‘95 and 2001. A goal of the $455 million teardown
and reconstruction was to attract the major event.
“It was always part of the plan: We weren’t going to redevelop Belmont Park without Breeders’ Cup in mind, so it was always part of the initial goals,” NYRA President and CEO David O’Rourke told the AP by phone. “Getting the championships back to New York is big from an economic point of view, and probably one of the most important (things), if not the most important, it gives our trainers and horsemen a chance to compete on their home tracks. I think it’s great. It’s been over 20 years.”
Hochul in a statement said the redevelopment is bringing thousands of jobs and $1 billion in long-term
economic activity to Long Island.
“Thanks to the investments we are making at Belmont Park, the long held dream of bringing the prestigious Breeders’ Cup back to New York will soon be a reality,” Hochul said.
The Breeders’ Cup has been at a Kentucky or California track every year since 2008. Del Mar outside San Diego has it this year as a back-to-back host and for the fourth time since 2017.
Santa Anita outside Los Angeles, Keeneland and Churchill Downs in Louisville — home of the Kentucky Derby — have become the regular sites for the two-day festival featuring the best thoroughbreds in the world and tens of
millions of dollars’ worth of races. It’s shifting back to the Eastern time zone for the next two years.
“California is and has always been a wonderful spot to have the Breeders’ Cup with Santa Anita Park and Del Mar, but one of the missions of the Breeders’ Cup is to grow the sport and one of the ways we do this is hosting world championships at various venues across the United States,” Fleming said, adding that he expects the event to generate $100 million for the New York economy. While NYRA has not yet announced a location for the 2026 Belmont Stakes, the third leg of the Triple Crown is set to return to its old home by 2027 at the
latest, after a multiyear stint at historic Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York during renovations. With the Belmont at Belmont Park shifting back to an annual occurrence, it is possible the track known for greats like Secretariat and Seattle Slew rumbling down the stretch to the finish line with fans roaring might get back in a regular rotation.
“The best part about working for the Breeders’ Cup is that nothing is off the table,” Fleming said. “New York City has some of the finest accommodations and restaurants and entertainment in the world, so it’d be a natural fit that we would be at Belmont Park frequently.”
THIS artist’s rendering provided by New York Racing Association shows the proposed $455m renovation project at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York.
SAINT LIAM, left, with jockey Jerry Bailey up, wins the Breeders’ Cup Classic horse race at Belmont Park.
Photo: Julie Jacobson /AP
ALCARAZ SINGING HIS WAY TO THE NEXT ROUND
By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer
AFTER winning his second-round match Wednesday at the French Open, defending champion Carlos Alcaraz finally got to do something he always wanted: sing to the fans at Roland-Garros.
Alcaraz had beaten Fabian Marozsan of Hungary 6-1, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2, and just completed a brief interview with Mats Wilander on Court Philippe-Chatrier.
So the fans thought that was it, but Alcaraz was not done.
“One thing, one thing. I always wanted to do that. I hope everyone follow me,” the 22-year-old Spaniard said.
Then, leaning into the microphone, he sang the familiar-sounding refrain often belted out by crowds at Roland-Garros.
Perhaps fittingly, it is to the tune of a Spanish paso doble. It goes “Po-po-po-po-po-po po-lolo: — as the French write it — and is always followed by a pause and then an “Olé.”
A smiling Alcaraz let the crowd do the “Olé” part, then slapped hands with Wilander before they walked off the clay court to loud applause.
Alcaraz later said he’d been thinking about doing that song after an interview last year here, but it never happened.
Alcaraz need not have been so shy, for he showed no stage fright and sang clearly.
His game on red clay is very much in-tune, too, with the four-time Grand Slam champion winning 29 of his past 31 matches on the surface.
One of the losses was against Novak Djokovic in the gold-medal match at last summer’s Paris Olympics and held at the same site as the French Open. “I just love it here and had some really great moments,” Alcaraz said. “I hope people when they left the court, they left with a smile.” Alcaraz faces unseeded Damir Dzumhur in the third round.
SPAIN’s Carlos Alcaraz returns the ball to Hungary’s Fabian Maroszan during their second round match of the French Tennis Open, at the Roland-Garros stadium, in Paris, on Wednesday.
Photo: Christophe Ena/AP
SEC’s spring meetings: The future of college sports is in the balance at Florida resort
By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer
NOTHING less than the future of college sports is being hashed this week out in conference rooms spread throughout a sprawling seaside resort in Florida.
These are the Southeastern Conference’s annual spring meetings — a gathering of school presidents, athletic directors and coaches. It might be argued that the 2025 affair carries more weight than it ever has.
Among the topics are the future of the College Football Playoff, the SEC’s own schedule, the transfer portal and the NCAA itself. All are influenced by the fate of a multibillion-dollar lawsuit settlement that hovers over almost every corner of college athletics.
As a reminder of what’s at stake, a handful of football coaches detailed the uncertainties they faced with the start of practice closing in, one of which is still not knowing how many players they’ll be able to suit up for the upcoming season.
“It’s challenging when you’re trying to figure out what you can do for football
camp on July 30th, when we really don’t have much of a resolution of what that’s going to look like,” Texas A&M coach Mike Elko said.
Some of the topics being discussed this week and the SEC’s role in sorting them out:
COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF
The SEC and Big Ten will decide whether to expand the CFP from 12 to 14 or 16 teams, and will ultimately have the final say on how many automatic bids they and other conferences will receive. Among the proposals is one in which those two conferences would receive four automatic bid, and another that allots one automatic bid to five conferences and 11 at-large slots.
“The best system with 16 should be the 16 best,” said Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin, a critic of the system last year when his team was left out of the first 12-team field. “I don’t know exactly how that’s figured out” The Big 12 and Atlantic
Coast conferences, which are the other two members of the Power Four, will be able to offer their input — but that’s all it is — along with the rest of the smaller conferences who are involved in the CFP structure.
Asked about the relationship with his fellow commissioners, the SEC’s Greg Sankey relayed a recent conversation he had with one of his predecessors, Roy Kramer, who had his share of contentious arguments with leaders of other conferences.
“He said, ‘We’d walk out of some of those rooms, and we weren’t going to talk to each other for a year. We hated each other, but we always figured a way out,’” Sankey said. “I take great comfort in that. And I take the responsibility to figure that out.”
At stake is not only what the six seasons starting in 2026 will look like, but — if the SEC and Big Ten create an unrepairable rift with the other Power Four leagues — what college football might become once ESPN’s $7.8 billion contract to televise the games ends after the 2031 season. The SEC’s decision on
whether to add a ninth league game and a possible shift from a conference title game to a series of “playin” games for newly created automatic qualifying spots are also related to the CFP’s next format.
THE TRANSFER PORTAL
If only there weren’t that little problem of the “student” in “student-athlete,” some of the decisions about the transfer portal would be so much simpler.
Because schools try to sync the timing of the window when players can leave one school for another with the academic calendar, football finds itself having to choose between a window that opens during the playoff — around the time the spring semester kicks off — or one that opens in the spring and predates the fall semester.
The playoff option might be more convenient for some coaches, who could build their roster and do offseason workouts with those players from January through the spring. But
that could lead to a repeat of some of the awkward moves from last season, with players on teams contending for a title leaving for better offers.
“It’s really hard to be playing in a championship setting and have to be dealing with that,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart said.
“When I brought that up as a complaint or a problem, it was told to me, ‘There’s no crying from a yacht.’”
Ultimately, members of the American Football Coaches Association agreed that January is the way to go. The NCAA will ultimately make this decision, likely with heavy input from the new entity being formed by the Power Four conferences that will run key aspects of college sports.
THE NCAA’S FUTURE
Most people at these meetings agree that the SEC isn’t looking to break away from the NCAA completely.
Then again, Sankey said, “I’ve shared with the decision-making working group
(at the NCAA) that I have people in my room asking, ‘Why are we still in the NCAA?’”
This has lent urgency to the proposals being considered for even more autonomy for the Power Four, who are looking to streamline decision-making and put the most important topics — finances, litigation and infractions not related to the settlement — in their hands.
The current proposal for a slimmed-down board of directors would give the four biggest conferences enough voting power to total 65% of the vote even if the other nine board members all disagreed. It does not give the Power Four enough voting power to pass a measure if one of the four dissents.
That might not be enough.
“I think 68% is a number that’s been on our mind, because you can’t just have someone walk away at that level among four and everything stops,” Sankey said of a formula that would give three of four conferences the voting power to pass legislation. “We need to talk through those things in depth.”
SOUTHEASTERN Conference commissioner Greg Sankey speaks during SEC NCAA college football media days last summer in Dallas.
Photo: Jeffrey McWhorter/AP