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Eighty-one scholarship players left Big Ten rosters during the two weeks the portal was open in April, and the conference took in nearly as many. Oregon and Penn State lost nine apiece. That is one conference in one window, and it is now the ordinary rhythm of the sport rather than a crisis in it. Michigan is worth looking at only because its offseason was the most compressed. Dusty May left for the Dallas Mavericks on June 22, weeks after winning a national championship, and

Thirty-six seasons of coaching leadership with Tim Neiman I am starting something new, and this is the first edition. I am calling it the “Leaders Need Leaders” series, because that is the premise. Every so often I am going to sit down with a leader I respect, record the conversation, and write up what I took from it. Some of them will come from athletics and some will come from entirely different industries, because the problems of leading people do not change much when you

The secret to Kelly Amonte Hiller's success locked in when she re-examined what it meant to win a championship.

A whole gallery tried to hold Wyndham Clark accountable for a man they had never met. It is the same mistake leaders make inside their own teams. This past Sunday, on Father's Day at Shinnecock Hills, Wyndham Clark won his second U.S. Open. He led from the opening round to the final putt and held on by a single stroke while a six-shot lead nearly slipped away. The golf was dramatic, but the more interesting story unfolded in the gallery. A year earlier, Clark had bottomed out