Pac12

CORVALLIS, Ore. —  Adem Bona emerged from behind a curtain in a basement hallway, the UCLA center back to his buoyant self after nearly a month of anguish.He smiled. He laughed. He cracked jokes.It felt good to win again. Applause could be heard from inside the Bruins’ locker room Thursday night after they finally had something to celebrate for the first time since late November.“We were talking about it,” Bona said. “It had been a long time since we had laughed after a game.”Everybody wearing blue and gold was in a…

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As the calendar turned to December 2022, the Pac-12 Conference was in a precarious position. Six months after USC and UCLA announced they were joining the Big Ten and the Pac-12 began its media rights negotiations early in response, the 10 remaining schools did not have a new TV deal in place. Worse than that, the Big 12 jumped the Pac-12 in line with ESPN and Fox, agreeing in October 2022 to extend its current deal through 2030-31. But Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff was working on another way to save the…

FILE - The field at Sun Devil Stadium bears a Pac-12 logo during an NCAA college football game between Arizona State and Kent State in Tempe, Ariz., Aug. 29, 2019. The Atlantic Coast Conference has cleared the…

EUGENE, Ore. —  Lincoln Riley called last season’s team the “least talented” group that he’ll coach at USC. Yet this season’s group has the most losses for any Riley-coached team.USC’s 36-27 loss to No. 6 Oregon on Saturday at Autzen Stadium effectively eliminated the Trojans from Pac-12 championship contention. While not officially knocked out of the conference championship race, USC’s need for Oregon (9-1, 6-1 Pac-12) to drop its final two games along with help from other three-loss teams to force a complicated…

Last week at Pac-12 media day, league commissioner George Kliavkoff did something that looks even more ridiculous in retrospect. Speaking from the stage, he said he chose not to announce a new media rights deal for the conference at the event so that the focus could be on football.Naturally, he was then asked to clarify: was he saying the Pac-12 had an agreement in place after a year of waiting? “I think you’re reading too much into that,” Kliavkoff said.Clearly.Clearly, Kliavkoff had nothing of substance in his back…

The PAC-12 has been struggling as of late. Not only are they losing two of their biggest draws in USC and UCLA to the Big Ten, but they’ve also been struggling to get a new TV deal. However, according to a report out of Forbes, it looks like Amazon, Apple and ESPN are in the running for the rights to PAC-12 football games starting this Fall.Another report is citing that Amazon and Apple TV+ could split the streaming rights for games this fall, even if ESPN wins the rights. Basically, ESPN would air games on its family of…

LAS VEGAS —  UCLA did not come here to just give it a good try.Their best defender back home, their top big man watching in a sweatsuit, the Bruins did not back down Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena while severely undermanned in a heavyweight title fight.That much became clear during one stunning sequence late in the first half of the Pac-12 tournament championship.UCLA’s Jaime Jaquez Jr. passed to a cutting Amari Bailey, who threw down a vicious, one-handed dunk over Arizona’s Pelle Larsson. The whistle blew. Bruins…

LAS VEGAS —  Adem Bona sprawled on the court, using every inch of his massive wingspan to chase the loose ball. His immediate grimace and clutching of his left shoulder area led to wincing from an entire fan base.UCLA could not absorb another serious injury.Already down their best defender, the Bruins lost another starter midway through the second half when Bona stayed down for a lengthy stretch before getting up and walking slowly to the locker room Friday night at T-Mobile Arena.The absence of Bona alongside Jaylen…

The Pac-12 logo in Rice Eccles Stadium before the Utah-BYU game in Salt Lake City.(George Frey / Getty Images) Conversations with two well-placed sources in the media industry not authorized to speak publicly about negotiations chalked up some of the Pac-12’s struggles to strike gold as unfortunate timing. There are much bigger issues at play than the lack of buzz about Pac-12 football when you remove Lincoln Riley and the train of five-star quarterbacks he will bring to L.A. from the equation. For one,…