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Nick Saban was the head coach of the Alabama football program for more than a decade, winning six national championships.

The Crimson Tide had all sorts of advantages during his career, from recruiting budgets to facility upgrades to coaching staff salaries and more. There’s always been an imbalance of power in the college football world. 

Today, it’s more evident than ever.

Some teams are able to spend more than $30 million on their rosters, while others struggle to spend more than a few million.

The legendary college football coach thinks it’s time to change that.

Saban demands that college football do something to shift the imbalance of power. He thinks its unfair that some schools have a lot more money to spend than others.

The iconic college football head coach wants to see a big change.

“One team shouldn’t have a $40 million roster and another team have a $5 million roster, and they’re out there playing each other. There should be some kind of — every league, NFL, basketball, hockey — they all have a salary cap or something that creates parity in the league so everybody has an equal opportunity to win,” he said.

The big issue with this, of course, is that for it to happen, the NCAA would have to admit that student-athletes are employees – so they can agree to a collective bargaining agreement – which probably isn’t going to happen.

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Penn State –
LIONS FINALLY GET THEIR EDGE

Believe it or not, for just the fourth time since 1996, Penn State Nittany Lions turns the page at head coach. Enter Matt Campbell—a program builder with teeth. He replaces James Franklin, whose 12-year run ended midseason, dragged down by a glaring 4-21 mark versus Top-10 foes. Campbell arrives from Iowa State as the school’s all-time wins leader and a three-time Big 12 Coach of the Year, armed with a reputation for giant-killing—10 outright wins as a sizable underdog. Translation: Happy Valley just traded stability for upside—and a coach who doesn’t flinch.

STAT YOU WILL LIKE: Matt Campbell is 44-23 ATS as a dog in his CFB head coaching career, including 24 outright wins.

Days after the Browns brought promise back to the franchise by selecting OL Spencer Fano, WR KC Concepcion, WR Denzel Boston and S Emmanuel McNeil-Warren with their first four picks in the 2026 NFL draft, they quickly dissolved any good feeling those selections brought.

The start of the Browns’ draft went so well they were even receiving the grade of “winner” by some analysts, a word that has not consistently been associated with the franchise since the late 1980s, if not the 1960s.

The Browns might be turning back to Deshaun Watson as their starting quarterback.

Watson has gained the edge over Shedeur Sanders in the team’s quarterback competition after voluntary minicamp last week, with the “inside track” toward becoming the Browns’ starter once again. Per Cabot, head coach Todd Monken is looking to determine who the Browns’ starter will be by the end of their minicamp from June 9-11.

A Browns executive said, “Deshaun looks great by the way. He's done a great job, he looks healthy, he's in a great head space. We’ll see how it all shakes out, there is an ongoing competition.

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FIFA, You’ve Got a Problem

With the FIFA Men's World Cup six weeks away from kicking off in North America, soccer's global governing body potentially finds itself in a catch-22 of its own making.

FIFA, which is expected to bring in a record $11 billion in revenue from the tournament, has employed a type of dynamic pricing model for ticket sales it's calling "variable pricing," dramatically increasing prices for tickets in the 11 host venues based on demands from fans all over the world.

It led to the average ticket price across FIFA's three category groups to increase by an average of 34% between October and April, per The Athletic, with costs increasing for at least 90 of the competition's 104 total matches.

The average cost of the cheapest group stage ticket is nearly 50% higher than the previous World Cup record, adjusted for inflation.

The sticker shock appears to have driven fans away. There are reportedly tens of thousands of tickets still available for the USMNT's opener in Los Angeles, and at least seven group stage matches have wide availability on FIFA's official ticketing website.

In a document obtained by The Athletic dated April 10 reportedly sent to local organizers indicating that fewer than 41,000 tickets had been sold for the U.S. team's group stage opener against Paraguay at SoFi Stadium on June 12 despite a listed seating capacity of just under 70,000.

FIFA disputed the report, stating the document "does not accurately reflect actual sales to date." And yet, as of this publication, seats remain available — at a get-in price of $1,120.

This begs an essential question central to the World Cup's success here this summer: Will high prices lead to large swaths of empty seats at what is supposed to be one of the world's premier sporting events.

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