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ACC Commissioner Vows Lengthy Court Fight If Necessary Against Clemson, Florida State
Jim Phillips took a hardline stance at the conference's media days in Charlotte. Much of the spotlight this college football offseason has been on the SEC and Big Ten's respective expansions, but the ACC is changing as well. This year, California, SMU and Stanford will enter the fold. The three...
Florida State, Clemson Not Expected To Notify Conference Of Plans To Depart
When ACC commissioner Jim Phillips opens ACC Football Kickoff on Monday in Charlotte, North Carolina, he will not only be celebrating the league's new additions of the California Golden Bears, SMU Mustangs, and Stanford Cardinal but also with the relief that two of the conference's most prominent brands will are expected to stay within the conference.
ACC boss Jim Phillips: We will fight suits from Florida State, Clemson
The awkwardness of the legal battle between the Atlantic Coast Conference and member schools Clemson and Florida State continues to simmer with the 2024 season just more than one month away. ACC commissioner Jim Phillips pledged the day-to-day operations remain business as usual while also insisting the league will aggressively fight the lawsuits from the two schools over withdrawal penalties and the grant of media rights deal that runs through 2036. The ACC previously filed its own countersuit against the schools. "I can state that we will fight to protect the ACC and our members for as long as it...
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ACC commissioner Jim Phillips vows to protect league amid Clemson, Florida State lawsuits
The Atlantic Coast Conference's litigation with Clemson and Florida State has taken its toll on commissioner Jim Phillips. So much so, Phillips presented a more forceful tone during his commissioner's forum at the ACC Football Kickoff on Monday. He called the respective lawsuits "extremely damaging, disruptive and incredibly harmful" to the conference and stated each member school "willingly" signed the grant-of-rights agreements and "eagerly" agreed to the league's current TV contract.
Back in the ACC, DJ Uiagalelei holds the key to FSU's Playoff hopes
CHARLOTTE, NC — Mike Norvell and FSU arrived at ACC Media Days with perhaps the most important player on their team, quarterback DJ Uiagalelei, purposefully absent. Uiagalelei, the fifth-year transfer via Oregon State and Clemson, was offered a spot on the plane with Norvell from Tallahassee. Uiagalelei has the polish and shine to wow the media and say all the right things for a program leading off media days of a conference it doesn’t even care to be in anymore.
ACC commissioner vows to ‘fight for the league’ amid FSU, Clemson lawsuits
CHARLOTTE — In a typical summer, ACC Football Kickoff provides a platform for member schools to discuss their on-field aspirations for the upcoming season. It’s a showcase event for a conference that has sent a representative to the College Football Playoff in seven of the 10 years since the format’s inception.
Jim Phillips: ACC will continue to 'fight' against 'disruptive' lawsuits from Florida State, Clemson
Much has changed in the landscape of college athletics since Jim Phillips became the commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference four years ago. Among those shifts and developments have been the introduction of NIL, allowing college athletes to earn money from their name, image and likeness. It’s now legal to gamble on sports in 38 states, including North Carolina, where the ACC was formed 71 years ago and still hosts its headquarters today. And conference realignment — driven by television revenue from football — have made teams look for greener pastures. Since Texas and Oklahoma accepted invitations to join the Southeastern Conference in July 2021, dozens of schools have changed athletic conferences and the Pac-12 no longer exists. The ACC took in two Pac-12 refugees — Cal and Stanford, along with Southern Methodist University — to expand the league to 17 football-playing members in a conference footprint that now stretches from coast to coast.
Florida’s only historically Black university names interim president
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s only public historically Black university has chosen an interim leader, after the school’s president announced this month that he intends to resign. The board of Florida A&M University chose Timothy Beard to lead the school on an interim basis beginning in August. A former president of a state college, a longtime academic administrator and a graduate of FAMU, Beard will take the helm as the school faces public backlash for its apparent mishandling of a dubious multi-million dollar donation. Current President Larry Robinson announced earlier this month that he plans to resign.
'The gloves are off': Accusations fly, campaigns get ugly ahead of Tallahassee primary
After a fleeting summertime lull, the local campaigns went back to battle stations over the past few days, with fights flaring up on multiple fronts in hotly contested City Commission and School Board races. The attacks and counter-attacks drew many eyeballs and reactions on Facebook and X/Twitter and prompted a mix of condemnation...
Tallahassee police charge local man with sexually battering 3-year-old child
A Tallahassee man was charged early Sunday morning with having sexual contact with a 3-year-old child. Charles William Hickson, 53, is facing two charges: Sexual battery on a child under 12 by someone 18 or older, and kidnapping a child under 13 with intent to commit a sexual battery. As of Tuesday morning, he was being held at the Leon County Detention Facility without bail. ...
Commissioner Phillips: ‘We will fight to protect the ACC‘
As expected, the opening day of Monday’s ACC Football Kickoff event in Charlotte was dominated by the drama surrounding Florida State’s and Clemson’s threats to exit the league and the ensuing legal battles. Somewhat unexpected was ACC commissioner Jim Phillips’ strong language concerning the distractions that the...
Capital City Bank: Q2 Earnings Snapshot
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Capital City Bank Group (CCBG) on Tuesday reported second-quarter net income of $14.2 million. The bank, based in Tallahassee, Florida, said it had earnings of 83 cents per share. The bank holding company posted revenue of $68.4 million in the...
Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida
“But just as a drowned body will rise to the surface, whatever is repressed will always return.”. Mike and Denise Williams and Brian and Kathy Winchester were childhood friends, attended the same Baptist schools, married around the same time, had children, and attended services regularly in the conservative Southern city of Tallahassee. In other words, they seem to be following the path expected of those in the social milieu.
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