Topline Retired NFL punter and surprise star podcaster Pat McAfee announced Thursday he will team up with Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning to deliver alternative college football broadcasts for...
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When It Comes To FBS Football, College Presidents Should Realize There Is More Than One Right Move
LOS ANGELES, CA – JULY 29, 2022 – – Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff makes his opening remarks … [+] at the start of the Pac-12 Media Day at The Novo at L.A. LIVE on July 2...
Dino Babers, Scott Frost Among College Football Coaches Who Need A Few More Wins This Season
SYRACUSE: Head Coach Dino Babers of the Syracuse Orange prior to a game against the Rutgers Scarlet … [+] Knights at Carrier Dome on September 11, 2021. (Photo by Bryan Bennett/Getty Images) Get...
Paid Off College and the Mortgage? Here’s How to Allocate Your Freed Up Cash.
Retirement savers who’ve paid off their mortgage or have made their last college payment should take a moment to celebrate. Then they should get busy putting their newfound windfall to work. Given th...
Biden’s Education Department Proposes $85 Billion In New Student Loan Cancelations
FILE – Education Secretary Miguel Cardona speaks at an event where Vice President Kamala Harris … [+] announced the cancelation of all federal student loans borrowed by students to attend ...
College Doesn’t Have To Be A Rip Off
At around $100 billion a year, Americans heavily subsidize public colleges and universities through state taxes. With state higher education dollars exceeding those spent on hospitals, health services...
Pac-12’s Gridiron Failures Evident During College Football Playoff Era
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – DECEMBER 03: The PAC-12 logo at midfield before the PAC-12 Football Championship … [+] football game between the Oregon Ducks and the Utah Utes at Allegiant Stadium on ...
Borrowers are on edge—will Biden cancel student debt or not? Here’s what’s going on.
The “he” is, of course, President Joe Biden. Some 43 million borrowers are hanging onto hope that Biden will take executive action to relieve at least some of their collective $1.7 trillion debt. Rumo...
As USC And UCLA Exit the PAC 12, College Football’s Self-Inflicted Decline Picks Up Speed
When Jerry Jones purchased the Dallas Cowboys in 1989, his investment bankers told him he was making a big mistake. Luxury boxes at Texas Stadium were empty in many instances, so were seats. Jones was...
USC And UCLA Bolting Pac-12 For Big Ten In Historic College Sports Shake-Up
Topline The University of Southern California and the University of California at Los Angeles will move their storied athletic programs from the Pac-12 to the Big Ten conference in 2024, in a shift th...
Crypto College? US University Launches Experiential Education Programs in Blockchain and Digital Assets
A large donation is giving cryptocurrency education a major boost at one of America’s leading universities. In an announcement, the University of Cincinnati says longtime supporters Dan Kautz and Wood...
2022 College Football Season Will Open With Payouts Approaching $2 Million
FILE – Alabama coach Nick Saban watches players warm up for the College Football Playoff … [+] championship NCAA football game against Georgia on Jan. 10, 2022, in Indianapolis. Saban is c...
College Sports’ ‘King Of NIL’ Is Racking Up Endorsement Deals At A Small HBCU
Norfolk State running back Rayquan Smith scored against Wake Forest in a game in September 2021. Chris Carlson/ASSOCIATED PRESS Less than three weeks after the NCAA began allowing athletes to profit f...
Turing College Receives Tezos Foundation Grant to Help Developers Enter the Web3 Ecosystem
Vilnius, Lithuania, 16th June, 2022, Chainwire Turing College (YC W21), an online school for web2 developers, announced it is collaborating with the Tezos Foundation to create courses focused ...
Biden open to canceling $10,000 in student loans per borrower — what that means for your budget, credit score and tax bill
If $10,000 vanishes from your student debt, you may want to celebrate. This is a question millions of student loan holders may be facing soon if President Joe Biden proceeds with a controversial plan ...
‘I’d love to be married now. I would love to be a dad by now. I’d love to have a home by now’: The winners and losers in Biden’s plan to cancel $10,000 in student-loan debt
The Biden administration is planning to cancel $10,000 in student-loan debt for borrowers earning below a specific income threshold. But for borrowers like Johnathan Perkins, 36, the amount of debt fo...
Need to tap your 529 college savings? How to handle a market downturn
Klaus Vedfelt | DigitalVision | Getty Images Months of stock market volatility may deliver a costly surprise to parents sending children to school this fall: smaller-than-expected 529 college savings ...
Nick Saban (With Help From Jimbo Fisher And Deion Sanders) Just Shoved College Football To The Edge Of Destruction
INDIANAPOLIS, IN – JANUARY 10: Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban walks on the field before … [+] the Alabama Crimson Tide versus the Georgia Bulldogs in the College Football Playo...
SoFi shares have taken too heavy a beating ahead of ‘significant earnings momentum,’ analyst says
SoFi Technologies Inc. shares have taken too much of a beating, according to a Piper Sandler analyst who upgraded the stock Monday. Piper Sandler’s Kevin Barker said in a Monday note to clients that t...
Walmart to pilot program aimed at putting new college grads on the path to a $210,000 salary
Walmart Inc. WMT, +0.11% said Monday that it is piloting the College2Career program this summer, which will focus on putting new college grads on a career path with the retail giant. College graduates...
Walmart Anticipates a Store Manager Shortage Despite $200,000-a-Year Pay
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Walmart Can’t Find Enough Store Managers, Even at $200,000 a Year
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Empty-Nesters Aren’t Saving for Retirement Like They Promised. That’s a Problem.
Currently, a person 50 or older can stash as much as $27,000 a year into a 401(k) and $7,000 into an IRA or Roth IRA. Photo illustration by Barron’s staff; (reference) Dreamstime (4) Text size ...
Opinion: Our student-loan system needs fixing — and this change would be smarter than just forgiving debt
Most of the recent discussion of student debt has focused on the prospect of forgiving that debt—telling borrowers that they don’t have to repay the funds the federal government provided to help them ...
That college degree is no longer the only path to the American Dream
Foto Sipsak | Getty Images For decades, a college education was the “golden ticket” to the American Dream, translating into higher lifetime earnings and better job security. To that point,...
I borrowed $50K for culinary school, but now owe $90K. How do I get out of debt?
How to get out of student loan debt Getty Images/iStockphoto Question: I went to culinary school where I received a bachelor’s degree in culinary management. At the time in 2007, I didn’t know it woul...
Collectives, NILs Combining To Kill College Football And Basketball As We Know It
INDIANAPOLIS, IN – JANUARY 10: Alabama Crimson Tide Head Coach Nick Saban shouts at a player during … [+] the College Football Playoff National Championship Game between the Alabama Crimso...
I’m 69 and ‘never got a job that paid well.’ How can I tackle student loan debt?
How to get out of student loan debt Getty Images/iStockphoto Question: I went back to college to get my degree after my children had grown up and my mother passed away. I left my job as a corporate ch...
‘I have great plans for myself’: My girlfriend doesn’t understand how her student loan works and rents a pricey apartment. What if we marry — and divorce?
My girlfriend and I have been in a relationship for seven months, and it is getting more serious. I don’t expect us to get married in the next year but I like to plan ahead and if things keep working ...