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A College Swimming Playoff? What About This Approach For the Future? With the College Football Playoff Committee releasing their final rankings of the season last month, four teams were identified as the best in the land and given the opportunity to contend for the national championship. It got the ...

ESPN, NCAA Agree to Eight-Year Rights Deal Worth $920 million ESPN and the NCAA on Thursday announced a new eight-year rights agreement to broadcast championship events, including swimming. The deal begins in September and runs through the end of the 2031-32 academic year. It covers events on broadc...

ESPN airing NCAA Water Polo Championship 3pm PST Stanford, Calif. – Same pool, same rivals, same trophy on the line – but with just enough change on both benches to make the 2025 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Championship feel wide open. On Sunday afternoon at Stanford’s Avery Aquatic Center, UCLA and USC ...

By Julia Cunningham, Swimming World College Intern Swimming is an expensive sport. If you want to be good, you have to own the latest suit technology, you have to constantly replace broken goggles, you have to travel to get to meets. There is no denying that all of those costs are worth it once you ...

NCAA Women’s Water Polo Final to be Broadcast on ESPNU USA Water Polo and the NCAA are partnering with ESPN to televise the 2025 NCAA women’s water polo final in May. The final, on May 11 at the IU Natatorium in Indianapolis, will be broadcast live on ESPNU and ESPN+. Internationally, it will be ava...

Olympic champion and record holder Michael Phelps has been named the No.1 athlete of the past 25 years by ESPN. The sports network released its decision in a video. Phelps became a household name when he won a record eight Olympic gold medals in 2008 in Beijing. In his career, his is a five-time Oly...

Not long after losing major sponsors Speedo USA and Ralph Lauren, Ryan Lochte has been dropped by skin-care firm Syneron-Candela and mattress firm Airweave. Syneron-Candela is the parent company of Gentle Hair Removal, who was one of Lochte's top four sponsors going into the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. ...

Two-time Paralympian Becca Meyers was crowned Best Female Athlete with a Disability at the 25th ESPY Awards yesterday. This is the second time that she has won the award in 2015. Meyers won the award for her performances at the 2016 Rio Paralympics, where she took home three gold medals (400 free S1...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada. May 27. HE'S BAAAAAAcK! Former USC NCAA champ Lenny Krayzelburg, who owns world records in the 50-100-200 meter backstrokes but hadn't swum competitively since winning a trio of gold medals at the Olympics in Sydney last September, made his 2001 debut her...

USA Swimming announced that ESPN will televise the FINA World Cup (December 1 and 2) in College Station, Texas. The 1 hour tape-delayed broadcast will be the 6th time this year that a swimming competition has been televised (previous 5: 1998 World Championships, 1998 NCAA Men's Championships, 1998 N...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Co., June 1. USA SWIMMING and the Lingner Group, who produces the NCAA broadcasts for ESPN, have teamed together to produce Splash TV, the first lifestyle magazine show on swimming to debut in the United States. The premier episode airs this Monday, June 4, at 8:30 and 11:30 p.m. E...

The 1998 NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships will air on Saturday, April 4 @ 11:30pm PST on ESPN. Check your local listings.

Seahawks' DK Metcalf Found Love for Swimming Thanks to Russell Wilson En route to the West Division title and a berth in the NFC playoffs, the Seattle Seahawks benefitted from the pool. An ESPN story on Friday highlighted the dynamic between quarterback Russell Wilson and wide receiver DK Metcalf, a...

NCAA Swimming Has a Chance to Emerge From Turbulent Waters in Stronger Position [caption id="attachment_604195" align="alignright" width="450"] Rose is All Smiles[/caption] BERKELEY, Calif. — The sky hung heavy with gray clouds over Spieker Aquatics Complex, a fitting backdrop for the Cal Men’s Swim...

For the third straight year ESPN The Magazine's "Body Issue" will feature a prolific swimmer within it's star-studded pages. Nathan Adrian, 2012 Olympic gold medalist and USA sprint superstar, joins fellow Olympians Michael Phelps (2014) and Natalie Coughlin (2015) who have added "The Body Issue" to...

The great Mark Spitz will be featured Friday, June 4 @ 7:30 pm PDT on ESPN as the 20th century's 33rd greatest athlete.

NEW YORK - CBS's Michele Tafoya and Indiana Pacers' Reggie Miller will handle the play-by-play and color commentary on Lifetime's coverage of the WNBA. Former Olympic swimmer Summer Sanders will serve as sideline reporter. Former University of Connecticut basketball player and assistant coach Meghan...

The 1999 NCAA Men's Swimming & Diving Championships will be televised on Saturday, April 3 at 9:30pm PST on ESPN.

From www.uswp.org United States Water Polo's United Airlines Coaches of the Year will participate in the United States Olympic Committee's third annual coaching recognition program September 17-20 in Houston. USWP/United Airlines Elite Coach of the Year Guy Baker, Long Beach, Calif., and USWP/United...

ESPN will televise the FINA World Cup (College Station, TX) on December 14 from 5-7 pm (PST). Check your local listings.