"Big" News

Though just a sports matter amid all the major political news, I'm still amazed this didn't get major coverage -- not just as breaking news, but continuing coverage for its impact -- most-especially given how it quite literally upends college sports. In fact, it got so little coverage compared to the affect it will have that, though I pay attention to such things, I didn't discover it until days later.  But on Thursday, UCLA and USC left their Pac-12 Conference and joined the Big Ten!!  And no, this is not a joke.

Yes, it was covered extensively by the Los Angeles Times (and I'm sure on local TV), but there was nothing on my main news feed, nor on notifications that I get from the L.A. Times, Chicago Tribune and ESPN.  I only discovered it after the fact when I checked the L.A. Times today about something else entirely.

What this also means, albeit on a somewhat-lesser level for other people, is that I now have two teams in the Big Ten to root for.  Northwestern and UCLA.

Here's a story from the L.A. Times with links to other stories about it all, for those interested.