As the House v. NCAA settlement reshapes the financial architecture of college sports, outgoing USF athletic director Michael Kelly said the university plans to be among its “most aggressive” adopters. The settlement, finalized on June 6, allows schools to directly pay athletes for the first time, with a national cap set at $20.5 million per […]

USF track and field had ventured over 3,000 miles to compete in the NCAA outdoor national championships in Eugene, Oregon. With the lights high on Saturday evening, four men in black and green stepped onto the track with program history within reach.  The Bulls’ men’s 4×400 relay team contended for a national title in the […]

Michael Kelly navigated a turbulent yet prosperous time in his eight-year tenure as USF’s athletic director, culminating in the genesis of one of the biggest developments in university history.  Kelly, 54, made a lateral move to intraconference for Navy on June 4, becoming the school’s third civilian athletic director.  Kelly oversaw significant advancements in USF’s […]

Vincent Ugwoke stepped off a plane into a snowstorm just after midnight in Concordia, Kansas, in 2022.  He’d just flown over 6,000 miles to the U.S. from Nsukka, Nigeria — alone and carrying nothing but a bag full of clothes made for the wrong weather. Three years later, the senior is one of the […]

The Los Angeles Rams officially signed former Bulls defensive tackle Decarius Hawthorne to a one-year deal on Tuesday. USF hasn’t had a player drafted since 2018 when defensive tackle Deadrin Senat and wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling were picked in the third and fifth rounds by the Falcons and Packers. Hawthorne joins RJ Perry — who […]

Tomas Simon’s rugby journey didn’t start with the traditional recruitment process — it began with a casual encounter at USF. The health sciences senior was approached by a rugby club member in the USF Recreation & Wellness Center, who told him he should try out for the team.  Never having played the sport before, Simon […]