USC director of track and field and cross country Quincy Watts was named the the NCAA men’s coach of the year by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association on Monday.

Watts led the USC men’s team to a share of the 2025 NCAA track and field team title and the women’s team to a runner-up finish at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships held in Eugene, Ore., from June 11-14.

The USC outdoor men’s track and field team title was its first since 1976, yet the Trojans have won 27 NCAA outdoor track and field titles, more than double the total of the next best program. Watts also had the USC men ranked No. 1 for the first time since the USTFCCCA rankings began in 2008.

The Trojans entered NCAA Championship rounds with four athletes in the top 10 in the 100 meters and two in the top 10 in the 200 and 400. In all, USC was represented in the top 10 nationally in eight events. His athletes posted 13 all-time USC top 10 times or marks during the season, including setting two school records.

Five Trojans reached the NCAA semifinals in the 100 and three in the 200. Nine different Trojans men earned first-team All-America honors. The Trojans’ depth led them to the team title as USC did not win outright any of the 21 scored events, just as they did during the indoor championship run.

The Pac-12 struck a media-rights deal with CBS that sets up the network to broadcast a minimum of four football and men’s basketball games per season on its main network and provide a cable and streaming presence for the reconfigured league from 2026-31.

Financial details of the new deal were not disclosed. Conference commissioner Teresa Gould called it a “transformational partnership” that allows the Pac-12 to grow when it starts as a remodeled league in 2026-27.

An inability to secure a media deal is what nearly cratered the league in 2023, with all but Oregon State and Washington State departing for the Big 12, Atlantic Coast and Big Ten Conferences.

The Pac-12 already had deals in place to put all of the two remaining teams’ football games on the CW, ESPN and CBS for the upcoming season.

The new deal with what the league calls its “primary long-term media partner” kicks in the next season, when Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, Utah State and San Diego State will join the Pac-12 in all sports, with Gonzaga joining in everything but football.

The Pac-12 needs to add another football program to reach the minimum eight teams necessary to be in the Football Bowl Subdivision and, thus, the College Football Playoff. Multiple reports say Texas State has emerged as the top candidate.

CBS will broadcast at least three regular-season football and men’s basketball games per season, along with the title games for both sports. The league also will have what it called a “consistent regular-season presence” on the cable CBS Sports Network.

Details are still being finalized as Pac-12 media negotiator, Octagon, works on finding additional media partners for the league.

NBA

The Boston Celtics are trading Jrue Holiday to the Portland Trail Blazers for Anfernee Simons and two second-round draft picks, ESPN.com reported.

Portland moved aggressively to re-acquire Holiday, whom the franchise originally received from the Milwaukee Bucks in the Damian Lillard trade in 2023 and later moved to Boston in a deal that netted the Blazers two first-round picks.

Simons joins Boston on an expiring contract while Holiday is owed around $72 million in 2026-27 and 2027-28. The deal saves Boston $40 million in luxury tax payments next season, according to ESPN.

The Denver Nuggets revamped their front office by promoting interim general manager Ben Tenzer to executive vice president of basketball operations and bringing in Minnesota’s Jonathan Wallace to serve as the executive VP of basketball operations.

The announcement was made by the team days before an NBA draft, where the Nuggets don’t have a first-round pick. Tenzer and Wallace will try to find ways to build depth around a nucleus that includes three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray, Michael Porter Jr., Aaron Gordon and Christian Braun.

Tenzer was named interim GM in April when Josh Kroenke, the vice chairman Kroenke Sports and Entertainment, made a stunning move by firing the team’s all-time winningest coach, Michael Malone, and general manager Calvin Booth with three games left in the regular season. Malone led the Nuggets to their lone NBA title in 2023.

David Adelman stepped in as interim coach and landed the full-time gig last month after steering the team in the right direction. The Nuggets beat the Clippers in seven games and then took newly crowned NBA champion Oklahoma City to a Game 7 in the second round before bowing out of the playoffs.

“Ben did a terrific job leading the organization as the interim general manager during a challenging stretch, and it was clear during that time that he had earned the respect of our players, coaches, staff and his peers,” Josh Kroenke said in a statement. “In spending time with Jon, his leadership, quiet confidence and relationship-oriented mindset stood out and we are excited to bring such a fast-rising executive back home to Denver.”

Tenzer is entering his 17th season with the organization, the last four as the VP of basketball operations. He worked with Booth on all aspects of the game.

Wallace rejoins the Nuggets after three seasons as the director of player personnel for the Timberwolves.

Before his time in Minnesota, Wallace was a scouting coordinator for the Nuggets.

OLYMPICS

The first female and first African president of the IOC, Kirsty Coventry, was inaugurated in the role in Lausanne, Switzerland with praise that the Olympic movement was “in the best of hands.”

Coventry, a two-time Olympic gold medalist in swimming for Zimbabwe, formally takes office today at just 41 after decisively winning a seven-candidate election in March to succeed Thomas Bach.

Coventry cited her family including her two young daughters as “my rocks, my inspiration” to lead the International Olympic Committee through the next eight years including the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles.

“You are my constant reminders of why we do what we do every single day,” Coventry said, addressing 6-year-old Ella seated near the front of the ceremony

“You are a constant reminder of why this movement is relevant, why it needs to change, why we need to embrace the new ways,” the new president said. “And you will be a constant reminder for many years to come on the decisions that we all take together.”