Pat Forde

Joined: Jan 1, 2019

Pat Forde is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated who covers college football and college basketball as well as the Olympics and horse racing. He cohosts the College Football Enquirer podcast and is a football analyst on the Big Ten Network. He previously worked for Yahoo Sports, ESPN and The (Louisville) Courier-Journal. Forde has won 28 Associated Press Sports Editors writing contest awards, has been published three times in the Best American Sports Writing book series, and was nominated for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize. A past president of the U.S. Basketball Writers Association and member of the Football Writers Association of America, he lives in Louisville with his wife. They have three children, all of whom were collegiate swimmers.

The men’s and women’s NCAA tournaments will expand to 76 teams beginning next season with more opening-round games.

No horse can match the impact of Into Mischief, a 21-year-old stallion with three Derby-winning offspring and three more competing Saturday.

Danon Bourbon, a Japanese horse, was bred in Kentucky by Blue Heaven Farm and is trained by Manabu Ikezoe.

Horse Racing

Strategic breeding starting with an American stallion and international investment have positioned Japan as a formidable force in horse racing.

College Basketball

Marves Fairley allegedly is a linchpin of the men’s college basketball and NBA game-fixing scandals.

Sovereignty, with jockey Junior Alvarado, won the 2025 Kentucky Derby then skipped the Preakness.

Horse Racing

By keeping Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty out of the Preakness last year, Bill Mott reignited horse racing’s long-simmering debate.

College Basketball

Two former Fordham players and one at Kennesaw State were cited for Level I violations tied to the broader game-fixing scheme under federal investigation.

Louisville athletic director Josh Heird and the Cardinals are navigating college sports’ new landscape.

College Football

Facing mounting deficits and an uncertain future, the Cardinals are pouring millions into football and basketball while pushing for sweeping changes to a broken economic model.