Laine Higgins is a Sports Reporter at The Wall Street Journal. She specializes in college sports, competitive sports, and the business of sports, covering topics such as football, hockey, and the Olympics. Laine's work has been featured in CODE, El Paso Inc., and LiveMint.
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Laine's coverage mainly focuses on college football, specifically events and evolving stories within the sport. She is likely to be interested in pitches related to breaking news or ongoing developments within college football, particularly those involving high-profile teams such as Alabama Crimson Tide and Michigan Wolverines.
Given Laine's focus on specific teams and current events in college football, she would likely be interested in sources with direct knowledge of the latest happenings within these teams or insights into broader trends shaping the sport. Additionally, given her national focus on the United States, relevant local perspectives may also capture her attention.
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By: Laine Higgins, Jared Diamond
The transfer portal hasn’t merely led to unprecedented player movement. It’s also created a de facto farm system for the biggest programs.
By: Laine Higgins
When a little-known benchwarmer named Joe Burrow emerged unexpectedly to become the best passer in the country five years ago, it laid a blueprint for late bloomers to find success after switching schools.
By: Laine Higgins
A matchup between Oregon and Oregon State represents diverging paths in a college sports landscape increasingly separated into haves and have nots.
By: Laine Higgins, Jared Diamond
The UNLV football team just cracked the national rankings for the first time. But any hopes of crashing the playoffs blew up when their starting QB quit because of unfulfilled NIL promises.
By: Laine Higgins, Jared Diamond
From Alabama’s 17-year-old sensation Ryan Williams to Ohio State’s one-man highlight reel Jeremiah Smith, college football is being conquered by the Odell Beckham generation.
By: Laine Higgins
Chip Kelly revolutionized college football as head coach of Oregon. Now he’s aiming to reorder the sport—and win a national title—by dropping down the coaching ladder.
By: Laine Higgins
In any other year, Oregon’s thrilling victory over Ohio State on Saturday night would have been a shoo-in for college football’s game of the year. But these days, those games happen all the time.
By: Laine Higgins
The Black Knights and Midshipmen are waging their most successful campaigns since World War II—thanks to a rules change and a strategic shift.
By: Laine Higgins
At this time of year, firing coaches is as much of a tradition as the halftime marching band. But three months into the season, not a single coach from a major conference has gotten canned.
Ever since college football introduced a four-team playoff a decade ago, analysts and armchair quarterbacks had salivated over the prospect of adding more teams to the mix.
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