Washington court declines to review Pac-12 case
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Kyle Bonagura, ESPN Staff Writer
The Washington state supreme court will not review a lower court’s decision that granted control of the Pac-12 board of directors to Oregon State and Washington State, the court ruled Friday.
With the ruling, a previous stay of the lower court’s decision has been lifted, granting immediate control of the board to OSU and WSU.
In a joint statement, Oregon State president Jayathi Murthy and Washington State president Kirk Schulz lauded the court’s decision.
“We are pleased with the Washington Supreme Court’s decision today,” they said. “Our work of charting a path forward for the conference that is in the best interest of student-athletes and our wider university communities.”
For months, OSU and WSU have made it clear they intend to rebuild the Pac-12 in the coming years, however, that process could not begin in earnest until this case was settled.
The ruling allows OSU and WSU full discretion to operate the conference as they see fit, pertinently as it comes to revenue distributions. Last week, OSU and WSU voted to block a mid-year conference-wide revenue payment, which they said was to protect the conference against pending liabilities.
It is unclear what immediate steps OSU and WSU will make now that the departing universities have seemingly exhausted their legal remedies.
In a Whitman County courthouse last month, an attorney working on behalf of Washington, Dan Levin, raised the possibility that the departing ten schools could attempt to dissolve the conference.
“It’s simply the fact that the members could decide to dissolve that they wanted,” argued Dan Levin, for Washington. “Of course, in all this time during these proceedings and before, no member has called for such a vote.” Lawyers for OSU and WSU disagreed vehemently with Levin’s interpretation of the law and are confident such action is not legally possible. A statement from the departing ten schools was not immediately available.
Despite an excellent first half to the season, Texas Rangers starting pitcher Nathan Eovaldi wasn’t selected as an All-Star this year, but the team made sure that he’ll be paid like one.
Despite the snub, Eovaldi was given the $100,000 All-Star bonus in his contract by the Rangers after he posted a 1.58 ERA with 94 strikeouts over 91 innings. Teammate Jacob deGrom, who was selected as an All-Star, also received a $100,000 bonus.
Eovaldi, in his 15th major league season, would lead the majors in ERA, but after missing a month due to a triceps injury, he fell six innings short of the necessary 97 innings to qualify among leaders for individual statistical categories.
Eovaldi, a two-time All-Star, won his third straight game on Sunday to improve to 7-3, giving up five hits and a run with eight strikeouts in 7 2/3 innings against the Houston Astros.
The right-hander ranks second only to Detroit Tigers ace Tarik Skubal among MLB starting pitchers in WHIP (0.85) and strikeout-to-walk ratio (6.71). Opposing batters are hitting a paltry .194 with a .237 on-base percentage, .286 slugging percentage and .523 OPS against Eovaldi.
Eovaldi is scheduled to make his first start of the second half at home on Sunday against Skubal and the Tigers at Globe Life Field.
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