About

THE INTERCOLLEGIATE IS A COLLEGE SPORTS MEDIA OUTLET COVERING THE ISSUES THAT TRULY MATTER.

We believe college sports deserves the kind of investigative and explanatory journalism and elevated analysis befitting any other multi-billion-dollar industry that touches every important part of our society and prevails over our public institutions of higher learning.

We produce content on two different platforms:

  • This website, where we publish our long-form journalism and maintain an archive college sports-related public records and other documents.
  • The Intercollegiate Podcast, a weekly show that critically examines college sports, featuring conversations with experts, academics, athletes, journalists, advocates and other interested parties.

We also actively collaborate with academics, students and other media outlets, in the hopes of bringing greater illumination and understanding to the factors that drive college sports, and how intercollegiate athletics intersects with American politics, public health, economics and higher ed.

The Intercollegiate was officially launched on Oct. 28, 2019.

WHO WE ARE

Daniel Libit

Co-editor

Daniel Libit is the founder of The Intercollegiate and host of its weekly podcast. In late 2016, Libit launched the independent blog NMFishbowl.com, through which he spent two years investigating the University of New Mexico’s athletic department as an experiment in college sports journalism. His work was the subject of a New York Times profile and cited in numerous national media outlets. Prior to his detour into college sports, Libit spent over a decade covering national politics as a staff reporter for Politico and The Daily, and a contributing writer for National Journal and CNBC.com. He and his family reside in suburban Chicago. Email Daniel at dlibit@theintercollegiate.com and follow him on Twitter.

Luke Cyphers

Co-editor

Luke Cyphers has covered the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the World Cup, the World Series, March Madness, and a state high-school championship game featuring Stephon Marbury and Lamar Odom. He was a founding member of the New York Daily News sports investigations team and spent a decade as a senior editor and senior writer at ESPN The Magazine, during which time the publication claimed two National Magazine Awards for general excellence. Luke’s story about human trafficking of teenage basketball players for Bleacher Report, co-written with Teri Thompson, was selected for The Best American Sports Writing 2017. A sequel to that story in Deadspin helped lead to the conviction of a prep-school owner for immigration fraud. Email Luke at lcyphers@theintercollegiate.com or follow him on Twitter.

OUR PARTNERS

The College Sport Research Institute is an academic center housed within the Department of Sport and Entertainment Management at the University of South Carolina. CSRI’s mission is to encourage and support interdisciplinary and inter-university collaborative college-sport research, serve as a research consortium for college-sport researchers from across the United States, and disseminate college-sport research results to academics, college-sport practitioners and the general public. You can learn more by visiting CSRI’s website.

Open Campus is a non-profit journalism organization dedicated to improving local reporting on higher education issues. It funds and oversees a local network of sophisticated higher-ed journalists, placed in newsrooms in cities across the country, and supports their work by enlisting a group of national subject-matter experts. Open Campus is a collaboration between Scott Smallwood and Sara Hebel, two longtime former editors at The Chronicle of Higher Education. You can learn more by visiting Open Campus’ website.