GAINESVILLE, Fla. ā Florida Gators football coach Billy Napier and his brethren have been bracing for a roster reckoning spurred by the House v. NCAA antitrust settlement. The landmark legislation went into effect Tuesday, but sweeping changes remained on the horizon, not yet at the doorstep…
LEXINGTON, Ky. ā A former University of Kentucky student has filed a civil lawsuit against former UK football player and 2025 Buffalo Bills first-round NFL draft pick Maxwell Hairston alleging he sexually assaulted her in a UK dorm room in 2021. The student alleges āthe emotional and psychol…
ORLANDO, Fla. ā A new era of college athletics has begun with the approval of the House settlement on June 6. Starting on July 1, institutions such as Florida, Florida State and UCF began the process of offering revenue sharing to their athletes. Here are some of the top questions about that…
DALLAS ā In this era of college athletics, there is no offseason. Something is always changing, from realignment to the transfer portal to NIL. But for athletic directors and departments across the nation, the start of the 2025 summer may have been their least relaxing yet. Last month, Judge…
SEATTLE ā Let's say you've been working a job you love for as long as you remember while making $150K a year doing it. It's the life you've known, the reality you've embraced ā the future you were depending on. Then, the company all but collapses, hoses you in the process, and leaves you ear…
SEATTLE ā First impressions can be tricky to accurately assess because most everyone is often on their best behavior and anxious to please. Such was the case early Monday morning when the Washington menās basketball team gathered for its first summer workout at Alaska Airlines Arena. Near th…
Four CVCC teams have now qualified for the B.A.S.S. College National Championship.
DETROIT ā University of Michigan officials let Matt Weiss, the former University of Michigan co-offensive coordinator, coach in the 2022 Fiesta Bowl despite knowing he hacked into the personal accounts of female college athletes, according to a new federal lawsuit filed Friday. The allegation was contained in a lawsuit by 11 female students at UM and other schools that added former football ...
LOS ANGELES ā Three years after USC and UCLA triggered a mass exodus by bolting for the Big Ten, the Pac-12 has extended an invitation to Texas State to give the conference eight football-playing members. Texas State, currently part of the Sun Belt Conference, is expected to accept the offer Monday, according to several media outlets. The school would join the Pac-12 in July 2026. USC and UCLA ...
ORLANDO, Fla. ā Let me preface what Iām about to say by reiterating a stance Iāve had for many years about Billy Donovan. I believe he is the greatest college coach ā football or basketball ā in our stateās history. Many college coaches in Florida have won national titles in football, but Billy D. ā until the University of Floridaās Todd Golden won this yearās NCAA Tournament ā had been the ...
Appalachian State defeated Northern Iowa to win the FCS championship
The ability of college athletes to cash in on their collegiate fame has led to fewer players jumping early to the NBA draft.
The NBA season as it stands right now is heading rapidly towards the playoffs, and all eyes are going to be on the teams in them to see who comes out on top. But for many others, their eyes are already on a different goal: the NBA Draft. Because the college basketball season was able to go i…
The general manager position has steadily risen to become a key to success for college athletic departments.Ā
SEATTLE ā āAs far as having a chip on my shoulder,ā Danny Sprinkle said, āitās kind of always who Iāve been. If I have to make stuff up in my own mind to put that chip there, thatās what I do.ā In this case, UWās menās basketball coach doesnāt need to make up any extra motivation. Not when Sprinkleās team finished last in the Big Ten in his first season in Seattle, producing a 4-16 record in ...
MIAMI ā The University of Wisconsin and its name, image and likeness collective are reportedly suing the University of Miami allegedly interfering with a binding revenue-sharing contract between Wisconsin and cornerback Xavier Lucas, who transferred to UM in January despite Wisconsin blocking his release into the transfer portal. The lawsuit, reported Friday by Yahoo Sports, alleges UM ...
UNIVERSITY PARK, Texas ā Though it was closer to the end of an academic year than the start, Fridayās SMU womenās basketball practice at the Crum Basketball Center felt like the first day of school. Players and coaches were still learning each othersā names. Some were still noticeably missing, either finishing up degrees at their former schools or playing overseas for their respective national ...
It's hard to miss a lot of the unselfish play and style the Huskies greats learned in their time under Geno Auriemma and Chris Dailey.
DENVER ā For Kacie Breeding, this was never about dollars. It was about sense. āThis isnāt about football and basketball,ā said Breeding, a Boulder resident, engineer and former Vanderbilt runner whoās one of eight plaintiffs who filed an appeal against the NCAAās historic antitrust settlement. āI hope you get your bag. āBut we all were athletes at this school ā¦ there were not rules in place ...
SAN DIEGO ā The first thing you need to understand about the House settlement, despite bold proclamations that it will spawn an exciting, new era of college athletics, is that it amounts to a big, fat L for the NCAA. It consolidated three antitrust lawsuits and opted to avoid trial and the prospect of potentially catastrophic financial losses, essentially accepting a 20-point beatdown instead ...
Caitlin Clark made a young fanās dream come true with a heartfelt surprise. The fan, a little girl, was overwhelmed with emotion when her parents revealed they had secured tickets to watch Clark play in Las Vegas on June 22.
ORLANDO, Fla. ā Everywhere you look across the landscape of college sports, athletic directors are holed up in boardrooms and budget meetings, furrowing their brows over spreadsheets and taking a chainsaw to line items like movie villains in a slasher flick ā desperately trying to figure out how theyāre going to come up with an additional $20.5 million a year to pay their athletes. Programs ...
MINNEAPOLIS ā College sports officially ceased to exist on the evening of Friday, June 6, 2025. At least in the form that existed for more than a century. Amateurism is dead. Schools are now free to pay athletes directly, meaning they will receive a salary just as in any other profession, though technically athletes will not be employees of universities. Not yet. Will you still love college ...
LAS VEGAS ā Imagine going through the first 45 years of your life longing for the presence of your father, only to discover you not only knew him, but he had been a key part of your life since high school. It sounds like a pitch for a Fatherās Day movie, right? Yet thatās exactly the bombshell that dropped into the lap of Raiders running backs coach Deland McCullough in 2017. He learned the ...
FORT WORTH, Texas ā For the major athletic departments that plan to continue to play in the highest level of college sports, the recent House v. NCAA settlement includes a few key provisions that are vital to the schools, but will be crushed in court. The case against the NCAA would be so easy to win that even a lawyer who graduated with an F-minus from the Clown College Technical School for ...
The Murray State Racers are about to be embraced as the College World Series' lovable underdogs by local fans looking to adopt a team for the week.
PHILADELPHIA ā Doug Pederson hasnāt coached an NFL game since January. He wasnāt at the owners meetings in March, or the draft in April. He wasnāt running OTAs in May or minicamp this week. Instead, the 57-year-old former Eagles coach has spent most of that time supporting his son, Josh, in the United Football League, a spring league that was borne out of a 2023 merger between the USFL and the ...
RALEIGH, N.C. ā It has been a week since the House settlement with the NCAA changed everything about college athletics forever, and yet nothing has really changed. As earthshaking as the agreement is, to dole out billions in back pay to former college athletes while opening the door to ārevenue sharingā ā a phrase concocted to give plausible denial that this isnāt just the semi-pro operation ā ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. ā In promoting his bill to fund professional sports stadiums, Missouri Republican state Sen. Kurtis Gregory warned about the potential hit to jobs and tax revenues if the state were to lose a team. But on the floor of the Senate last week, he acknowledged that pride was also a prime motivator in his efforts to make hundreds of millions of dollars available to the NFL's Kansas ...
House panels are weighing legislation that would create a national standard for payments to athletes and protect the NCAA against lawsuits.
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