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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Plans for colleges to pay athletes directly for their name, image and likeness deals would run afoul of Title IX, the Department of Education said in guidance issued last week that adds more confusion to the shifting landscape in college sports. The nine-page memo from the department’s Office for Civil Rights [...]
When 2024 drew to an end, it was time to say goodbye, once and for all, to the amateur athlete in college sports. In theory, the concept held on stubbornly via the quaint and now all-but-dead notion that student-athletes played only for pride, a scholarship and some meal money. In practice, the amateurs have been [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Caesars Superdome may be the epicenter for the Super Bowl in New Orleans next month, but Verizon has a game plan to ensure the championship excitement stretches beyond the Big Easy. Verizon will transform stadiums and venues across 30 NFL markets — including Huntington Bank Field in Cleveland and TQL [...]
PHOENIX — Sponsorship deals were far from Jonny Bottorff’s mind when he transferred to Northern Arizona University on a football scholarship. As money-making opportunities for college athletes have boomed since then, the offensive lineman has earned a few hundred dollars through name, image and likeness deals, but nothing that has changed his life. Bottorff, 23, [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — A social media influencer from Texas was disqualified from Sunday’s New York City Marathon and banned from future competitions after he ran the race with a camera crew on e-bikes in tow. New York Road Runners, which organizes the race, said in a statement that Matthew Choi violated the group’s code [...]
Three weeks after being asked to modify a $2.78 billion deal that would dramatically change college sports, attorneys excised the word “booster” from the mammoth plan in hopes of satisfying a judge’s concerns about the landmark settlement designed to pay players some of the money they help produce. As expected, the changes filed in court [...]
NEW YORK — Even as the U.S. Open opened this week with more than a million fans expected for the sport's biggest showcase, the game's leaders are being forced to confront a devastating fact — the nation's fastest-growing racket sport (or sport of any kind) is not tennis but pickleball, which has seen participation boom [...]
Perhaps no sport will be impacted more by the most recent round of conference realignment than women's volleyball. Five of the last nine schools to win national championships switched conferences during the offseason. Those five schools (Texas, Stanford, UCLA, Washington and Southern California) have combined to claim 12 of the last 23 titles. All that [...]
CINCINNATI (AP) — One year in the Big 12 — and only one conference win to show for it. The Cincinnati Bearcats' first season after moving from the American Athletic Conference was a disappointment. Last year, the Bearcats finished 3-9 and 1-8 in Big 12 games. That included an 0-5 record at home and four [...]
COLUMBUS — The national championship window has been thrown wide open again for the Ohio State Buckeyes. NIL money helped keep the cupboard full of returning starters and lured other key contributors from the transfer portal. New Athletic Director Ross Bjork has said it cost around $20 million from donor collectives and brand affiliates to [...]