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NCAA’s House settlement era begins, with few schools opting out of payment model
The NCAA’s House settlement era opened last week, with athletic programs across the country free to start paying millions to their athletes in what has been called the biggest change in the history of college [...]
Pickleball is booming but is largely out of view at the U.S. Open
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 — [...]
Realignment shifts some of the top powers in women’s volleyball
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 [...]
After a disappointing debut season in Big 12, Cincinnati looks to improve
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 [...]
Returning starters, transfers have OSU talking a national title
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 [...]

Utah Olympic leaders start fundraising initiative

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Organizers of the Salt Lake City 2034 Winter Games earlier this week announced a fundraising effort that they say is the largest philanthropic campaign supporting a host city in Olympic [...]

DeWine calls for end of prop bets in Ohio

Gov. Mike DeWine is calling on the Ohio Casino Control Commission to remove prop bets from the list of legal bets that can be placed in Ohio after Major League Baseball placed two Cleveland Guardians [...]

Trump signs order to clarify college athletes’ employment status amid NIL chaos

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump last week signed an executive order mandating that federal authorities clarify whether college athletes can be considered employees of the schools they play for in an attempt to create clearer [...]

‘Valid business purpose’ for NIL collectives threatens deal

Less than two weeks after terms of a multibillion-dollar college sports settlement went into effect, friction erupted over the definition of a “valid business purpose” that collectives making name, image and likeness payments to players [...]

New college sports agency is rejecting some NIL deals

The new agency in charge of regulating name, image and likeness deals in college sports sent a letter to schools last week saying it had rejected deals between players and donor-backed collectives formed over the [...]

Funding of Olympic sports could be a bargaining chip as NCAA seeks antitrust help

College sports leaders seeking antitrust and other protections from Congress have a potential bargaining chip: school assurances that they will provide funding for their increasingly imperiled Olympic programs, the biggest pipeline of talent for Team [...]