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If you don’t like players in college sports getting paid, you're really not gonna like thisThe fire hydrant has been busted open and money is spewing in the streets of college sports. Mens’ college basketball saw the success of the Inaugural 2023 NBA In-Season Tournament and has decided to start one of its own....

NCAA swears fealty to NIL collectives, pauses investigationsThe NCAA pretty much had its last real vestige of power stripped after the ruling in the Tennessee case last week, and on Friday, announced that it’s pausing all investigations into booster-backed collectives or other third parties making NIL deals. Despite the chaos and malfeasance that will contin...

The NCAA is litigating itself out of the future of college athleticsThe NCAA took another L in court this week, racking up appearances and losses in litigation like it was trying to nab the Republican nomination for president. A federal judge in Tennessee ruled that the NCAA can’t enforce key NIL rules that prohibit universities from using name, image and likeness m...

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NCAA President Charlie Baker said the quiet part out loud about transferring

There’s a difference between how things are supposed to work, and how they actually work. And very rarely do the ones in charge publicly address the things that are silently understood, but never spoken about. It’s why what Charlie Baker said this week was so out of the norm....

SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey is more powerful than the NCAA

In any drug kingpin story worth watching, there’s inevitably the scene where a policeman gets threatened or flat-out killed as a warning or retribution. Usually, it precedes and prompts the anti-hero’s downfall. SEC commissioner Greg Sankey more or less sent the NCAA a hand-written note with the nam...

NCAA-ESPN's new broadcast deal is great for women's sports

The NCAA and ESPN agreed to an eight-year, $115 million annual deal to broadcast 40 different championships including the women’s college basketball tournament....

Caitlin Clark is cleaning up in NIL, but college athletes still aren’t getting close to what they deserve

Some money is better than no money until you realize how much more money you should be getting....