NCAA moves closer to allowing college athletes to bet on pro sports
Despite the potential change, the committee emphasized that it doesn’t endorse betting on sports, particularly for student-athletes.
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$10,000 tickets, bourbon deals: Colleges hunt revenue to pay athletes
Across the college sports ecosystem, universities are under pressure to find new ways to raise revenue, after a landmark federal settlement over student athletes’ name, image and likeness rights opened the door for them to be paid by schools.
College-reform bill could generate extra billions by allowing conferences to pool their TV rights
Democratic senators introduced a bill Monday that would rewrite a 1961 law prohibiting college sports conferences from banding together to sell their media rights.
At TEDSports, screenwriter Angelo Pizzo lauds the long shots
Thirty-two years after “Rudy,” Pizzo continues to praise the University of Notre Dame walk-on football player as an inspiration.
NCAA bans 3 college basketball players for betting on their own games
The Indianapolis-based NCAA said the three Division I players bet on one another’s games and/or provided information that enabled others to do so during the 2024-25 regular season. Two of them manipulated their performances to ensure certain bets were won.
IU announces initiative studying health, performance of female athletes
The Female Sports Performance and Research Initiative, in partnership with Pacers Sports & Entertainment and the Indiana Sports Corp, aims to generate data to support evidence-based guidelines using women-centered research.
$80M in NIL deals approved by newly launched College Sports Commission
The new College Sports Commission has cleared more than 8,300 name, image and likeness deals, it said Thursday in its first full update on how the new system is working.
Senator warns of ‘Power 2’ owning college sports if NCAA-backed SCORE Act becomes law
Sen. Maria Cantwell warned of a two-tier college sports system with haves and have-nots if a proposed bill to regulate the industry passes without changes.
10 House Democrats ask NCAA about plans to protect female athletes
The lawmakers asked how college sports’ major governing body plans to protect the interests of female athletes as the largest portion of NIL and revenue-sharing payments continue to be directed to male athletes.
16M and growing: What’s driving the NCAA’s effort to build its fan database?
Brian Higgins is the NCAA’s senior vice president of business performance and oversees the organization’s data collection and analysis work.
Indy-based NCAA fines Michigan football millions, coach suspended in sign-stealing scandal
The Indianapolis-based NCAA fined Michigan tens of millions of dollars Friday and suspended coach Sherrone Moore for three games for a sign-stealing scandal that has loomed over the program for nearly two years.
In NCAA streamlining, big conferences get more power, but not everything they wanted
The effort is the latest in an ongoing push to give the biggest, football-playing schools more autonomy in making decisions across the college landscape.
NCAA: No expansion of basketball tournaments beyond 68 teams this season
The NCAA said expansion to 72 or 76 teams could still be considered prior to the 2027 tournaments.
NCAA seeks safe bet amid surge in sports gambling
The organization’s once-icy relationship with the sports betting industry is beginning to thaw, but the Indianapolis-based nonprofit is still holding legalized gambling at arm’s length as it evaluates the impact on college sports.
Football season looms with no clear guidance over eligibility battles from NCAA
The Indianapolis-based NCAA would like Congress to grant limited liability protection to help address all the lawsuits over eligibility.
Coaches wait for key decision to learn whether they can keep NIL promises made to recruits
Uncertainty over a key element of the $2.8 billion NCAA antitrust settlement that is reshaping college sports has placed recruiters on a tightrope.
UIndy hosts girls basketball camp for top international high school players
More than 25 different countries and territories were represented at the camp—which is organized by the WNBA, NBA and International Basketball Federation. Last year, 30 participants gained college scholarships.
New college sports agency rejecting some athlete NIL deals with donor-backed collectives
The rejected deals hold no “valid business purpose,” the agency said, and don’t adhere to rules that call for outside NIL deals to be between players and companies that provide goods or services to the general public for profit.
March Madness expansion to 72 or 76 teams under consideration
NCAA President Charlie Baker said the organization has had “good conversations” about expansion with TV partners CBS and Warner Bros., whose deal runs through 2032 at the cost of around $1.1 billion a year.
NCAA considering proposal to allow college athletes, staff to bet on pro sports
The shift comes as the Indianapolis-based organization grapples with the growth of legalized gambling across the United States.