Indiana regulators are considering a request to ban all bets on the performances of individual college athletes.
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The NCAA believes the age-based model will make rules easier to administer and help make roster management more predictable for coaches.
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The NFL informed the 22-year-old quarterback, who was declared ineligible for college football after for making thousands of bets on sporting events, that it will not hold a supplemental draft this year.
Transfer quarterback Brendan Sorsby will not play for the Red Raiders this fall and will enter the NFL supplemental draft instead.
According to court filings, Brendan Sorsby made thousands of impermissible bets on college and pro sports while at Indiana University, the University of Cincinnati and Texas Tech.
Even though the NCAA has ruled Sorsby ineligible, a recent injunction in a Texas court prevents the enforcement of that ban while the case plays out.
The NCAA said it strongly disagreed with the court’s ruling and “is deeply concerned about the damaging, far-reaching and broadly destabilizing ramifications of this outcome — which undermines and corrupts the integrity of sports.”
The new age-based eligibility model, which could be approved by the NCAA Division I Council on Friday, would address circumstances that led to the aging of rosters across all sports.
College sports has been looking to Washington, D.C., for help as it grapples with rising costs of paying players and an out-of-control transfer portal that have threatened smaller sports, many involving women, that make up the backbone of the U.S. Olympic pipeline.
Women’s flag football is looking to join a list of sports that have gained NCAA championship status through the Emerging Sports for Women program.
The expansion of the tournaments will be bankrolled by around $300 million in extra funding courtesy of new sponsorship opportunities for beer, wine, spirits and hard seltzer.
The Indianapolis-based NCAA announced Thursday that it will expand its two March Madness tournaments by eight teams each next season, a long-expected move. It is the first expansion of the tournaments in 15 years, when they were bumped to 68 teams each.
IHSAA Commissioner Paul Neidig said the rule aims to clarify what high school student athletes are permitted to do.
Maria Marchesano not only wants to win, she has a knack for it.
The 6-foot-6 shooting guard made his announcement Saturday on his Instagram account with highlight clips of his biggest shots and the words “unfinished business.”
The earlier start date would allow flexibility for potential expansion to the College Football Playoff.
The possibility of an age-based model comes after numerous athletes have challenged NCAA eligibility rules in lawsuits with the hope of extending their college careers.
If you want to illustrate how college basketball has changed over the years, you could do worse than simply drawing a line between these two groups.
The case debated whether the NCAA had a duty to warn individual student athletes about the risks of football-related head trauma, which can lead to death.
Michigan, with an all-transfer starting lineup and a coach who has mastered the new way of acquiring talent — in questionable fashion in the opinion of some — won it all Monday night.
IBJ will be covering the news and festivities through this weekend’s Final Four. Check back often for updates.
Meanwhile, some local organizers spent time in Phoenix over the weekend to scope out the women’s tournament, which Indy will host in 2028.
