Jan. 20, 2022
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In the latest move in a game of hot potato, the NCAA Board of Governers has passed the buck on transgender participation policy, voting in support of a sport-by-sport approach to transgender participation.
Dec. 11, 2021
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Mark Emmert said no Olympic sport any school is cash flow positive, adding that "the problem with commercialization is Olympic sports don't fit into it
Aug. 1, 2021
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In response to the changing landscape of college athletics, the NCAA Board of Governors will hold a special constitutional convention in November.
July 1, 2021
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NCAA Decision on Name, Image, Likeness Could Transform Swimming, Build NCAA Platform For Sport. The decision will change everything in sports
June 22, 2021
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The Supreme Court ruled by a 9-0 margin to affirm a decision allowing a pathway for NCAA student-athletes to be compensated by schools.
Jan. 27, 2021
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Has the COVID-19 pandemic emphasized the need for NCAA athletes in multiple sports to benefit from their name, image and likeness (NIL)?
Jan. 13, 2021
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While the NCAA announced in April that it intends to “modernize” rules regarding athletes being allowed to earn money off of their names, images, and likeness, the Division I Council announced today that it would delay a vote that was supposed to be held this week regarding the new rules. According to the press release, the Division I Council remains committed to adopting new rules, but that “several external factors, including recent correspondence with the U.S. Department of Justice, prompted members to delay voting on the proposals.” The NCAA Board of Governors had initially instr ...
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NCAA still conisdering new rules for Name, Image, Likeness #NIL ...
July 17, 2020
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The NCAA Sport Science Institute has released guidelines to help schools with navigating a return to fall sports this upcoming school year, according to a release from the NCAA and a report from ESPN. The guidelines include daily self-heath checks as well as testing athletes within 72 hours of competition in high contact risk sports. Fall sports have been in danger the last few weeks of not being played, and several conferences across all three divisions, including the Ivy League and NESCAC among others, have already indicated their schools will not be competing in fall sports, which ...
March 13, 2020
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The NCAA has joined most American sports leagues in cancelling events, wiping out winter championships as well as spring events in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Thursday’s announcement includes the cancellation of the Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships due to be held later in March. It also halts the Division II Championships currently underway in Geneva, Ohio. “Today, NCAA President Mark Emmert and the Board of Governors canceled the Division I men’s and women’s 2020 basketball tournaments, as well as remaining winter and spring NCAA championships,” read an NCAA s ...
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NCAA cancels all winter championships #coronavirus