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The NCAA was founded in 1906 on the bedrock belief that college sports were played by amateur student-athletes. Nearly 120 years later, the NCAA and the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC have agreed to pay almost $2.8 billion to settle several antitrust claims....
After 14 years, Reggie Bush, the celebrated USC football icon, got his 2005 Heisman Trophy back. This momentous event comes after a lengthy period of sanctions and controversies. The Heisman Trust made the announcement on April 24, reinstating Bush and returning the...
One-hundred and thirty-nine victims of convicted Team USA doctor Larry Nassar can close another chapter in reaching a civil settlement of a 2022 lawsuit that alleged that FBI agents bungled the initial investigation. A 2021 inspector general report found that FBI...
Remember last year when we said that the NCAA TV ratings will climb, particularly for women’s sports? On Sunday, South Carolina's women's basketball team triumphed over Iowa in the NCAA championship game, drawing an impressive audience of 18.7 million across ABC and...
Illegal gambling in baseball goes back at least as far as the Black Sox scandal of 1919 when the eight players conspired to lose the World Series. Seventy years later, MLB excommunicated Pete Rose from baseball for betting on games while working as a manager. These...
Dartmouth University is an Ivy League school with a rich academic tradition but no sports powerhouse. Nevertheless, the school's basketball team made national news when it announced that its members voted 13-2 on March 5 in favor of unionizing. On March 14, the...
Records are not just numbers; they're testaments to human excellence. Iowa basketball’s Caitlin Clark is shattering expectations and laying the groundwork for a legendary career. LeBron James's legend is already assured with titles and statistics that surpass NBA...
Coach Jim Harbaugh apparently has had enough of college football, at least for the moment, when he took a job as head coach of the Los Angeles Chargers. Harbaugh ended his tenure as University of Michigan’s head Coach with a College Football National Championship. It...
The Kansas City Chiefs' comeback win of the Super Bowl took place in Las Vegas for the first time. Sin City is also now home to the Raiders football franchise. These are just two examples of a significant shift over a few short years ago by the NFL, which previously...
As the world eagerly anticipates the arrival of the 2024 Paris Olympics, July 26 - August 11, there is a growing sense that these Games will captivate the U.S. and global audience to a degree not seen in recent iterations. The 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the 2022 Beijing...