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Latest college sports bill gets White House backing
A bipartisan Senate bill backed by the White House and major stakeholders provides the “clearest path yet for codifying NCAA rules into law and shielding the organization from antitrust challenge.” A presidential committee on college sports, chaired by Yankees President Randy Levine and Florida Gov....
Georgia Tech’s $90M facility shows new business calculus for college athletics
Georgia Tech Athletic Director Ryan Alpert steps through a pair of glass doors, dodges a scissor lift and looks toward the grand staircase at the front of the Thomas A. Fanning Student-Athlete Performance Center, where drills echo as crews finish the Yellow Jackets’ new football offices and athlete ...
NIL needs infrastructure, not just marketplaces
The most important thing NIL has produced is not a brand deal, but the raising of a question not seriously considered before in college sports: Who actually owns the value that an athlete creates?
Georgia Tech opens student-athlete performance center
Georgia Tech’s new Thomas A. Fanning Student-Athlete Performance Center officially opened Thursday, completing a project that spanned “no less than eight years” and cost $90M, according to Ken Sugiura of the ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION. The building replaces the Edge Center, which was opened in 198...
Arkansas to reinstate men’s and women’s tennis following groundswell of support, fundraising
The Univ. of Arkansas “will reinstate its men’s and women’s tennis programs” just 20 days after the Razorbacks cut both, following “a groundswell of support” to keep them, according to Matt Jones of the ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE. Since the April 24 announcement of the cuts, supporters have “raised r...
Power conferences eyeing tiered bowl system for teams not in proposed 24-team CFP
Bowl Season Exec Dir Nick Carparelli said that college football’s power conferences are considering a plan that would “pool their best teams left out of the proposed 24-team College Football Playoff and place them in a tiered bowl system,” according to Scott Dochterman of THE ATHLETIC. One idea disc...
Keepsake trunk brand Petite Keep launches Collegiate Collection
St. Louis-based keepsake trunk company Petite Keep has expanded its offerings with the Collegiate Collection, featuring officially licensed trunks with branding for Tennessee, Missouri, LSU, TCU, Alabama, Auburn, Ole Miss, Texas A&M and Florida.
Power Four weighs governance reset as NIL spending strains revenue-sharing cap
AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. -- Pounding rain gave way to sunshine as ACC administrators clasped their carry-ons and exited the Ritz-Carlton on Wednesday at the conclusion of the league’s spring meetings.
Sports and entertainment sector is losing the war for talent — and it doesn’t even know about the battle
This month, roughly 2 million students will cross a commencement stage, shake a hand, and step into the job market with a diploma and a plan. For the ones who dreamed of working in sports or entertainment media — and there are more of them than you might think — that plan may have been spoiled a lon...
Senate could create bipartisan college sports bill if votes needed for SCORE Act not met
The SCORE Act will have to garner the 60 votes needed in the Senate, but a “bipartisan, all-encompassing college sports bill originating” from the Senate itself might have a chance, according to Ross Dellenger of ON3.com. Senators Ted Cruz and Maria Cantwell and their staffs have been “engrossed in ...
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