Pressured by State Laws NCAA Chief Forces Athletes to Cash Out

CORAL GABLES, Fla. — The University of Miami has long succeeded in making a brilliant leap forward for the students it hopes to feature on their sports team: an outstanding athletic tradition, respected academics, the sun-kissed South Florida. But for months now, the coaches at Miami and every other college in Florida have a new …

Robert Gates directed the Pentagon. Can It Help Save the NCAA?

Supreme Court unanimously ruled against the NCAA In an antitrust lawsuit this summer, it was a signal event for many college sports officials, but Gates was worried about the association’s future long before that decision. When he was president of Texas A&M, he saw the NCAA as competent to hold championship events and maintain national …

NCAA Won’t Punish Baylor for Sexual Assault Scandal

Baylor University, where the sexual assault took place a terrible norm Claiming that it had not violated NCAA rules within its football program in the 2010s, the association failed to make a statement on Wednesday. “Baylor acknowledged moral and ethical failures in its handling of sexual and interpersonal violence on campus, but argued that these …

Report: NCAA Prioritizes Men’s Basketball ‘Above All’

According to the report, the men’s tournament has faced no such scrutiny. Investigators said they had very different experiences when players came to Indiana and Texas for tournaments. The quality of food has also changed significantly, as have lounges for players and gift bags provided to attendees. (The NCAA spent $125.55 per player on gifts …

NCAA Rewrites Constitution and Drives Critics Away

NCAA, with its mandate blocked by the Supreme CourtIts conferences are pushing for influence, and its future is deeply uncertain, he said Friday, saying he will seek to rewrite its constitution. The NCAA Board’s decision to name what it describes as a “special constitutional convention” by November 15 could spark a sweeping overhaul in the …

NCAA Misses Goal of Endorsing Rules to Let Players Profit

Stumbling between negotiation and dysfunction, NCAAThe debate over how to allow student-athletes to monetize their fame stalled again Wednesday. Although the NCAA said in May He said the Division I Council, one of the most influential bodies in college sports, is expected to “act” this week to approve new rules on how students can benefit …

NCAA Chief Says Under Pressure, College Sports May Need

“From a big picture perspective, I think it’s encouraging that there is some urgency to move away from the status quo because it clearly won’t work with the Alston decision,” said Amy Perko, CEO of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. called for broad reforms. “But it wasn’t working even before Alston’s decision.” Strengthening college …