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Tag: NIL
Sports
Critical Sport Scholars: Navigating an Uncomfortable Space
Being a college sports fan while also studying college sports is a difficult space to navigate.
June 23, 2021
Sports
Stakeholders Seek Legal, Legislative Remedy to NCAA Athlete Name, Image, Likeness Issue
As it stands, student-athletes — “amateur athletes” — participating in NCAA-affiliated sports cannot earn money from their name, image and likeness (NIL). They risk losing eligibility if they attempt to monetize their brands. This issue, although longstanding, is again coming to a head as the NCAA is and will be facing more opposition to its rule in both the court of law and legislation.
April 27, 2021
Sports
NCAA President Dr. Mark Emmert to Meet With Protesting Basketball Players
NCAA President Dr. Mark Emmert is planning to meet this week with basketball players who protested rules banning student-athletes from earning money from their names, images and likenesses (NIL), ESPN reported. Emmert is scheduled for a videoconference call with Michigan’s Isaiah Livers, Iowa’s Jordan Bohannon and Rutgers’ Geo Baker on Thursday. The three protestors used a social media campaign […]
March 31, 2021
Sports
Are Your Institution’s Diversity and Equity Efforts Cosmetic or Courageous?
The hardest and most needed changes will require courage. It will require some degree of risk. It will require upsetting the status quo. It will require fearless advocacy on behalf of students even if it means that it may cause some level of institutional discomfort. Unprecedented change requires unprecedented action at the time when windows of opportunity are made available.
March 30, 2021
Sports
Why College Basketball Players Should Boycott the NCAA Tournament
The players have more power and leverage than ever before as there can be no games without them and no tournament without games. They are in a unique position to force the hand of the NCAA to make a decision and fulfill the promise that was made back in 2019 to dictate how athletes would be able to benefit from their name, image, and likeness (NIL). The NCAA Board of Directors pledged to have this done by January 2021 and failed to do so.
March 17, 2021
Sports
Mississippi to Potentially Allow College Athletes to Gain from Name, Image or Likeness
Mississippi lawmakers are looking at a bill allowing college athletes to earn money from their name, image or likeness (NIL), Associated Press reported. All eight of Mississippi’s public universities and the schools’ governing board support the bill, said Senate universities and colleges committee Chairman Scott Bounds. As of July 1, Florida will allow student-athletes to earn money through contracts – same […]
January 28, 2021
Sports
Court Says NCAA Can’t Cap Education-Related Benefits for Football and Basketball Student-Athletes
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Monday upheld a ruling that said the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) can’t limit education-related benefits colleges provide to student-athletes who play Football Bowl Subdivision football and Division I basketball.
May 19, 2020
Sports
NCAA Name, Image, Likeness Debate Heats Up
s the college athletics regulator, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), deliberates over establishing guidelines on how much a student athlete should be allowed to profit off their name, image and likeness (NIL), more than a dozen states are planning to introduce their own laws that will govern the extent to which these players can benefit from their brand identities.
March 30, 2020
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