A North Carolina judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the 1983 NC State men’s basketball team, shutting down the national championship winner’s request for name, image and likeness compensation. The team was known as the “Cardiac Pack” for a series of nail-biting victories, including a 54-52 win over Houston in the 1983 national championship game. Lorenzo Charles sealed the …
Read More »As college sports prepare for a seismic shift under a $2.8 billion NCAA settlement that will allow schools to directly compensate athletes, changes are also coming to the world of name, image and likeness, or NIL, deals. Among them: the introduction of stricter oversight, including an independent clearinghouse to vet larger deals for fairness and legitimacy. For businesses that have …
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President Donald Trump on Thursday issued an executive order titled “SAVING COLLEGE SPORTS,” a directive aimed at regulating the rapidly shifting landscape in college sports. Since 2021, college athletes have been able to profit off their name, image and likeness after a Supreme Court ruling on antitrust laws went in favor of the athletes. In the ensuing years, players have …
Read More »Donald Trump Signs Executive Order to Protect Olympic Sports, Restrict Some NIL Deals SwimSwam SAVING COLLEGE SPORTS The White House (.gov) Trump issues executive order for college sports ESPN President Trump’s executive order on college sports: Here’s what it actually means Yahoo Sports President Trump takes aim at college sports with a new executive order NPR Source link
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order prohibiting “third party, pay-for-play” payments to college athletes, a move the White House is taking to curb “bidding wars” that have roiled college sports in recent years. The order, a fact sheet that was shared in advance with NBC News by a White House official, notes that recent court …
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House plaintiff attorneys have reached a deal with the power conferences and NCAA officials that will alter the new enforcement arm, the College Sports Commission (CSC), relating to how NIL collectives can pay athletes, according to Yahoo! Sports. House plaintiff co-counsel Jeffrey Kessler told On3 that he has “nothing to announce yet.” Multiple NIL collectives told On3 in the last …
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Dennis Moore rides again. Via Amana Christovich of FrontOfficeSports.com, President Trump is “actively working” on an executive order regarding the NIL phenomenon in college sports. While it’s unclear what it would entail and whether it would even have any teeth, follow the money. As in the obsession by some to limit the money that players can make in exchange for …
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The attorneys who negotiated a $2.8 billion lawsuit settlement with the NCAA and four power conferences took issue Friday with the way college sports’ new enforcement body plans to vet name, image and likeness payments to athletes from school-affiliated collectives. In a letter to the power conferences and NCAA, obtained by The Athletic, attorneys Jeffrey Kessler and Steve Berman stated …
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