Jan. 16—BEMIDJI — Nestled into a banquet hall, sheltered from another winter storm rolling through Bemidji, a group of hockey players shared a unique pregame meal. The Bemidji State women’s hockey team and the Bemidji High School girls hockey team are gearing up for the second Sanford Center Showcase this weekend. Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement In […]
Read MoreNov. 14—Representatives from more than 700 school districts across Ohio will start voting Monday on whether high school athletes can profit off the use of their name, image and likeness. The vote through the Ohio High School Athletic Association will run Monday through Friday and could lead Ohio to join most other states in allowing […]
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The college football season is once again upon us, accompanied by the welcoming background noise of marching bands playing “Seven Nation Army,” stadium singalongs to Tom Petty classics and nonstop arguments about the Big Ten versus the SEC. Before the opening horn sample of “Jump Around” gets things jump-started, here are eight things to know […]
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MORGANTOWN — Save for a few framed jerseys leaning up against a wall — one of them a Jerry West from his WVU college days — Ross Hodge goes to work every day sitting in a rather bare office. The WVU men’s basketball coach swears he has a bunch of stuff in the back of […]
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Just about a week away from college football teams reporting to camps, President Donald Trump on Thursday issued an executive order governing how some payments are made to college athletes and to protect other sports that don’t generate lots of money. The order claims to seek to clarify how universities pay its players, but it’s […]
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MORGANTOWN — By now, you’ve either grown weary of hearing about the colossal game-changer in college athletics that is the House settlement or you’re simply ignoring it altogether. There is no blame here today placed on you no matter which camp you reside in. But, since we are now officially a few days into colleges […]
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GAINESVILLE — Florida Gators football coach Billy Napier and his brethren have been bracing for a roster reckoning spurred by the House v. NCAA antitrust settlement. The landmark legislation went into effect Tuesday, but sweeping changes remained on the horizon, not yet at the doorstep. With fall camp scheduled to start at month’s end, Napier’s […]
Read MoreBolstered by conference titles in five sports, USF finished first among all American Athletic Conference schools in the final standings for the Learfield Directors’ Cup — college athletics’ de facto all-sports trophy. Collectively, the Bulls amassed 294.75 points — second-highest total in school history — and finished 78th overall. New Mexico (49th) was the only […]
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JP Dragas got his college career off to one of the best starts imaginable. The Madison alum entered West Liberty as a freshman who immediately cracked the rotation. He played in all 35 of the Hilltoppers’ games, starting 22 of them and averaged 9.2 points with a season-high 29 against Salem, one of four times […]
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However, while McCoy and her team are not responsible for how WSU got into this situation, they are accountable for how WSU responds to it. That is to say that the optics of a 10-minute Zoom meeting, in which 18-24-year-olds learn that their or their teammates’ athletic pursuits will no longer be supported by WSU, […]
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It all started with a good idea. And then the lawyers got involved. The state of California ruled that NCAA student-athletes should be financially compensated for use of their name, image and likeness. The NCAA said they should not. And back and forth it went. And then others states — Texas, Louisiana, New York — […]
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Amateurism in college athletics was pronounced dead at 9:18 p.m. Friday. That’s when federal Judge Claudia Wilken gave her final approval to a settlement of the House vs. NCAA case, which will allow schools to pay athletes beginning next month. For those schools that opt in, they can pay athletes up to $20.5 million from […]
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