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This billion-dollar sports behemoth should not be a nonprofit' Scott Hodge at The Washington Post. Despite its "nonprofit status, the National Collegiate Athletic Association is
The University of Colorado and the other 67 college Power 4 athletic conferences should divorce themselves from the outdated National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
The NCAA and its supporters are pushing for legislation that would give the organization immunity from labor and antitrust laws, which could result in the exploitation of college athletes and the suppression of their earnings.
The most painful blow came financially. According to ESPN’s Pete Thamel, Michigan will lose roughly $30 million, with at least $20 million of that tied to a two-year postseason fine. That’s a big number, but Thamel noted the Wolverines could easily offset it with about $25 million in College Football Playoff revenue changes coming in 2026.
Evelyn Parts became the third transgender athlete in the last month to file a lawsuit, challenging Swarthmore College's transgender athlete ban from women's track.
Jessop claims that athletics departments’ use of ABD tracking devices violates the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution in two ways. First, she argues that universities infringe on “a constitutionally protected area” of privacy—the athletes’ bodies—when a university requires student athletes to wear ABD tracking devices.
Swarthmore removed Evie Parts from the women's track and field team after the NCAA banned trans athletes in response to an order from President Donald Trump. She was later reinstated to team.
Trump's executive order encapsulates most of the fault lines and growing pains plaguing college sports’ transition from school-sanctioned “amateurism.”