Florida name, image, likeness bill now a law; state athletes can profit from endorsements next summer
Dan Murphy, ESPN
A new Florida law will allow college athletes in the state to make money from endorsements starting next summer. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bill Friday afternoon, adding an expected increase in urgency to the nationwide movement toward creating more opportunities for athletes to benefit from the billions of dollars generated each year by the college sports industry.
Ohio State football players, parents asked to sign coronavirus risk waiver
Heather Dinich, ESPN
The "Buckeye Pledge," obtained and reported by the Columbus Dispatch, asks players to "help stop the spread of the COVID-19" and accept "I may be exposed to COVID-19 and other infections." By signing the two-page electronic pledge, players agree to testing and potential self-quarantining, monitoring for symptoms, reporting any potential exposure in a timely manner and to practice Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, such as wearing a mask and practicing social distancing.
Inside the Sophisticated Campaign to Save Men's Running at Brown
Alan Blinder and Talya Minsberg, The New York Times
The 12-day campaign was a speedy show of how people tied to Brown - an Ivy League university in Rhode Island's capital that is steeped in history, wealth and power - could marshal extraordinary resources to upend a decision that university leaders depicted as considered and final. Yet the effort, whose swiftness, precision and organization surpassed that of some campaigns for public office, hardly offers a template for other student-athletes whose teams are cut, an increasing possibility during the coronavirus pandemic.
As black athletes speak up, University of Texas faces 'neo-Confederate' origins
David Barron, Houston Chronicle
Professor Edmund T. Gordon has assembled a "Racial Geography Tour" of the UT campus, cataloguing points from buildings to statues to UT's storied anthem, "The Eyes of Texas," cited in an online call Friday by Texas athletes for reforms addressing what they described as "racism that has historically plagued our campus." Gordon, the university's vice provost for diversity and founder of its African and African Diaspora Studies program, is in accord with the athletes' calls for changes to how UT views itself.
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Dan Murphy, ESPN
A new Florida law will allow college athletes in the state to make money from endorsements starting next summer. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bill Friday afternoon, adding an expected increase in urgency to the nationwide movement toward creating more opportunities for athletes to benefit from the billions of dollars generated each year by the college sports industry.
Ohio State football players, parents asked to sign coronavirus risk waiver
Heather Dinich, ESPN
The "Buckeye Pledge," obtained and reported by the Columbus Dispatch, asks players to "help stop the spread of the COVID-19" and accept "I may be exposed to COVID-19 and other infections." By signing the two-page electronic pledge, players agree to testing and potential self-quarantining, monitoring for symptoms, reporting any potential exposure in a timely manner and to practice Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, such as wearing a mask and practicing social distancing.
Inside the Sophisticated Campaign to Save Men's Running at Brown
Alan Blinder and Talya Minsberg, The New York Times
The 12-day campaign was a speedy show of how people tied to Brown - an Ivy League university in Rhode Island's capital that is steeped in history, wealth and power - could marshal extraordinary resources to upend a decision that university leaders depicted as considered and final. Yet the effort, whose swiftness, precision and organization surpassed that of some campaigns for public office, hardly offers a template for other student-athletes whose teams are cut, an increasing possibility during the coronavirus pandemic.
As black athletes speak up, University of Texas faces 'neo-Confederate' origins
David Barron, Houston Chronicle
Professor Edmund T. Gordon has assembled a "Racial Geography Tour" of the UT campus, cataloguing points from buildings to statues to UT's storied anthem, "The Eyes of Texas," cited in an online call Friday by Texas athletes for reforms addressing what they described as "racism that has historically plagued our campus." Gordon, the university's vice provost for diversity and founder of its African and African Diaspora Studies program, is in accord with the athletes' calls for changes to how UT views itself.
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