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| Supreme Court ruling scrambling NCAA's consideration of new name, image and likeness rules Steve Berkowitz, USA Today "Because of (Monday's) ruling, this is evolving as we go," a person familiar with the Council's deliberations told USA TODAY Sports. "There's a healthy dialogue that will continue not only tomorrow, but throughout the week. We're looking for what is the best bridge from now to, hopefully, federal legislation that doesn't trigger any antitrust issues." Does the NCAA have a future? Michael Smith, Sports Business Journal Jeffrey Kessler, one of the nation's most prominent athletes' rights attorneys, declared the NCAA "at the precipice." He said the organization is "going to have to change their policies" so that it is not violating antitrust laws. Some of the restrictions in the NCAA's NIL proposal would be antitrust violations, he said. Lawmaker expects California athletes to cash in on NIL by Sept. 1 J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times College athletes in California who are hoping to profit from the use of their name, image and likeness have a new date they can circle on their calendars:Sept. 1, 2021. Sen. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley), who authored the historic Fair Pay to Play Act, which carried with it an effective date of Jan. 1, 2023, has introduced a fresh bill to speed up the start of college sports' new era in California. Ex-Creighton Bluejays men's basketball assistant Preston Murphy gets show-cause penalty;program put on two years' probation Paula Lavigne and Myron Medcalf, ESPN Former Creighton assistant coach Preston Murphy was hit with a two-year show-cause penalty for accepting improper payments, a Level I-aggravated violation, uncovered during the FBI investigation that rocked college basketball, the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions announced Tuesday. During the bribery investigation that led to the arrests of four Division I assistant coaches, a federal indictment in March 2019 accused Murphy of accepting a $6,000 payment from an undercover FBI agent in a meeting with Christian Dawkins. W&M interim AD expresses reservations about Tribe continuing with 23 sports John O'Connor, Richmond Times-Dispatch W&M is expected soon to announce its new AD, and he or she will lead a department still trying to work its way past a turbulent period that fractured its student-athletes, alumni and fan base. The interim AD, Jeremy Martin, in a recent farewell letter to the W&M community prioritized uniting around one vision for Tribe athletics and suggested that, because of fiscal constraints, that process will involve difficult choices about how many sports to sponsor. |
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