The NCAA earned reward final yr when it agreed to pay referees at its males’s and girls’s basketball tournaments equally. The gesture solely value about $100,000, a tiny fraction of the roughly $900 million networks pay yearly to broadcast March Insanity. Now, because the NCAA examines numerous disparities throughout males’s and girls’s sports activities, stress … Read more
EVAN BLAND Omaha World Herald The three-page doc landed in e-mail inboxes across the nation early final week. For the primary time in additional than 10 months, the NCAA was formally weighing in on probably the most complicated matter in school sports activities. The period of title, picture and likeness (NIL) has been extra grey … Read more
The College of Wisconsin males’s basketball workforce plans to make its first worldwide journey since 2017. The Badgers are scheduled to go to France on Aug. 7 to play 4 video games in Paris, Lyon and Good earlier than returning dwelling Aug 17. The NCAA permits groups to take journeys like this one each 4 … Read more
An agent for a prominent college athlete finally said out loud what schools likely hear in private: Pay the player more, or he will transfer to a school that will. Tea brazen demand made on behalf of University of Miami basketball star Isaiah Wong last week provided a rare, unvarnished glimpse into the way elite … Read more
Ochaun Mathis has a full notebook and a crowded notes app on his phone. Every college football team that contacted him has a place in them. The accomplished edge rusher from TCU knew he had to be organized when he entered the transfer portal in mid-January. When a school expressed interest in him, they went … Read more
Baylor Scheierman is returning to Nebraska, but he’ll be playing at Creighton. Scheierman committed to the Bluejays over NU, Arkansas, Duke and Clemson on Tuesday morning. Staying home mattered to the Aurora product, but so did winning. Enough that Scheierman is willing to drive the extra 50 miles to Omaha instead of Lincoln. “The biggest … Read more
Devin Drew wanted to play lots of snaps, and he wanted to do it close to home. One school on his list checked both boxes. The Texas Tech transfer defensive lineman committed to Nebraska on Tuesday, ending a three-month tour in the portal and securing a home for his final college football season. His decision … Read more
First downs and second guesses: Showcause? Big deal. Scott Frost is already under a Show Significant Progress order from Trev Alberts. Anytime there are NCAA sanctions it should be a serious matter. But what the NCAA handed down on Monday is more embarrassment for Frost and his program than anything else. More evidence of his … Read more
LINCOLN — Nebraska football coach Scott Frost received a one-year show-cause order and a five-day suspension from coaching the Huskers for his role in failing to monitor former special teams analyst Jonathan Rutledge, the NCAA announced Monday. Rutledge, who coached at NU during the 2020 COVID season, “provided technical or tactical instruction to student-athletes during … Read more
University of Wisconsin men’s basketball freshman guard Chucky Hepburn said his ankle is 95% healed. Hepburn was asked about his ankle injury during the men’s basketball end of the season reception Wednesday and said he’s doing everything he can to get it back to 100% before summer workouts start in June. He injured the ankle … Read more