Billions at stake as US student athlete lawsuit wins group status
Federal case, one of several threats to nation’s $16 billion college sports enterprise, could bring huge shift in power to students Read more
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UCLA spent $150,000 traveling to red states on California’s blacklist
The University of California Los Angeles spent over $150,000 traveling to Republican-led states that were on the attorney general’s no-travel list. Read more
‘Deeply sorry’: Michigan State shows Hitler image before football game
A photo is circulating on the internet of the scoreboard at Spartan Stadium that appears to show Adolf Hitler on the screen. Read more
Revenge of the nerds is a fantasy, it’s the jocks who have more successful careers
Athletes have social skills that take them far in the world of business and finance, a study of US Ivy League alumni finds Read more
Conference realignment poses threats to big-time sports
As the Atlantic Coast Conference snags Stanford and Berkeley, dealing potential death blow to Pac-12, could selfishness of sports powers raise legal and tax issues? Read more
ACC adding Stanford, Cal, SMU feels like a new low in college sports
The most honest thing that will be said about the ACC’s nonsensical expansion gambit that was formalized Friday comes from deep in the heart of Texas: Pony Up. Read more
Minus federal oversight, states are passing their own laws on NIL deals for student-athletes
Since the passing of California’s Fair Pay to Play Act in 2019 that allowed college athletes to receive monetary compensation on behalf of their names, images and likenesses (NIL), states were quick to begin considering similar legislation of their own. Read more
From not keeping up to head of the pack
Lu Guowei is shy and has problems speaking comfortably with strangers, so this story is built on interviews conducted with those closest to him. Read more
Xi welcomes guests attending Chengdu Universiade
President Xi Jinping on Friday addressed a welcoming banquet ahead of the opening ceremony of the 31st summer edition of the FISU World University Games in Chengdu, capital city of Southwest China's Sichuan province. Here are the higlights. Read more
Israeli athletes aiming high at Universiade
There was a palpable sense of excitement inside the Olympic Fencing Center in the northern Israeli city of Akko, where athletes were preparing for the Chengdu World University Games in China. Read more
