#college-athletics

#college-athletics

Stanford has settled a lawsuit with the family of Katie Meyer, a star soccer player who died by suicide in her dorm after receiving a discipline letter from the university. As part of the settlement announced today (Jan. 26), Stanford has agreed to provide more support for students going through the discipline process and to launch an initiative focused on student mental health at its Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute.

The Meyer family filed the wrongful death lawsuit in Santa Clara County in November 2022, stating that, at the time of her death, their daughter was facing distress over disciplinary proceedings related to an August 2021 incident in which she spilled coffee on a football player who had allegedly sexually assaulted one of her teammates. The resolution includes several initiatives honoring Meyer's legacy, according to the statement.

He had accepted his fate a few months earlier when standardized test results led to the decision that he would not be eligible to participate in collegiate sports his freshman year. But nothing prepared him for this. People were looking at me, Rice says. They knew I was a football player and they knew why I wasn't playing. I'm sure they were thinking,

Digital platforms, gamification and prop betting are driving this boom, he says. A former Ohio State football player, Borchers argues the influx in gambling threatens the integrity of college sports and risks athletes' mental and emotional health. Name, image and likeness payments, combined with media revenue-sharing, contribute to a new reality for college sports that is more transactional than ever, with huge sums of money flowing in and out.

The University of Utah approved a private equity deal Tuesday that promised hundreds of millions of dollars for the school's athletic department, which like nearly every athletic department in the country is running an annual deficit. The Utes need money. Otro Capital of New York, a firm that seeks investments in sports, sees an opportunity. The company is offering more than $400 million to the school, a source told ESPN, plus Otro's operational expertise, to generate new revenue streams for the department.

An effort to regulate college sports backed by the NCAA, the U.S. Olympic organization and the White House has faltered in Congress, with opponents raising concerns over the wide-reaching power it gives the NCAA and its most powerful programs. House Republican leaders had planned to push the bill, known as the SCORE Act, to a final vote this week. But those plans were abruptly scrapped after a procedural vote to advance the bill earlier this week nearly failed.

Gleason leaves behind a wife and three children, and a fundraising effort for the family's needs going forward is underway. Dozens of people -- including Siena players in uniform, school officials and members of the University at Albany athletic community -- lined a hospital hallway Wednesday afternoon to pay tribute to Gleason as he was being wheeled into surgery to donate some of his organs, Siena officials said. The school announced his death a couple hours later.

The current college football season enters its third weekend with something that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago: universities cutting actual paychecks to star players. Thanks to the $2.8 billion House v. NCAA settlement approved in June, schools can now share up to $20.5 million of their revenue directly with players across all college sports this year. That figure will climb by at least 4% annually over the decade-long agreement.

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The draft calls on the Secretary of Labor and the National Labor Relations Board to "determine and implement the appropriate measures with respect to clarifying the status of collegiate athletes." This emphasizes the government's interest in defining employment status for college athletes rather than making a definitive ban on employment rights.

Trump's early efforts to position himself as an advocate for women's sports quickly deteriorated, with his policies ultimately diverting funding away from female athletes.

"Word on the street is Kilen is unlikely to get out of the top 15 picks in the Draft. Teams above this, like the Athletics and White Sox, shouldn't be discounted. The Rays have always seemed to prefer position players, and specifically position players with versatility and well-balanced tools."

Reveno's new responsibilities include management of NIL and revenue strategy, roster optimization, and working closely with campus leaders across Stanford departments.

Foster, from Greenville, Mississippi, redshirted the 2024 season at Baylor and went through practice this spring. Baylor said he died unexpectedly overnight.

Shaquille O'Neal has accepted an unpaid role as general manager of Sacramento State's men's basketball, marking his involvement in college athletics.

"My initial thoughts were, 'Alright, they're building you a $50 million stadium, there's going to be some bumps and bruises along the way, so that's okay,'"