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![If you don’t like players in college sports getting paid, you're really not gonna like this](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-1200/5be108c86ff64a8b72f9d2818863decb.jpg)
If you don’t like players in college sports getting paid, you're really not gonna like this
The fire hydrant has been busted open and money is spewing in the streets of college sports. Mens’ c...
![NCAA swears fealty to NIL collectives, pauses investigations](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-1200/6bab52b6d7843f98c14bea44ffd661ec.jpg)
NCAA swears fealty to NIL collectives, pauses investigations
The NCAA pretty much had its last real vestige of power stripped after the ruling in the Tennessee c...
![The NCAA is litigating itself out of the future of college athletics](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-1200/1e9416c24cf60dc05a354aa7d7d81dfc.jpg)
The NCAA is litigating itself out of the future of college athletics
The NCAA took another L in court this week, racking up appearances and losses in litigation like it ...
![NCAA President Charlie Baker said the quiet part out loud about transferring](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-1200/afcbf8b6001e388c3aa6b7aea32867dd.jpg)
NCAA President Charlie Baker said the quiet part out loud about transferring
There’s a difference between how things are supposed to work, and how they actually work. And very r...
![SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey is more powerful than the NCAA](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-1200/516b989c25803dc75c227cb0a70842e9.jpg)
SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey is more powerful than the NCAA
In any drug kingpin story worth watching, there’s inevitably the scene where a policeman gets threat...
![NCAA-ESPN's new broadcast deal is great for women's sports](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-1200/f07d6309fa7b83850868874d23d78e17.jpg)
NCAA-ESPN's new broadcast deal is great for women's sports
The NCAA and ESPN agreed to an eight-year, $115 million annual deal to broadcast 40 different champi...
![Caitlin Clark is cleaning up in NIL, but college athletes still aren’t getting close to what they deserve](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-1200/e16acc52a5fa378b99526bb7fea06c7d.jpg)
Caitlin Clark is cleaning up in NIL, but college athletes still aren’t getting close to what they deserve
Some money is better than no money until you realize how much more money you should be getting....
![The NCAA's latest NIL 'solution' is nothing but a shell game](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-1200/8a05afa7cf807482480c6299438dfb3d.jpg)
The NCAA's latest NIL 'solution' is nothing but a shell game
College sports’ has once again ripped off its student-athlete robe and revealed its naked capitalist...
![NCAA wants to try something new with NIL](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-1200/9492b6e7e401feacb3abcd28630d2ef4.jpg)
NCAA wants to try something new with NIL
The NCAA has proposed a new rule to its NIL format that would allow for Division I schools to direct...
![Texas A&M just showed us that schools have the money to pay student-athletes](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-1200/c8ec1875a31bfcffda9fb1ad10e74164.jpg)
Texas A&M just showed us that schools have the money to pay student-athletes
Jimbo Fisher isn’t the problem. The people who keep wasting millions on men like him are usually the...
![College football on Labor Day has always been a sick joke](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-1200/93fae7ade3a5f67424a0dc63a33e2fd2.jpg)
College football on Labor Day has always been a sick joke
Labor Day Weekend serving as the official kickoff for college football is still the biggest oxymoron...
![NIL and the reckoning of college athletics](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-1200/1dc7a72661ca96dc15eebf2e30217c1e.png)
NIL and the reckoning of college athletics
When you give someone an inch to placate their desire for a mile, don’t be surprised when they still...
!['Vacating' wins is the dumbest punishment of all time — do better, NCAA](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-1200/a9ee642073cbb9a03171b64eab6b4610.jpg)
'Vacating' wins is the dumbest punishment of all time — do better, NCAA
The kids might not realize it, but in 1997 the movie of the summer was Men In Black. In the ‘90s, Wi...
![Stop hating on the NCAA for being spineless](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-1200/c19e0cf3d3b67f92825f577e4650bfad.jpg)
Stop hating on the NCAA for being spineless
Criticizing the NCAA is the lowest of low-hanging fruit. You can essentially pick the apples up off ...
![Ron DeSantis’ new law is racist — Black college athletes, NCAA need to boycott Florida](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-1200/ec914b10c4b4890a40bba41869437971.jpg)
Ron DeSantis’ new law is racist — Black college athletes, NCAA need to boycott Florida
Never go anywhere you aren’t invited. This week, Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis did his be...
![Amateur sports at higher education American institutions are dead](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-1200/d3595d8fcb157eead306eeba2000a924.jpg)
Amateur sports at higher education American institutions are dead
On Wednesday, the performative set of elected officials who gather in Washington D.C. to raise money...
![Charles Barkley hates the playa and the game, but he should look in the mirror](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-1200/81cd652cda827a0e0db960d11facc438.jpg)
Charles Barkley hates the playa and the game, but he should look in the mirror
Every Cinderella story needs a bitter, jaded, elderly hater. Charles Barkley is college basketball’s...
![NCAA to Congress: Stop us before we NIL again](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-1200/fc6d92ba5a067bc6736d66ff4b483b83.jpg)
NCAA to Congress: Stop us before we NIL again
The NCAA needs a reality check. This week the vanishingly relevant college athletics institution has...
![A Massachusetts politician will be the next NCAA prez](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-1200/d2e36a1f8ca3a34475951b96032f08db.jpg)
A Massachusetts politician will be the next NCAA prez
What a weird hire. The dumpster-fire organization known as the NCAA had to make the right move in na...