Current high school athletes who hope to continue their athletic careers once they arrive at college will not be eligible for concussion screenings under the terms of the proposed settlement.
New guidelines released by the NCAA and the College Athletic Trainers' Society on Monday recommend limiting live-contact football practices to two per week during the regular season, postseason, and bowl season.
A lawsuit over the usage of college athletes' images goes to trial beginning today, and the ramifications could reach far and wide if U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken rules in favor of the plaintiffs.
The NCAA "defers to member institutions on most matters potentially leaving student-athletes vulnerable to the very abuses the NCAA was created to protect against," the senators wrote.
The NCAA won't accept coursework completed by student athletes at two dozen virtual schools operated by K12, Inc., as of 2014-15, at any Division I or Division II college or university.
The public split right down the middle, 47-47, when asked whether they support or oppose "allowing college athletes to form a union, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll.
In a landmark decision, the NLRB ruled that Northwestern University football players with scholarships should be considered employees of the university instead of primarily student-athletes.
On Sunday's edition of NBC's Meet the Press, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called for college coaches' and athletic directors' pay to be tied to the academic performance of student-athletes.
A new class-action lawsuit against the NCAA argues that capping student-athlete compensation at the value of a scholarship constitutes an antitrust violation.
If the 2014 NCAA men's basketball tournament was based solely on academic performance, we'd be hearing no shortage of "Rock...Chalk...Jayhawk!" chants across the country over the coming weeks.
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