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Byline: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY A federal judge on Monday granted preliminary approval to the slightly revised version of a multibillion-dollar settlement of three athlete compensation antitrust cases against the [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY Former NCAA President Mark Emmert received a nearly $4.3 million severance payment when he departed in 2023, the association's new federal tax records show. The [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY The proposed settlement of three antitrust cases concerning the compensation of college athletes that has been approved by the NCAA, the Power Five conferences and [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY The Big Ten Conference had nearly $880 million in total revenue and distributed about $60.5 million to each of its 12 longest-standing schools during its [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY If the seeds were to hold form, the Midwest Region final would match Purdue, which hasn't been to the Final Four since 1980, against Tennessee, [...]

Byline: Lindsay Schnell and Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY BATON ROUGE, La. - When Kim Mulkey left the women's basketball powerhouse at Baylor in April 2021 to take the job at [...]

Byline: Tom Schad and Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY Nearly three decades ago, Michigan State University offered Tom Izzo a five-year, $540,000 contract to be its next men's basketball coach. He [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - During an hourlong interview session Friday that spanned the time in which a federal judge in Tennessee issued a significant ruling against his [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY A regional director for the National Labor Relations Board on Monday ordered a union election for Dartmouth College men's basketball players, writing that 'because Dartmouth [...]

Byline: Lindsay Schnell, Steve Berkowitz, and John Heasly, USA TODAY When Ryan Grubb decided at 29 to give up a career in agriculture and pursue football coaching full time, he [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz USA TODAY and Kirk Bohls Austin American-Statesman | USA TODAY NETWORK The universities of Texas and Oklahoma, two of the most powerful brands in college sports, will [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY A federal district judge granted class-action status to the portion of an antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA and the top conferences that challenges the association's [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY A bipartisan trio of U.S. senators on Thursday unveiled a discussion draft of a college sports bill that aims to provide a national solution to [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY A bill in the California legislature that would create the opportunity for college athletes in the state to receive revenue-sharing payments from their schools will [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz and Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY The NCAA on Tuesday set up a confrontation with state lawmakers across the country concerning its rules governing athletes' ability to make [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, Steve Berkowitz, and Scooby Axson, USA TODAY Longtime West Virginia men's basketball coach Bob Huggins resigned Saturday night, one day after he was charged with driving under [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - NCAA President Charlie Baker on Thursday continued the organization's push for federal legislation addressing the ability of college athletes to make money from [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY The U.S. House of Representatives this week will see a 'discussion draft' of a college sports bill that would cover athletes' name, image and likeness [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, Jordan Mendoza and Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY West Virginia men's basketball coach Bob Huggins is being disciplined by the school two days after the Hall of Fame [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY Attorneys for the NCAA and the nation's top college conferences wrote in legal filings last week that current and former college athletes are seeking more [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY Usually reticent to take positions on state legislation early in the lawmaking process, the NCAA is forcefully expressing its opposition to a bill in California [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY The NCAA Division I board of directors last week unanimously voted to require schools to provide a series of new benefits for college athletes that [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY Attorneys acting on behalf of two former college athletes on Tuesday filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA and the Power Five conferences that [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY How can you not like a regional bracket that - if the seedings hold form - will have Texas meeting Texas A&M in the second [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY Former Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker formally replaced Mark Emmert as the NCAA's president Wednesday, and during a roughly 30-minute interview with USA TODAY Sports earlier [...]

Byline: Dan Wolken and Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY As former Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker prepares to take over as NCAA president on March 1, he is already changing the paradigm [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY The NCAA operated at a nearly $59 million deficit for its 2022 fiscal year after generating revenue of $1.14 billion, the association's new audited financial [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY With all of the team trophies handed out and all of the final poll votes counted Tuesday, college football head coaches at Bowl Subdivision public [...]

Byline: Lance Pugmire and Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY Anyone else observing the binge investing into college football coaching and support staffs may label it excessive. To Georgia athletic director Josh [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY An NCAA committee that was charged with a wide-ranging examination of the future of major college sports released a series of recommendations on Tuesday that [...]

Byline: Jacob Unruh and Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY Three years ago, Madi Madory confidently approached a man many college football stars respectfully fear. Madory had just unceremoniously fired her bocce [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will not hear an appeal from Michigan State University that could have impacted how Title IX, the federal [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY A congressional committee report released Thursday shed new light not only on the tens of millions of additional dollars some top-level college sports programs have [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY Attorneys for the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the NCAA and the nation's top college conferences that challenges the association's remaining rules regarding athletes' ability [...]

Byline: Lance Pugmire and Steve Berkowitz USA TODAY Nick Saban's path to the mountaintop of riches that universities are heaping upon college football coaches was charted by his distant predecessor [...]

Byline: Brent Schrotenboer and Steve Berkowitz USA TODAY Michigan State athletics booster Mat Ishbia didn't really consider the financial risk last year when he decided to help fund a fully [...]

Byline: Tom Schad, Mike Freeman, and Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY For more than 30 years, NFL teams quietly avoided hiring Black assistants to coach certain position groups, mostly those in [...]

Byline: Paul Myerberg and Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY Donor groups dedicated to pooling resources earmarked for name, image and likeness payments for college athletes are being given an opportunity to [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY Just over 10 months ago, USA TODAY Sports made the following statement in the wake of contracts that Michigan State, Penn State, LSU and Southern [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Lindsay Schnell, and Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY A University of Kentucky athlete who is pregnant is to be educated on 'all available options,' so she can make [...]

Byline: Kenny Jacoby, Rachel Axon, Lindsay Schnell and Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY To salute the 50th anniversary of Title IX and its women's sports program, the University of South Florida [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY Five U.S. senators joined in reintroducing legislation Thursday that would dramatically alter the compensation and treatment of athletes in major-college sports programs. It also would [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY Michigan State University has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case that could impact how Title IX, the federal law that bans sexual [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY Top-rated high school quarterback Arch Manning's verbal commitment to the University of Texas last week added another emphatic data point to what has been an [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY Months after leading Utah to its first Pac-12 Conference football championship, coach Kyle Whittingham and university officials negotiated a new contract that not only is [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY In late January, money that had been intended for Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh began showing up in the bank accounts of other Michigan athletic [...]

Byline: Kenny Jacoby, Lindsay Schnell, Rachel Axon, Steve Berkowitz,, Dan Wolken and Nancy Armour, USA TODAY Fifty years after the passage of Title IX, the landmark law banning sex discrimination [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY In the summer and fall of 2020, the Atlantic Coast Conference joined the Southeastern Conference in having college sports' most aggressive approach to playing football [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY Mark Emmert will step down as president of the NCAA by mutual agreement with the association's board of governors, the association announced Tuesday. He will [...]