Mark Emmert

On Wednesday, NCAA president Mark Emmert inexplicably said that being the president of a posh university is the “hardest job in America.”

In a landmark decision on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) restrictions on student compensation violate federal antitrust laws. 

The NCAA has caved after making loud proclamations in April that it could pull events from states with limits on transgender athletes.

Starting next season, major college football and basketball players will be permitted to transfer one time before graduating without being required to sit out a year of competition.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — NCAA basketball administrators apologized to the women’s basketball players and coaches after inequities between the men’s and women’s tournament went viral on social media and vowed to do better.

A limited number of fans will be allowed to attend all rounds of next month’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament in Indiana.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The NCAA announced Monday that all 67 men’s basketball tournament games will be played entirely in Indiana.

At least half of college football seems determined to play this fall. However, the best team on this year’s college gridiron might only hoist a participation trophy at the end of the year.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has announced that it will allow players to place social justice slogans on jerseys, becoming the next sports body to bend to the will of Black Lives Matter activism.

NCAA president Mark Emmert noted on Thursday that he is discouraged over the return of college sports.

The NCAA on Friday expanded its policy banning states with prominent Confederate symbols from hosting its championship events, one day after the Southeastern Conference made a similar declaration aimed at the Mississippi state flag.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) on Friday heaped praise on student-athletes who have participated in the recent protests sweeping the nation and ultimately called on member schools to “assist students in registering to vote in the upcoming national election” and halt athletics activity on Election Day so athletes can head to the polls.

The NCAA is moving forward with a plan to allow college athletes to earn money for endorsements and a host of other activities involving personal appearances and social media content.

With the coronavirus crisis continuing to spread throughout the country, the NCAA is worried that the college football season may be hard-pressed to start on time. In response, some are beginning to talk about pushing the season into next year.

The NCAA will permit Division I spring-sport athletes — such as baseball, softball and lacrosse players — who had their seasons shortened by the coronavirus pandemic to have an additional year of eligibility.

Canceling March Madness because of the coronavirus pandemic will cost the NCAA about $375 million that it would have distributed to 350 schools across the nation.

The NCAA is being urged to conduct March Madness without any fans in the stands, over fears of the Coronavirus.

WASHINGTON (AP) — NCAA President Mark Emmert urged Congress put restrictions on college athletes’ ability to earn money from endorsements, telling a Senate committee Tuesday federal action is needed to “maintain uniform standards in college sports” amid player-friendly laws approved in California and under consideration in other states.

ATLANTA (AP) — The Latest on the NCAA task force’s report on the feasibility of allowing athletes to profit from their names and images.

The NCAA is warning California that a bill which would allow college athletes to be paid endorsement money is “unconstitutional,” and would materially harm college athletics nationwide.

The NCAA is warning that California schools could be banned from the championships over a bill allowing compensation for student-athletes.

The head of the scandal-plagued NCAA, a college league that does not pay its athletes, made nearly $4 million from 2017 to 2018, according to the organization’s financial report.

The NCAA is looking at how its rules can be modified to allow college athletes to be compensated for their names, images and likenesses.