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An Arms Race
Big-time college sports programs are competing to offer more to their athletes. Are they creating more gender inequity at the same time?
Playing Catch-Up on Concussions
NCAA releases guidelines (not rules) recommending limits on football practices that allow contact, provision of independent medical care for players, and consistent treatment of brain-related injuries.
Northwestern Gets an Assist
Republican lawmakers and the National Collegiate Athletic Association file amicus briefs urging National Labor Relations Board to reverse a regional director's decision allowing football players to unionize.
Video Games Go Varsity
Should League of Legends, a popular video game, be a varsity sport? An Illinois university thinks so.
Opinion
Regulate, Don't Litigate, Change in College Sports
Antitrust lawsuits could force major (and much-needed) change in commercialized college sports -- but some of the results would be bad for athletes, write Matt Mitten and Steve Ross. Congress should step in instead.
Opinion
The Threat to the NCAA
A year after predicting that big-time college sports is invulnerable to legal challenges, Murray Sperber changes his mind.
Amateurism on Trial
As major antitrust class action involving players' likenesses gets under way, NCAA settles related lawsuit over video game images for $20 million.
Opinion
Professors Need Not Apply
The NCAA's new governance model aims to put college sports on a stronger academic footing -- so, Josephine Potuto wonders, why will faculty members have far less authority in it?