Colleges

PHOENIX - President Donald Trump has weighed in on college athletics again, signing an executive order Friday that sought to address everything from transfer limits to protecting women’s and Olympic sports from cuts.

The South Carolina Senate “joined the House in overriding” Gov. Henry McMaster’s veto of a bill that keeps the state’s college athletes’ NIL deals private, officially “shielding universities’ revenue-sharing deals from public view,” according to Jon Blau of the Charleston POST & COURIER. The Sen...

NCAA leadership is “expected to finalize an expansion of the men’s and women’s tournaments to 76 teams … soon after the completion of this year’s NCAA tournament,” according to sources cited by Ross Dellenger of YAHOO SPORTS. A proposal socialized with members last year noted that “eight games would...

The cost to get into the NCAA Men’s Final Four in Indianapolis on Saturday is “much less than what it would have been if Duke had closed out the game against UConn in the Elite Eight,” according to YAHOO SPORTS. Get-in ticket prices “peaked” during the day on Sunday “when it looked like Duke was goi...

Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark this week snapped back at Texas Tech Board of Regents Chair Cody Campbell, saying Campbell “does not run the Big 12” after he “complained publicly about the conference and its television partners,” according to Don Williams of the LUBBOCK AVALANCHE-JOURNAL. Campbell...

INDIANAPOLIS -- The shirt presses pounding away in Campus Ink’s headquarters sound almost melodic.

Kentucky and Fanatics are set to announce a lengthy renewal of their relationship around e-commerce, wholesale and trading cards, Sports Business Journal has learned. The deal, which is slated to be announced on Friday, also includes a significant annual NIL activation fund for select Kentucky athle...

Florida AD Scott Stricklin said that capacity of the 88,548-seat Ben Hill Griffin Stadium “won’t be impacted in its multi-million-dollar renovation” of the facility. Initially, it was feared that UF could “lose as many as 3,000 to 5,000 seats” due to widening concourses to make the stadium compliant...

The Pac-12 is set to hire Kraken exec KENDALL TYSON as its CFO, sources tell SBJ. Tyson will spearhead day-to-day financial matters, overseeing all fiscal operations and long-term financial planning, focusing on budgeting, forecasting and revenue distribution.

Univ. of Alabama AD Greg Byrne believes that the SEC Championship game “should be no more” and “would prefer to proceed directly from the regular season to the CFP,” according to Blake Toppmeyer of USA TODAY. Byrne called the SEC Championship a “great event,” adding he does not “like the idea of it ...