NCAA approves start date for college basketball
Lawrence Kreymer, Sports Editor
September 20, 2020
Six months after the 2019-2020 college basketball season was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the sport now has its start date for the upcoming season. The Division I council voted on Wednesday to approve Nov. 25 as the start date for the men’s and women’s college basketball season, tw...
COMMENTARY: New NCAA recommendations for NIL don’t mean anything until real plan is in place
Lawrence Kreymer, Sports Editor
May 4, 2020
On Wednesday, the NCAA admitted they are a bunch of hypocrites when it comes to student-athletes making money based on their name, image and likeness (NIL). During a media call, the NCAA announced that its Board of Governors supported rule changes to allow student-athletes to make money from th...
NCAA takes new steps in name, image, likeness rules
Nate Burleyson, Assistant Sports Editor
May 4, 2020
The NCAA has made its next step in allowing student-athletes to profit off of their name, image and likeness. On Wednesday , the board of governors supported a rule change that would grant student-athletes the opportunity to receive compensation from third-party commercial entities. Through endorsem...
NCAA decision gives spring sports athletes extra opportunity
Nate Burleyson, Assistant Sports Editor
April 6, 2020
DePaul spring sports athletes had to cope with the quick news that they would not be playing another second of their still-young seasons in mid-March, when the Big East shut down all spring sports competition due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Softball, men’s and women’s tennis, men’s golf, and men’s and women’s tra...
Division 1 Council grants extra year of eligibility for spring sport athletes
Nate Burleyson, Asst. Sports Editor
March 30, 2020
The NCAA Division I Council voted to allow schools to grant spring sport athletes an extra year of eligibility on Monday, in light of the cancellation of all division one sports for the rest of the academic year due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Scholarship rules were adjusted to allow schools to retain more ...
NCAA considering changing transfer rules to allow student-athletes to be eligible immediately
Nate Burleyson, Assistant Sports Editor
February 23, 2020
The discourse in college sports this past academic year was dominated early around paying student-athletes due to bills passed by state legislators around the country. In 2020, words from various conferences like the B1G and ACC have sparked a further discussion over changes to the transfer portal. More s...
State bills pressure NCAA to change ways
Nate Burleyson, Assistant Sports Editor
November 18, 2019
The discourse around paying college athletes has been growing more and more in recent months. The name, image and likeness argument based around athletes not being able to profit from their image has started to move in an unprecedented direction for the NCAA. California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bil...
NCAA board approves athlete compensation for image, likeness
Ralph D. Russo, Associated Press
October 29, 2019
The NCAA took a major step Tuesday toward allowing college athletes to cash in on their fame, voting to permit them to "benefit from the use of their name, image and likeness." The nation's largest governing body for college sports and its member schools now must figure out how to allow athletes to...
OPINION: NCAA needs to pay up
Brian Gilbert, Contributing Writer
October 14, 2019
It’s absolutely time for college athletes to get paid. It’s also time for the NCAA and the federal government to come together and cooperate on creating a federal Fair Pay to Play bill that would allow college athletes across the nation to make money off their name, image or likeness. Some states,...
COMMENTARY: Fair Play Act won’t let the NCAA hide behind old excuses
Lawrence Kreymer and Nate Burleyson
October 7, 2019
A storm is brewing in college athletics – one that the NCAA can’t contain anymore. It’s time to pay their student-athletes. For 113 years, the NCAA has prevented its student-athletes from getting paid or making money based off their likeness, as well as barring them from accepting any endorsement ...
California to let college athletes sign endorsement deals
Adam Beam, Associated Press
September 30, 2019
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Defying the NCAA, California's governor signed a first-in-the-nation law Monday that will let college athletes hire agents and make money from endorsements — a move that could upend amateur sports in the U.S. and trigger a legal challenge. Under the law, which takes effect...
Leitao to receive extension following NCAA sanctions
Shane René, Editor-in-Chief
September 16, 2019
For close to two decades, DePaul’s men’s basketball program has been searching for a head coach that can return the Blue Demons to their winning ways. This past Thursday the university doubled down on current head coach Dave Leitao, announcing his contract will be extended through the 2023-24 basketball...
