told CBS Sports. There was always a risk to this strategy, though, whether that was the House settlement approval process being delayed or a guidance like the Department of Education's coming down.

But the reality of modern college sports – in which football factories are fed by billion-dollar TV contracts, and the transfer portal makes education an afterthought – now bears little ...

The plans that many major college athletic departments are making for how they will distribute new direct payments to their athletes would violate Title IX law, according to a memo published by ...