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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The NCAA has decided to remove a regulation prohibiting student-athletes from engaging in financially beneficial agreements related to their names, images, and likenesses prior to joining a particular college. This announcement was made by Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti on Monday following an agreement reached in a legal dispute concerning this policy. Skrmetti along with several attorneys general filed a lawsuit against the NCAA regarding its prohibition on using athletes' names, images, and likenesses for recruitment, claiming that this policy breaches antitrust regulations. The suggested agreement needs to gain approval from a federal judge before it can proceed. In a statement, Skrmetti remarked, "Given the multibillion-dollar entertainment sector burgeoning from the base of collegiate athletics, those who drive this success shouldn’t be the sole individuals barred from having the chance to thrive." An NCAA spokespe...

SMU, Dayton, UC Irvine and San Francisco are the No. 1 seeds in the 2025 National Invitation Tournament, organizers revealed Sunday night. Out of the 32 teams participating, only four — SMU, Stanford, Georgia Tech, and Oklahoma State — come from one of the five major conferences, which could indicate a notable drop in overall competitiveness for this customary mid-level competition. The programs that turned down tournament invitations comprised Indiana, Northwestern, Rutgers, Wake Forest, Pitt, LSU, and South Carolina.Indiana found itself just outside the top 68 spots for the NCAA Tournament.For comparison purposes, LSU (with a record of 3-15 within the Southeastern Conference) and South Carolina (at 2-16) stood as the sole two representatives from the SEC who did not make it into the NCAA Tournament out of a total of 16 eligible teams. The intention was to have exemption bids for two teams from both the ACC and SEC conferences. In this case, SMU and Georgia Tech stand as r...

Even though they might be part of the intellectual elite, Harvard students Could finish their degree without picking up a single work of fiction throughout their tenure at the nation's most ancient institution of higher learning. Scolding her fellow 25,000 students at the institution founded in 1636, Claire Miller asserts that the university ought to mandate them to read at least one book. In The Harvard Crimson, the campus newspaper, Ms. Miller has advocated for making an English course mandatory for students, who annually pay over $56,000 (£44,350) in tuition fees. She posed a query to her colleagues, saying, "Can anyone recall when they last finished reading an entire book?" For someone planning to concentrate in English, it happened last week for me. However, if you inquire about this with fellow students from different majors, they're more inclined to respond with an indifferent shrug. Students at Harvard frequently gripe about the reading ass...