Category: NCAA News Wire
A federal judge ruled Friday that the NCAA’s restrictions on compensation for major college football and men’s basketball players violate antitrust laws. U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken issued in a 99-page decision that sided with former UCLA basketball player Ed O’Bannon and a group of plaintiffs. Wilken issued an injunction that will stop the NCAA […]
Lawyers for the playoffs in the Ed O’Bannon lawsuit against the NCAA are seeking $52.4 million in attorneys’ fees. The plaintiffs won a 5-year-old suit against the NCAA earlier this month. A judge had ruled that NCAA restrictions on compensation for major college football and men’s basketball players violate antitrust laws. The suit was initiated […]
A two-year investigation into impermissible telephone calls and text messages has resulted in the NCAA extending Georgia Tech’s probation for another two years. The men’s and women’s basketball teams as well as the football team made hundreds of calls and texts to recruits in 2011 and 2012, an investigation by the school and NCAA reveals. […]
LSU men’s basketball Coach Johnny Jones said on Tuesday that the school has hired ex-NBA head coach Eric Musselman as associate head coach. Musselman has spent the previous two years as associate head coach at Arizona State. “We are excited about the addition of Coach Eric Musselman,” Jones told the New Orleans Times-Picayune. “He brings […]
Former UCLA basketball star Ed O’Bannon took the stand in federal court Monday in the first day of an antitrust trial against the NCAA in Oakland, Calif. O’Bannon is the lead plaintiff in a case in which former Division I college athletes are seeking compensation for the billions of dollars schools earn in revenues. O’Bannon […]
University of North Carolina’s academic fraud scandal has turned toward the basketball program with claims made by former star Rashad McCants telling ESPN that he took bogus courses, rarely went to classes and tutors wrote his term papers. McCants said the extra help kept him eligible during the 2004-05 season when the Tar Heels won […]
Virginia reached agreement Tuesday with coach Tony Bennett on a new seven-year contract with annual compensation of $1.924 million. The new deal extends through the 2020-21 season and supersedes an extension that he signed with 2012 with a payout of $1.7 million per year. The Cavaliers won both the ACC regular-season and tournament titles in […]
EA Sports reached a $40 million settlement with college football and basketball players in the case involving the use of the likeness of athletes, ESPN.com reported Saturday. The settlement was reached in an Oakland, Calif., federal court Friday night. It leaves the NCAA alone to defend itself in the upcoming antitrust trial led by former […]
Manhattan coach Steve Masiello, who has been on unpaid leave by the school since April, has completed the requirements for his undergraduate degree from the University of Kentucky A spokesman for Kentucky told ESPN.com that Masiello completed his coursework and will be awarded a degree in August. It was discovered that Masiello had not earned […]
Florida coach Billy Donovan continues to say he plans to return to the Gators for his 19th season, but he admits he is still intrigued with the NBA. Donovan, speaking at the SEC spring meetings at Sandestin, Fla., on Tuesday, said previously he had spoken to a couple of teams about their coaching vacancies, but […]
