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The National Collegiate Athletic Association published its Graduation Success Rates (GSR) on Tuesday for student-athletes who entered college between 2012-15 and graduated within a six-year period. The report, which focuses on graduation rate trends from 2019-22, found the overall single-year GSR for Division I student-athletes was 90% — the highest …

The NCAA Board of Governors decided to hand over the power of determining transgender athlete eligibility within their transitioned-to gender. Effective immediately for winter championships, national sports’ governing bodies will serve as the de-facto mold for each sports’ transgender athlete policy. The policy replaces the NCAA’s 2010 ruling, which based …

Paul Finebaum, an American sports author and former columnist, spoke with Steve Russell about what’s trending in college football. Tim Tebow in NFL Speculations about Tim Tebow joining the Jacksonville Jaguars as a tight end have made quite an impression on the NFL community despite nothing official. Tebow‘s last appeared …

The NCAA has been under scrutiny as of late. Earlier this month, photos of the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament bubble in San Antonio caught fire on social media. The image showed the disparity between the women and men’s weight room. Women were provided with a singular dumb bell rack along …

On Thursday, NCAA president Mark Emmert said there will be no championships for Soccer, Cross Country and Volleyball. These sports fell below the 50 percent participation line that Emmert said was needed to have a truly viable championship. With conferences and schools beginning to bow out of fall sports, the …

As we enter the Fall semester, fans and athletes are waiting for answers about college sports — especially college football. Some schools have completely canceled Fall sports, while others have decided to push them back. Power Five conferences — SEC, Big Ten, Pac-12, ACC and Big-12 — have decided to …

A bill proposed in California is one step closer to altering the relationship between college athletes and paid endorsements. The Fair Pay to Play Act, proposed by Sen. Nancy Skinner of California, would allow college athletes to be paid for their name, image or likeness. The bill would make it …

Documents released last week from the FBI’s investigation into the corruption of men’s college basketball showed that players from more than 20 Division 1 schools possibly violated NCAA rules. On Saturday, NCAA President Mark Emmert emphasized the importance of making changes to the current rules of the NCAA. With NCAA …