A $2.8 billion settlement will change college sports forever. Here’s how – Lawrence Journal-World

Jun 7, 2025 @ 9:11am – Other Sports – Eddie Pells, AP National Writer
A federal judge has approved terms of a sprawling $2.8 billion antitrust settlement that will upend the way college sports have been run for more than a century. In short, schools can now directly pay players through licensing deals — a concept that goes against the foundation of amateurism …
Jun 7, 2025 @ 9:06am – KU Men’s Basketball – Henry Greenstein
Not much of Kansas’ nonconference men’s basketball schedule came as a surprise. The vast majority of the Jayhawks’ prominent matchups had been previously reported, including the cornerstone of the home schedule — UConn — mere hours before KU officially announced the slate, and games …
Jun 6, 2025 @ 8:45pm – Other Sports – Eddie Pells, AP National Writer
A federal judge signed off on arguably the biggest change in the history of college sports on Friday, clearing the way for schools to begin paying their athletes millions of dollars as soon as next month as the multibillion-dollar industry shreds the last vestiges of the amateur model that …
Jun 6, 2025 @ 12:54pm – KU Women’s Basketball – Henry Greenstein
When the new members of the Kansas women’s basketball team were trying on their new gear, head coach Brandon Schneider heard one of them say, “It’s finally great to see my name on the back of the jersey.” Incoming freshman Jaliya Davis, an Overland Park native who starred at Blue …
Jun 6, 2025 @ 11:02am – KU Sports – Henry Greenstein
Updated 8:30 p.m. Friday, June 6: The Kansas athletic department is on track to be “right around budget” for the fiscal year 2025 that concludes at the end of June, Chief Financial Officer Pat Kaufman told members of the board of directors on Friday. It’s a significant shift from KU …
Jun 5, 2025 @ 8:09am – KU Women’s Basketball – Henry Greenstein
When Kansas women’s basketball coach Brandon Schneider met with his team on Monday, one of the first things he told them was that the staff had been looking forward to that day for about 89 days — that is, since the Jayhawks’ unceremonious first-round Big 12 tournament loss to Texas Tech …
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