College athletes

NCAA President Mark Emmert is urging Congress to step in and put restrictions on college athletes' ability to earn money from endorsements.

The NCAA is stepping up its lobbying efforts as Congress considers allowing endorsement money for college athletes. NCAA and its allies spent at least $750,000 to lobby.

The NCAA took a major step toward allowing college athletes to cash in on their fame, voting to permit them to "benefit from the use of their name, image and likeness."

Graduation rates continue to hit record highs. 89% of all college athletes who enrolled in college in 2012 earned degrees, an increase of 1 percentage point over 2018's all-time high.

Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott has serious concerns about a new law that would allow college athletes in California to hire agents and to be compensated.

A federal judge has approved an amended settlement in a class-action concussion lawsuit against the NCAA that will establish a 50-year medical-monitoring program.

NCAA's latest scorecard on college athletes to earn degrees continues at record rates, posting an all-time high of 87 percent.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — College athletes continue to produce record scores in the classroom. The NCAA's most recent Academic Progress Report shows the four-year average in Division I was 981, two points higher than last year. Scores are calculated by giving each player on each team one point per semester for remaining academically eligible and another point each semester if they remain in school or gr

SEATTLE (AP) — College athletes who sued the NCAA and video-game maker Electronic Arts over the use of their likenesses are seeing the payoff. Attorneys at the Hagens Berman firm said Thursday they mailed out the first checks last week to roughly 15,000 of the 24,000 players eligible to receive money. The...