Gene Smith is glad the NCAA will allow student-athletes to benefit from their name, image and likeness, but believes it remains important to protect the college sports model.
The NCAA Board of Governors moved toward allowing student-athletes to benefit from their name, image and likeness on Tuesday, though it's still unclear what will happen next.
Two days after California's Fair Play Act was signed, Ohio is considering a similar plan to allow student-athletes to sign endorsement deals and profit off their name and likeness.
Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith believes it is necessary for name, image and likeness benefits to be regulated and for the same rules to apply to all 50 states.
California schools will be prevented from punishing student-athletes for receiving compensation beginning in 2023, presenting a major challenge to the NCAA's amateurism model.
It's been said that advanced AI and automation will soon render human work obsolete, but with the introduction of neural writing networks, the future of sportswriting is now....
Minnesota's heavyweight superstar Gable Steveson and teammate Dylan Martinez were arrested Saturday night on "probable cause criminal sexual conduct" by Minneapolis Police.
Ohio State began selling alcohol in Ohio Stadium during football games several years ago, and the sky did not fall. Other schools aren't quite as convinced.
There's always a laundry list of items that fans and universities want from their revenue-sport head coaches. Michigan checked off the superficial boxes, at least.
Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith has been appointed to co-chair a working group that will examine the NCAA's position on name, image and likeness benefits.
Watching college sports is all about how we allocate time, and while Ohio State football is a great investment, men's basketball sometimes wasn't in 2019.
