Author: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY

Operating revenue for 50-plus Power Five public schools in fiscal 2021 fell by at least $1.7 billion compared to pre-pandemic levels.

Move sets stage for renewal of efforts to organize athletes at private schools into unionized collective bargaining units that may seek compensation.

While some schools are dismissed from suit, Notre Dame, Duke, Oregon, Purdue and Arizona will be added as defendants alongside the NCAA.

NCAA’s new federal tax records show that President Mark Emmert received a base salary increase of just over $175,000 during the 2019 calendar year.

Mark Emmert “hopeful and optimistic” Congress will pass bill related to college athletes’ ability to make money from their name, image and likeness.

The NCAA Council’s recommendation goes to the Board of Directors for a Wednesday vote. NIL state laws go into effect Thursday.

U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken denied NCAA’s request for a dismissal of the lawsuit that also calls for compensation from broadcast rights fees.

NCAA considering temporary solution in which schools in states with NIL laws will follow them and schools in states without laws will make own rules.