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The NCAA says it plans to hold the entire 2021 men’s college basketball tournament in one location to mitigate the risks of the coronavirus

The Ivy League announced on Thursday that it would be canceling all winter sports as a result of surging coronavirus cases, making them the first Division I conference to cancel winter sports this year.

Students living off-campus at Fairfield University will not be allowed to return to campus for 14 days due to a recent spike in COVID-19 cases, according to the university. “Throughout the first six weeks of our semester, we experienced steady but limited numbers of COVID-19 cases; and at the beginning of this week, we witnessed a significant downward trend in…

The Basketball Hall of Fame and the Gazelle Group have made a proposal to the NCAA to hold a men’s college basketball “bubble” tournament at Mohegan Sun later this year. Hall of Fame vice president of operations Greg Procino and Mohegan Sun gaming and entertainment CMO told NBC Connecticut they have submitted the proposal to the NCAA and to...

The debate over whether the top college athletes should be paid more like professional players continues to rage, even as those athletes now have more avenues for making money while playing collegiate sports.

College athletes who play fall sports, including football, will be given a free year of eligibility no matter how much they compete over the next 10 months if an NCAA recommendation is approved later this week.

A group of senators led by Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal and Cory Booker of New Jersey on Thursday released a plan for reforming college sports with an athletes bill or rights. The legislative plan calls for college athletes to have the ability to earn money for their names, images and likenesses with “minimal restrictions,” and much more. The senators also…

Anthony Tall of the Aspires Sports Group breaks down down how sports across the board are still struggling dealing COVID-19.

The NCAA says college athletes should be tested for COVID-19 no more than 72 hours before a game, players with high-risk exposures to the coronavirus should be quarantined for 14 days and everybody on the sideline should wear a mask.

College football is scheduled to kick off in less than three months

The NCAA has released a long and detailed plan to help schools bring athletes back to campus during the pandemic

Colleges mulling whether to cut sports amid the coronavirus pandemic must ensure they remain compliant with the federal civil-rights law known as Title IX

The NCAA Division I Council voted Wednesday to lift a moratorium on voluntary workouts by football and basketball players effective June 1 as a growing number of college leaders expressed confidence that fall sports will be possible in some form despite concerns about the coronavirus pandemic.

The NCAA’s chief medical officer says widespread testing for coronavirus will be crucial to having college sports in the fall, especially contact sports such as football and basketball

For more than 60 years, NCAA leaders have insisted college athletes had to be amateurs

The NCAA announced on Wednesday that its men’s and women’s basketball tournaments will be held without fans in response to the coronavirus pandemic, limiting attendance to “essential staff and limited family.”

The NCAA will permit spring-sport Division I athletes who had their seasons shortened by the coronavirus outbreak to have an additional year of eligibility

The organization said Thursday it is canceling the tournaments due to the “evolving COVID-19 public health threat.”

The buzzer-beaters, upsets and all the other shining moments of this year’s NCAA tournaments will be played in mostly empty arenas. Trying to avoid spreading the new coronavirus that has become a global pandemic, the NCAA decided the men’s and women’s tournament games will be off-limits to the general public. NCAA President Mark Emmert said Wednesday that he made...

Colleges and universities can profit off the name, image, or likeness (NIL) of a student-athlete and some say it’s not fair that students can’t do the same. For years, the NCAA has been debating whether to allow student-athletes to receive paid endorsements. Now it’s a question facing Connecticut lawmakers. “The only reason that the NCAA is considering taking action...