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Adrian Wojnarowski Auctioning Off Old iPhones for NIL Money Is GeniusFormer ESPN insider Adrian Wojnarowski is auctioning off his old iPhones and NBA media credentials for NIL money for St. Bonaventure's NIL fund, a genius move....

Jaguars hire Anthony Campanile as defensive coordinatorThe Jacksonville Jaguars hired Anthony Campanile as defensive coordinator.,"Anthony Campanile represents exactly what we want to be as a defensive unit and football team," head coach Liam Coen said in a statement issued Thursday. "He brings an aggressive defensive mindset and a system that is adapta...

AJ Dybantsa to BYU Shows NIL Is Out of Control in College SportsProjected 2026 NBA Draft No. 1 overall pick AJ Dybantsa signed with the BYU Cougars on First Take, proving that NIL is out of control in the landscape of college sports....

WTA roundup: Qinwen Zheng KOs Sofia Kenin, wins Pan Pacific Open

Top-seeded Qinwen Zheng outlasted wild card Sofia Kenin 7-6 (5), 6-3 to win the final of the Pan Pacific Open on Sunday in Tokyo.,Zheng, of China, fired 16 aces to dispatch Kenin in one hour, 52 minutes and claim her third WTA Tour singles title of the year and fifth of her career. She also won the ...

UNLV QB Matthew Sluka Just Quit on Undefeated Team, Father Says University Never Paid Him

Matthew Sluka is red-shirting this year and will not play quarterback for the undefeated UNLV Rebels after reportedly getting offered more NIL money elsewhere....

NIL, Private Equity Poses Serious Threat to College Football

As the NIL landscape evolves, it becomes increasingly likely that private equity firms can get involved in college football and threaten the landscape of the sport....

Report: Arch Manning Paid Around $60,000 To Promote College Football 25 by EA Sports

According to On3 Sports, Texas Longhorns top recruit Arch Manning was paid handsomely by EA Sports to be in NCAA 25....

Keeping track of all the NBA trades before the deadline ends

The NBA Trade Deadline is officially upon us. While the deadline may not be as exciting as years past with big stars going on the move, it’s a deadline that’s as important as any in recent memory. Both conferences are up for grabs, with no real contender running away with it. Can someone make a move...

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SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey is more powerful than the NCAA

In any drug kingpin story worth watching, there’s inevitably the scene where a policeman gets threatened or flat-out killed as a warning or retribution. Usually, it precedes and prompts the anti-hero’s downfall. SEC commissioner Greg Sankey more or less sent the NCAA a hand-written note with the nam...

by Sean Beckwith|

|Sat Feb 03 2024

nil - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights | DeadspinThis year’s Australian Open is drunk

The Australian Open is already kind of geared for weirdos, at least on these shores, given that you have to sacrifice sleep and any usefulness the next day to enjoy it. But this year’s edition has been off the rails, making it even more worth it for those of us who are prepared to throw ourselves of...

by Sam Fels|

|Fri Jan 19 2024

This week’s award for grossest act goes to the ATP Tour players

It’s one thing when a sport either ignores or is oblivious to whatever is surrounding a certain player or individual. It’s quite another when they know and just don’t care. Such is the case with this week’s announcement that the ATP Tour players had chosen Alexander Zverev to their players’ council....

by Sam Fels|

|Thu Jan 11 2024

NCAA wants to try something new with NIL

The NCAA has proposed a new rule to its NIL format that would allow for Division I schools to directly enter deals with its athletes. ...

by nil - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights | DeadspinMackenzie Meaney|

|Tue Dec 05 2023

Aaron Rodgers can't stop being a total idiot

It’s been nearly two weeks since America last rolled their eyes at Aaron Rodgers, thus giving him the attention he so desperately craves, so you knew he was going to say something galaxy-brained and bone-headed before the week was up. Luckily, we have Pat McAfee paying him for that, so we were not d...

by Julie DiCaro|

|Wed Nov 22 2023

Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce and other high profile athlete-celebrity romances that make you go, 'Hmmm'

Even if you’re famous, having someone to cuddle with at night is still a priority. It’s harder in the public eye to keep who your bedmate is on the down low, and in some cases, wondering how these pairs came together is more interesting than their relationship itself. Have we seen a more notorious a...

by Eric Blum|

|Sat Sep 30 2023

Djokovic and Gauff were machines at the US Open

There are a lot of ways to win in tennis. Novak Djokovic has found all of them. Coco Gauff may yet one day, though she found the one for this US Open. While Djokovic has had to vary his game at various points to overcome various challenges, at the base of it all remains the same truth as the day he ...

by Sam Fels|

|Mon Sep 11 2023

The US Open has been a tough watch the past few days

The US Open used to bill itself as “The World’s Toughest Tennis.” It’s New York, which has to bill anything having to do with itself as the “biggest and toughest” or the city will collapse in on itself. But the Open was on hardcourt, it was at the end of summer so it was hot, and they used to make p...

by Sam Fels|

|Thu Sep 07 2023

NIL and the reckoning of college athletics

When you give someone an inch to placate their desire for a mile, don’t be surprised when they still ask for a mile. For college football players and other student-athletes, name, image, and likeness deals were not the final step in fixing the flawed system that is college athletics, but rather a fi...

by Sean Beckwith|

|Tue Sep 05 2023

Northwestern’s decision to keep Pat Fitzgerald’s assistants is proof that Northwestern isn’t a serious place

nil - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights | DeadspinNorthwestern’s decision to keep Pat Fitzgerald’s assistants is proof that Northwestern isn’t a serious place

The “intellectual elite” are failing in Evanston. In the same week in which we discovered that Northwestern’s head football coach Pat Fitzgerald’s laughable two-week suspension should have led to his eventual firing for running a program that’s “allegedly” allowed hazing and racism to run rampant fo...

by Carron J. Phillips|

|Thu Jul 13 2023

World Cup Group D Preview: Can England complete the set?

The question in all sports has been that once you break through and win, does winning again become easier? Is the mental block gone? Or does the pressure simply build even more, as triumphs go from hoped for to expected? This is only one of the few things that England will be wrestling with at the W...

by Sam Fels|

|Thu Jul 13 2023

Simone Biles' return to competition needs to be applauded before her first routine begins

The GOAT is back. The best to ever appear on the floor, beam, vault, and uneven bars is returning to competition after nearly two years away from gymnastics. Simone Biles last competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, which was of course delayed a year because of the pandemic. Her return to the sport in...

by Eric Blum|

|Wed Jun 28 2023

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