Last June, a month after the landmark House settlement was agreed to, NCAA president Charlie Baker told a group of athletes and administrators assembled in Atlanta that he'd like to see guidance on a national standard for how Title IX fits into revenue sharing.

As the sun sets on the Biden administration, the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education (OCR) provided a new Fact Sheet on Jan. 16, 2025, to “clarify” how Title IX will apply to universities’ direct payments to student-athletes for use of their names,

The U.S. Department of Education published a memo on Thursday providing guidance regarding name, image and likeness (NIL) compensation and its

The NIL era of college athletics is getting another big twist, this time courtesy of Title IX. The Department of Education determined in a memo that Title IX applies to name, image, and likeness (NIL) payments to college athletes.

There are persuasive arguments that Title IX ought to apply to distributions from the NCAA's pending settlement to resolve the House, Carter and Hubbard antitrust litigations. But just because a Department of Education says Title IX applies,