Supreme Court questions NCAA compensation limits
Supreme Court justices on Wednesday voiced significant questions about NCAA athletes’ compensation limits, but also raised concerns that a case challenging these limits could destroy college sports as it currently exists.
His comments were made during oral argument in a case appealed by the NCAA and 11 co-defendants to the grand conference after lower courts ruled that the association’s compensation limits violate antitrust law and that there should be no national limits on benefits related to education athletes who play Division I men’s or women’s basketball or Bowl Subdivision football can receive.
The arguments were heard by teleconference, as was the procedure of the higher court during the COVID-19 pandemic. A decision is expected later this spring or early summer.
Among the benefits that would be allowed by the courts of first instance are the payment in cash for various academic achievements, scholarships to complete undergraduate or graduate courses at any school and paid internships after they have completed their eligibility for college sports.
NCAA attorney Seth Waxman argued that legal precedents and the law itself should allow the NCAA to establish compensation rules because the public benefits from having a choice between professional and amateur sports, as the NCAA defines amateur sports.
However, he faced a timely investigation by almost all the judges, with Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh saying that “antitrust laws should not be a cover for the exploitation of student-athletes.”
Kavanaugh added: “It seems that … schools are conspiring with competitors – agreeing with competitors, say so – not to pay salaries to workers who are earning billions of dollars for school based on the theory that consumers want them to schools don’t pay anything to their staff. And that seems totally circular and even a little disturbing. “
On the other hand, Supreme Court President John G. Roberts Jr., questioning the plaintiffs’ attorney, Jeff Kessler, spoke about the notion that the decision – and the additional benefits – passed by lower courts in this case could take more and more legal erosion of any limits on athletes’ compensation.
There is already a new case underway that not only calls for the NCAA to be prevented from having rules for the entire association that “restrict the amount of available name, image and likeness compensation” for athletes, but also seeks unspecified damages based on in the participation of the television rights money and the social media gains that the claimants claim that the athletes would have received had the current NCAA limits on NIL compensation not existed.
Reaves from OU declares for NBA Draft
OU guard Austin Reaves is heading to the NBA Draft, he told ESPN.
The 1.80 meter Reaves led the Sooners with 18.3 points per game, 5.5 rebounds and 4.6 assists this season, becoming the first OU player to lead in all three categories in over 40 years. .
Reaves came out on top, with a courageous effort of 27 points in the 87-71 defeat of the Sooners in the NCAA Tournament in the second round for Gonzaga.
Reaves arrived in OU as an excellent 3-point shooter, but remade his game on Norman, becoming a versatile point guard.
Reaves is the third Sooners player to declare himself for the draft, joining De’Vion Harmon and Kur Kuath. Harmon is a sophomore, while Reaves and Kuath were veterans, although all players were giving an extra season of eligibility this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so they could have returned.
Brady Manek and Alondes Williams have yet to reveal their intentions, while freshman Trey Phipps has announced his transfer decision.
NEW MEXICO: Former Del City star Terry Wilson will play his final year of college football in New Mexico. Wilson started parts of three seasons in Kentucky. New Mexico has seven other defenders in its squad, which add up to 20 starting games. Wilson is the only player in Kentucky history with at least 3,000 passing yards in his career (3,436) and 1,000 running yards in his career (1,015).
OKLAHOMA: Golfer Sooners Kaitlin Milligan hit 1 to 73 and was tied for 15th after the first round of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur on Wednesday. The first 30 arrive in the final round on Saturday in Augusta
UConn’s Paige Bueckers is AP’s Player of the Year
UConn playmaker Paige Bueckers became the first freshman to win the Associated Press player of the year award on Wednesday.
Bueckers helped lead the Huskies to their 13th consecutive Final Four with 28 points in the regional final over Baylor on Monday night.
Maryland coach Brenda Frese was honored as the women’s basketball coach of the year for the second time.
TEXAS A&M: Aaliyah Wilson, Aggies’ top scorer this season, announced via Twitter that she is declaring herself for the WNBA 2021 Draft. Wilson, a former Muskogee star and member of The Oklahoman’s Super 5 team, is the second Aggie to enter the draft, joining senior striker N’dea Jones. Wilson ended the season as the Aggies’ top scorer with 356 points, totaling 165 rebounds, 51 steals and 23 blocks..
END OF TUESDAY: Dawn Staley and South Carolina beat Vic Schaefer once again on Tuesday night, beating sixth-placed Texas 62-34 to reach the Final Four. The most successful Gamecocks will play at Stanford at 5 pm on Friday. … Lexie Hull had 21 points, Ashten Prechtel scored 16 points for each in the second half and Stanford made it to the Final Four by fighting for a 78-63 victory over Louisville on Tuesday night.
Two members of the Pandhandle State rodeo killed in a car accident
Two members of the Panhandle State rodeo team died in a car accident last weekend en route to an event in Garden City, Kansas.
Freshman Cinch Bullock of Campo, Colorado, and veteran Hadly McCormick of Scotts Bluff, Nebraska, died. A third team member, Ira Dickinson, a junior from Rock Springs, Wyoming, was injured in the accident.
2 more women sue Watson of Texans
The legal teams representing Deshaun Watson and the women who accuse him of sexual misconduct continued their public stance on Tuesday night and early Wednesday, when two more women filed lawsuits against the Houston Texans quarterback.
Watson’s team, led by Rusty Hardin, released a press release with official statements from 18 women who said they had already had massage sessions with Watson and that he never acted inappropriately.
Meanwhile, Tony Buzbee, who filed suit on behalf of Watson’s accusers, reversed the course and indicated that his clients do not intend to report to the police.
Watson, 25, is facing civil suits in the Harris County District Court for a total of 21 unidentified women – including two complaints that went public on Wednesday morning.
SEAHAWKS: Former Tulsa Washington High School star Tyler Lockett will stay with the Seattle Seahawks, and likely to be Russell Wilson’s favorite target in the foreseeable future.
The Seahawks and Lockett agreed to an extension of the four-year contract that includes a guaranteed $ 37 million, according to a person with knowledge of the business.
Lockett, 28, is coming out of the best season of his career, with 100 receptions for 1,054 yards and 10 touchdowns.
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