Author: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY

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.

NCAA President Mark Emmert and the association’s lawyers indicated Supreme Court ruling in the Alston case won’t be end of their legal maneuvering.

The Shawne Alston case challenged the NCAA’s ability to put national limits on benefits collegiate athletes could receive related to education.

It’s unknown how revenue from an expanded CFP would be divided, so it’s hard to estimate how much more money conferences – and schools – would get.

In statements to USA TODAY Sports, two senators indicated they see a CFP expansion proposal as problematic for athletes in the current environment.

Questions that remain are: When might a bill be passed? What else — if anything — will Congress address, along with name, image and likeness?

Five members of Congress are introducing a bill that would make college athletes at public schools employees and allow them to collectively bargain.

New federal tax records give first look at Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren’s pay and show pay decrease for outgoing Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott.