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Texas Tech Red Raiders – Official Athletics Website
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma – The Collegiate Women Sport Awards (CWSA) announced its four finalists for the Class of 2025 Honda Sport Award for Softball on Friday. Texas Tech’s NiJaree Canady was named one of the finalists after winning the award last season and having another phenomenal season on and off the field. The Honda Sport Award […]

The Honda Sport Award is being presented for the 49th year and it recognizes the top women athletes in 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports. The award is chosen to symbolize the best of the best in their respective sport and the winner becomes a finalist for the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year and the 2025 Honda Cup presented on June 30.
The finalists are chosen by a panel of coaches that are members of the National Fastpitch Coaches Association and is voted on by administrators from over 1,000 NCAA institutions.
Full release here.
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Surprising List Of Biggest NIL Spenders In College Football
It’s a well known assumption from college football fans that the Oregon Ducks are in the upper echelon of name, image, and likeness (NIL) investment. Through Nike founder Phil Knight creating Oregon’s NIL group Division Street, to the massive recent opportunities coming from institutions being able to share their revenue directly with athletes, the Ducks […]

It’s a well known assumption from college football fans that the Oregon Ducks are in the upper echelon of name, image, and likeness (NIL) investment.
Through Nike founder Phil Knight creating Oregon’s NIL group Division Street, to the massive recent opportunities coming from institutions being able to share their revenue directly with athletes, the Ducks are capitalizing off this new frontier in order to bring in the top talent.
Now, according to a new poll conducted by On3 of 17 stakeholders across college football (think coaches, NIL collectives, general managers, agents, and administration members) the Ducks are once again in the spotlight for spending.
Top Spenders in College Football (According to On3 Poll):
1. Texas Longhorns
2. Texas Tech
3. Ohio State
4. Oregon
5. Texas A&M & Miami
7. Michigan & USC
9. Tennessee
10. Auburn
The Ducks hit their No. 4 spot with 14 votes. Oregon and Arizona State are the only two West Coast teams to receive votes from this polling group, with the Sun Devils ultimately not making the list with two votes. Though Penn State did receive three votes, Michigan, USC, and Ohio State were ultimately the other Big Ten teams to join Oregon on the list.
It is important to note that On3 claims some polled stakeholders only opted to vote for a top five list, as they believed the cut off from the top five to the rest of the big spenders in college football was too vast.
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When looking at On3’s current NIL Valuations of players, Senior wide receiver Evan Stewart (who is likely to miss a chunk of the 2025 season due to a knee injury) clocks in at No. 37 in the country overall for NIL evaluations regardless of sport played at an estimated $1.7 million. He’s the only Oregon athlete listed, which could very well be a case of student athletes and universities only supplying the NCAA with deidentified data, and do not need to publicly unveil NIL values & payments.
Back in December of 2024, a report from CNBC placed Oregon out of their top ten most valuable college football team countdown with an estimated $780 million in value and $151 million in revenue.
The Oregonian also reported that the Ducks upped their spending across the athletic department by $18 million to accommodate the move from the PAC-12 to the Big Ten. The Oregonian also reported that they found projected expenses for the Ducks’ 2025 fiscal year count up to $162.8 million.
With highly valued transfer portal additions over the 2025 offseason like offensive tackle Isaiah World, interior offensive lineman Emmanuel Pregnon, running back Makhi Hughes, and safety Dillon Thieneman, the Ducks have their hands full with paying their current personell.
Looking to the future, the Ducks are topping the list of class of 2026 targets. Rival’s 2026 Industry Ranking Football Team Recruiting Rankings put the Ducks at No. 1 for spenders with an estimated $241,000 average per player.
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Alabama’s New Era Contends With NIL—and Nick Saban Rumors
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2025-26 Mountaineer Kids Club Memberships Now On Sale
Story Links MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Mountaineer Kids Club (MKC), presented by Crumbl Cookie, memberships are now available for the 2025-26 WVU Athletics season. The MKC is a great way for young Mountaineer fans to get involved in WVU Athletics and show off their Mountaineer pride all year long! Memberships […]

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Mountaineer Kids Club (MKC), presented by Crumbl Cookie, memberships are now available for the 2025-26 WVU Athletics season. The MKC is a great way for young Mountaineer fans to get involved in WVU Athletics and show off their Mountaineer pride all year long!
Memberships are $35 per child and can be purchased HERE. All memberships purchased online will be mailed to the address provided on your account unless otherwise noted. Membership packs will be mailed out beginning September 1.
Membership Benefits:
- Member Pack
- Official credential, lanyard, t-shirt, sunglasses, sticker sheet, wall flag and more!
- Ticket Deals
- FREE admission to all WVU regular-season home men’s soccer, women’s soccer, volleyball, women’s basketball, gymnastics and wrestling
- FREE ticket in the Family Fun Zone for the WVU football vs. RMU on Aug. 30 with the option to purchase additional tickets at a discounted rate.
- FREE ticket to a future Men’s Basketball game.
- FREE ticket to a future Baseball game.
- One free concession item coupon valid at any regular-season home game except football or men’s basketball
- Exclusive ShopWVU.com discount code for 15% off a single order
- A subscription to the monthly newsletter.
For more information, visit WVUsports.com/KidsClub and follow Mountaineer Kids Club on Facebook and X for up to date information (@WVUMKC).
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Johnny Manziel Says He Would’ve “Stayed In College Longer” Had NIL Existed
With the astronomical rise of name, image, and likeness (NIL) deals amongst college athletes, many football players have seen themselves receiving extensive financial gain, even before they reach the professional level. With as much as the young stars are reeling in, you can only wonder how much college football stars in past decades would have […]
With the astronomical rise of name, image, and likeness (NIL) deals amongst college athletes, many football players have seen themselves receiving extensive financial gain, even before they reach the professional level.
With as much as the young stars are reeling in, you can only wonder how much college football stars in past decades would have made under today’s statutes.
Among those you might wonder about is former Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel.
He wasn’t called “Money Manziel” for no reason.
After all, he was even suspended for the first half of the 2013 season opener against the Rice Owls after allegedly receiving payment for an autograph session earlier in the year.
But the quarterback out of Kerrville, TX believes that had NIL deals been around in the early 2010s, when he was playing in College Station, he would’ve made much more than he did in the NFL, and he would have stayed at A&M longer as well.
“I would have taken a pay cut had I gone to the NFL,” Manziel told Greg McElroy in an interview. “I think no matter what, being in the NIL era, if that would have been the equivalent of 2013, I would have stayed no matter what. Just because a couple million bucks in College Station goes a really, really long way. And you go to the NFL, you’re a first-round pick, you sign for $10 million or whatever it is, that’s the two years that I had remaining at Texas A&M, to be able to make through an NIL deal.”
“So, I think for me, when I think back about it now, if there had been any real money involved, I definitely would have stayed there no matter what.”
As we all know, Manziel’s professional career was none like his time on the field in College Station.
After being drafted 22nd overall by the Cleveland Browns in the 2014 NFL Draft, Manziel’s tumultuous time, including off-the-field issues that carried over from college, resulted in him being released not even two years into his contract.
And after equally forgettable years in the Canadian Football League with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Montreal Alouettes, and also in the short-lived Alliance of American Football, Manziel quietly retreated from the game of football, but is still seen at many Texas A&M athletic events both in College Station and on the road.
But the “what if” game could be played with “Johnny Football” all day, especially regarding NIL deals, and if his career had shaped out better had he been properly compensated for his elite play on the gridiron.
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President Donald Trump to sign executive order establishing national NIL standards amid evolving legislation
Getty Images President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order establishing national standards for name, image and likeness initiatives, according to CBS News. Within the past week, members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced an amended bill called the SCORE Act (Student Compensation and Opportunity through Rights and Endorsements) aiming to “protect the […]


President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order establishing national standards for name, image and likeness initiatives, according to CBS News. Within the past week, members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced an amended bill called the SCORE Act (Student Compensation and Opportunity through Rights and Endorsements) aiming to “protect the name, image, and likeness rights of student-athletes to promote fair compensation with respect to intercollegiate athletics, and for other purposes.”
The bill could open the door for federal standards for NIL legislation, superseding the current state laws that provide guidance on player compensation.
SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said Wednesday during an appearance on “SEC This Morning” that he had no knowledge of a pending executive order.
“The President clearly has an interest in sports, big picture, has an interest in college sports,” Sankey said. “He has been at our games. The notion of an executive order has been mentioned before. There were some reports of a commission or an executive order back to like, April, I think, is when that started to bubble. So we’ll wait and see … I don’t have any inside information about what generated those reports late last evening.”
Trump has shown a keen interest in college athletics in the early months of his second term. In May, reports emerged that Trump intended to create a college sports commission, headed by prominent Texas Tech booster Cody Campbell and legendary former coach Nick Saban, that would investigate pressing issues such as NIL reform; however, the White House put those plans on hiatus. A completely unrelated College Sports Commission (CSC) was created in the wake of the House v. NCAA settlement, which opened the door for athletes to profit off of revenue sharing.
The CSC, in partnership with consulting firm Deloitte, launched an online portal called “NIL Go,” where athletes can report third-party NIL deals to ensure that they match “fair market value” and include a valid business purpose based on an actual endorsement.
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President Donald Trump to sign executive order establishing national NIL standards amid …
Getty Images President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order establishing national standards for name, image and likeness initiatives, according to CBS News. Within the past week, members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced an amended bill called the SCORE Act (Student Compensation and Opportunity through Rights and Endorsements) aiming to “protect the […]


President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order establishing national standards for name, image and likeness initiatives, according to CBS News. Within the past week, members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced an amended bill called the SCORE Act (Student Compensation and Opportunity through Rights and Endorsements) aiming to “protect the name, image, and likeness rights of student-athletes to promote fair compensation with respect to intercollegiate athletics, and for other purposes.”
The bill could open the door for federal standards for NIL legislation, superseding the current state laws that provide guidance on player compensation.
SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said Wednesday during an appearance on “SEC This Morning” that he had no knowledge of a pending executive order.
“The President clearly has an interest in sports, big picture, has an interest in college sports,” Sankey said. “He has been at our games. The notion of an executive order has been mentioned before. There were some reports of a commission or an executive order back to like, April, I think, is when that started to bubble. So we’ll wait and see … I don’t have any inside information about what generated those reports late last evening.”
Trump has shown a keen interest in college athletics in the early months of his second term. In May, reports emerged that Trump intended to create a college sports commission, headed by prominent Texas Tech booster Cody Campbell and legendary former coach Nick Saban, that would investigate pressing issues such as NIL reform; however, the White House put those plans on hiatus. A completely unrelated College Sports Commission (CSC) was created in the wake of the House v. NCAA settlement, which opened the door for athletes to profit off of revenue sharing.
The CSC, in partnership with consulting firm Deloitte, launched an online portal called “NIL Go,” where athletes can report third-party NIL deals to ensure that they match “fair market value” and include a valid business purpose based on an actual endorsement.
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