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The NIL clearinghouse got hit with legal pressure yesterday over rejected deals while Arch Manning earns $5.4 million and nobody can legally define what a prohibited payment looks like. This is not an enforcement problem. It is a taxonomy problem, and building rules on undefined terms produces exactly the chaos we are watching.
By Jax Moreno · 3 min read
Fernando Mendoza skipped the Combine, the critics woke up, and none of it matters. A 72nd-ranked recruit who went 16-0, won the Heisman, and ran in the national championship-winning touchdown already made his case. The Raiders know it. The market knows it. The question is whether you trust your eyes.
By Rook Calloway · 3 min read
NIL corrected a century of exploitation and put real money in athletes' hands for the first time. It also unleashed a lawless marketplace that is litigating itself into incoherence and hollowing out the locker room culture that made college sports worth caring about. Both things are true, and pretending otherwise is a failure of nerve.
By Rook Calloway · 4 min read