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Jayhawks new and familiar will compete in outdoor nationals

The 11 Kansas athletes who will compete in the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Oregon’s famous Hayward Field beginning on Wednesday run the gamut in terms of experience. On one side are veterans like decathletes Alexander Jung and Tayton Klein, discus thrower Dimitrios Pavlidis ...

A $2.8 billion settlement will change college sports forever. Here’s how

A federal judge has approved terms of a sprawling $2.8 billion antitrust settlement that will upend the way college sports have been run for more than a century. In short, schools can now directly pay players through licensing deals — a concept that goes against the foundation of amateurism ...