The U.S. Department of Education says plans for colleges to pay athletes directly for their name, image and likeness deals would run afoul of Title IX.

The NIL era of college athletics is getting another big twist, this time courtesy of Title IX. The Department of Education determined in a memo that Title IX applies to name, image, and likeness (NIL) payments to college athletes.

The direct payment plans that many major college athletic departments are making for athletes would violate Title IX law, according to a Department of Education memo.

U.S. Department of Education defines NIL as financial aid that must be proportional for male and female athletes

OCR’s Title IX guidance reshapes college athletics by requiring proportional NIL revenue sharing between male and female athletes, challenging budgets.

In a groundbreaking development, the Department of Education has issued new guidance on Title IX that could significantly change the financial landscape for female athletes in coll

There are persuasive arguments that Title IX ought to apply to distributions from the NCAA's pending settlement to resolve the House, Carter and Hubbard antitrust litigations. But just because a Department of Education says Title IX applies,