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"This kind of institutional courage is rare." -Rachael Denhollander on Michigan State's new leadership as she and other survivors revive a 2018 plan to assess the university's culture toward sexual violence today. A lot has changed in seven years, Dan sums it up well here:

Greek swimmer Kristian Gkolomeev outraced the world record in the 50m freestyle last month after weeks of taking PEDs. He and others will compete in the first annual Enhanced Games next May in Las Vegas. More on what the game will look like: espn.com/olympics/story…

Big congrats to Chris Hine on publish day for his new biography of Anthony Edwards! Chris is an awesome storyteller and has been covering Ant throughout his pro career. Just ordered my copy, can't wait to dig in. harpercollins.com/products/ant-c…

Charlie Baker on the settlement: “a new beginning for Division I student-athletes and for the NCAA.”

Sedona Prince, co-lead plaintiff in the House case who just finished her college career, said she's been celebrating tonight. "It seemed like this crazy idea of what college athletics could be like and should be like ...It’s going to change millions of lives for the better."

It's official. Colleges will start paying their players directly in less than a month thanks to a major legal settlement approved last night. Some details on how we got here and the battles that still lay ahead: espn.com/college-sports…

College sports has always been a business, but the House settlement just made it even more of a business. Who gets the money? Will competitive balance shift? Will programs be cut? “You are going to have to be strategic.” For ESPN espn.com/college-sports…

The first appeal to the NCAA House settlement was just filed, claiming the deal violates Title IX law. An appeal will not stop payments from schools to their current athletes starting July 1. It will pause back damages payments for a process that will likely take many months.

And if you really want to get into the weeds on the employment questions raised with these new contracts, we wrote about them in much more detail a few months ago: espn.com/college-sports…

Nearly half of a billion dollars. Yet many USOPC and college sports officials would have you believe that if college football players don't cover the cost of America's athlete development pipeline the country's Olympic prowess will collapse.

Bryan Seeley became one of the most influential leaders for the future of college sports this month. Pete Thamel and I spoke to Seeley during his first day on the job to learn how he views his new role as the CEO of the College Sports Commission: espn.com/college-footba…