Janelle Minor

The price of perfection: How NIL is shaping the mental health of student athletes

“If you let the expectations eat you up, then you’re kind of toast from the beginning,” Mason Nichols said. As a senior pitcher for the Ole Miss Baseball team, an honors student and a biology major, Mason Nichols understands high expectations. However, with changes in the name, image and likeness (NIL) rules, those expectations have […]

Beyond Power Four: The NIL Journey for HBCU Athletes

  When Serdarion Locke took on the role of athletic compliance director at Jackson State University (JSU), he quickly realized that the world of name, image and likeness (NIL) was not the same outside the Power Four institutions. “The opportunities in general regarding NIL look different for our HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) student-athletes,” […]

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