NIL, 'Booster Banks' and Recruiting Wars: For Some, It Doesn't Add Up
Less than a year into the NIL Era, officials say the college sports landscape is dramatically shifting back into the booster-driven world that plagued it decades ago.
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Less than a year into the NIL Era, officials say the college sports landscape is dramatically shifting back into the booster-driven world that plagued it decades ago.
For years, the tiny suburb of Linndale on Cleveland’s southwest side was known to most people for one thing: speeding tickets on the short stretch of I-71 that passes through it. Nowadays, Linndale has a different claim to fame. It's home Cuyahoga County's largest concentration, by percentage, of Hispanic and Latinx people.
Apr 30, 2021 Andy Ruiz was broken. It was last spring, months after his lopsided decision defeat to Anthony Joshua. Ruiz, a doughy 283 pounds for his rematch with Joshua, now weighed more than 300. His confidence was gone. His spirit was shaken. “I felt empty inside,” Ruiz says. One night, Ruiz dropped to his knees. He had already apologized to his friends and family for blowing his chance to defend the heavyweight titles he took off Joshua. Now he needed to speak to God. “I was so depressed, so sad, and I started praying,” says Ruiz. “And I was like, ‘Man, God, I'm sorry for not...