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ROSEMONT, Ill. -- The Big Ten Conference adopted a rule to prohibit men's and women's basketball players who left school to play professionally from maintaining their eligibility.
The Big Ten announced the unanimous adoption of a rule deeming players who signed professional contracts with the NBA, G-League or WNBA as ineligible to play for any of the conference's schools.
The rule also covers players who declared for the NBA or WNBA drafts but did not withdraw their names or declare an intent to return to college in the required timeframe.
The conference's announcement comes as waves of student-athletes have filed lawsuits against the NCAA's new eligibility rules allowing five years of competition over a five-year period.
MLB games longer in '26
NEW YORK -- The average time for a nine-inning Major League Baseball game has increased by nearly four minutes this season, reaching 2 hours and 42 minutes.
This change follows the introduction of robot umpires. MLB said Monday that 61 seconds of the increase is due to the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System. This system allows players to appeal umpire decisions to a computer. The average game time had previously decreased to 2:36 in 2024, its lowest since 1984.
There were seven non-shortened games under 2 hours, the fastest being Philadelphia's 1-0 win against Atlanta on Sept. 7 that took 1:51. The average game time passed three hours for the first time in 2016, peaking at 3:10 in 2021.