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  2. Allocation money - Wikipedia

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    In Major League Soccer (MLS) and the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), two of the top-tier professional soccer leagues in the United States, allocation money represents an amount of money that teams can use to sign players or allocate to their salaries in order to remain compliant with the leagues' salary caps.

  3. Student athlete compensation - Wikipedia

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    Due to the increasing popularity of college sports because of television and media coverage, some players on college sports teams are receiving compensation from sources other than the NCAA. [32] For instance, CBS paid around $800 million for broadcasting rights to a three-week 2014 men's basketball tournament. [32]

  4. College athletics in the United States - Wikipedia

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    As well, there must be two team sports for each gender, and each gender must have a team in each of the three season (i. e., Fall, Winter, Spring). Excluding basketball and football, teams must play 100% of their minimum number of games against Division 1 opponents, and 50% of games above the minimum number must be played against Division I teams.

  5. Sports At Any Cost - The Huffington Post

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    “There’s no one to put the brakes on them,” says Joel Maxcy, a Drexel University economist who studies college sports. “There’s no one to say, ‘No, this is not a sound investment.’” A Hail Mary. Georgia State, a commuter college located in a largely vacant stretch of downtown Atlanta, had long resisted a move into big-time ...

  6. Third place playoff - Wikipedia

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    The Rugby World Cup used to give automatic qualification to all teams in the top three of the ongoing tournament to the one that would follow it four years later thus making the third place playoff game important, but this was later scrapped after the 1999 edition of the tournament allowing teams outside the top three to automatically qualify depending on their IRB co-efficient in the rankings.

  7. Draft (sports) - Wikipedia

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    The MLS SuperDraft happens every January. During the draft the teams from the league will pick up to three players each from colleges across the United States. Only players from the American college sports system (e.g., the NCAA and the NAIA) are eligible to be drafted. Canadian U Sports men's soccer players are not included.

  8. Players paid thousands for a new chance at college football ...

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    In postgrad football, teams of typically 20 to 30 athletes spend four or five months living in motels or temporary housing, practicing in public parks and playing games mostly against one another ...

  9. List of NCAA Division I women's soccer First-Team All-America ...

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    Throughout its history, the NSCAA All-America teams have not necessarily included exactly eleven players, nor has there been consistency with regards to the positions picked or number of players in each position. The selection was also open to Division II and Division III players until 1988 when it became exclusively for Division I players.