Today marks 10 years since the United Nations first celebrated October 11th as IDOG. While we celebrate every day, today we’re diving into what this holiday is all about, along with the benefits of (and the barriers to) sports access for girls around the world.

Sports organizations are still feeling the chill of crypto winter. According to a report, Crypto.com’s “marketing meltdown” in recent months has resulted in the digital currency exchange backing out of high-profile deals and owing payments to partners, including the NWSL’s Angel City FC.

The odds are stacked against sportsbooks in the Golden State. In a poll published by the UC Berkeley Institute for Governmental Studies yesterday, eligible voters in California will likely vote against two bills legalizing betting next month.

Another day, another sizable investment in women’s sports. Athletes Unlimited (AU) announced it raised $30 million from new and existing stakeholders on Thursday, a vote of confidence in the organization and in women’s indoor volleyball.

Friday was National Truth and Reconciliation Day in Canada, a day to honor the victims and survivors of Indigenous residential schools. And Monday, October 10th is Indigenous Peoples’ Day in the U.S.

In the second year of NIL, student-athletes are stepping up…for others. As deals put big bucks in players’ pockets, more and more are paying it forward, to teammates and strangers, locally and internationally. The kids are most definitely all right.

Florida State University (FSU) Athletics announced Truist — a long-standing 20-year partner of the school — as their official retail bank on Monday.

Over a year after controversial sports media company Barstool Sports launched its Barstool Athlete network, there’s finally word on what members can expect. Despite the company’s rampant misogyny and bigotry, Barstool attracted 150K college athletes to join its NIL program, and have now developed TwoYay.

Track and field athletes sue UCO, ex–MSU coach’s conviction will not be reinstated and Utah student booked on terrorism charge.

While a few Black universities were founded just prior to the Civil War, the years following the abolishment of slavery saw an HBCU boom in which many of today’s institutions were founded, mostly in the South, including Morehouse College and Alabama State in 1867.

The sports conglomerate announced its Creator Network yesterday, a program that recruits young content creators to whip up sports-centric TikToks geared toward their generation.