Allowing of student-athletes to profit from their name, image, and likeness (NIL) is changing the college sports landscape, but in what ways?

With another new monthly high readership, July became the 7th straight month of new monthly record page views for the blog.

June had the lowest readership of the year for the blog, but there were still over 20% more page views than in 2021.

It's becoming a regular theme of 2021 that readership to the site breaks monthly records. May was no different.

Can't say why exactly it's happening, but if anything April's readership stats for the blog were even stronger than March's.

Continuing a bit of a surprise pattern here in 2021, the blog's page views in March were far above normal levels.

The new Athletes Unlimited professional league/event got underway over the weekend. What did you think of it?

February isn't even over yet and it's already seen more readership of this blog than in any prior year. January did as well.

I know, I know. You probably would rather put 2020 totally behind you and focus on what we all hope will be a significantly better…

John Cook did a presentation for the 2020 AVCA Virtual Convention where he made his case for a Spring season for women's volleyball.