NCAA | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 05/10/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Collegiate_Athletic_Association


00:02:12 1 History
00:02:21 1.1 Formation and early years
00:05:42 1.2 1970s–present
00:10:21 1.3 Notable Court Cases
00:15:45 2 Headquarters
00:19:18 3 Structure
00:20:44 3.1 Presidents of the NCAA
00:21:45 3.2 Division history
00:21:54 4 Player eligibility
00:24:30 5 NCAA sponsored sports
00:26:50 5.1 Men's programs
00:28:06 5.2 Women's programs
00:28:45 5.3 Emerging Sports for Women
00:29:46 6 Sports added and dropped
00:30:52 6.1 Men's sports
00:31:01 6.2 Women's sports
00:33:17 7 Championships
00:34:47 7.1 Trophies
00:35:10 7.2 Football Bowl Subdivision
00:35:37 8 Conferences
00:35:54 8.1 Division I
00:36:24 8.1.1 Division I FCS football-only conferences
00:36:32 8.1.2 Division I hockey-only conferences
00:36:41 8.2 Division II
00:37:15 8.3 Division III
00:38:27 8.3.1 Division III football-only conferences
00:40:58 8.3.2 Other Division III single-sport conferences
00:41:08 9 Media
00:41:47 10 Office of Inclusion
00:43:11 10.1 Inclusion and Diversity Campaign
00:44:33 10.1.1 NCAA Inclusion Statement
00:49:25 10.1.2 Gender Equity and Title IX
00:50:24 10.1.3 LGBTQ
00:51:02 10.1.4 Race and Ethnicity
00:51:42 10.1.5 Student-Athletes with Disabilities
00:54:38 10.1.6 International Student-Athletes
00:59:35 11 College team name changes
00:59:51 12 Rules violations
01:01:16 13 Sponsors
01:02:25 14 Finances
01:07:39 14.1 NCAA expenditures
01:08:52 14.1.1 Expenses by category
01:11:26 14.2 Player compensation proposals
01:11:50 15 Individual awards
01:12:44 16 Other collegiate athletic organizations
01:13:21 16.1 In the United States
01:13:40 16.2 Foreign equivalents
01:13:49 16.3 International governing body
01:14:02 17 See also
01:15:03 18 Notes and references



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The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletes from 1,268 North American institutions and conferences. It also organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada, and helps more than 480,000 college student-athletes who compete annually in college sports. The organization is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.
In its 2016–17 fiscal year the NCAA took in $1.06 billion in revenue, over 82% of which was generated by the Division I Men's Basketball Tournament.
In August 1973, the current three-division system of Division I, Division II, and Division III was adopted by the NCAA membership in a special convention. Under NCAA rules, Division I and Division II schools can offer scholarships to athletes for playing a sport. Division III schools may not offer any athletic scholarships. Generally, larger schools compete in Division I and smaller schools in II and III. Division I football was further divided into I-A and I-AA in 1978. Subsequently, the term "Division I-AAA" was briefly added to delineate Division I schools which do not field a football program at all, but that term is no longer officially used by the NCAA. In 2006, Divisions I-A and I-AA were respectively renamed the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) and Football Championship Subdivision (FCS).
Controversially, the NCAA severely caps the benefits that collegiate athletes can receive from their schools. There is a consensus among economists that these caps for men's basketball and football players benefit the athletes' schools (through rent-seeking) at the expense of athletes.