The WWE and Endeavor, the parent company of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, announced a major deal to merge the businesses. Cheddar News reporter Michelle Castillo reported on the staggering $21.4 billion merger and the implications it will have going forward. "Under the deal's terms, Endeavor will have a 51 [percent] majority stake in the company and the WWE will own the remaining 49 percent," she said.
NCAA President Charlie Baker announced Tuesday that he wants the organization to create a new tier of Division I athletics where schools with the most resources can offer unlimited educational benefits, enter into name, image and likeness partnerships with athletes and directly pay them through a trust fund.
A men’s World Cup super-G was called off Sunday due to strong wind as weather led to the cancellation of all three ski races over the weekend in Beaver Creek, Colorado.
Double-amputee Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius was granted parole Friday, 10 years after shooting his girlfriend through a toilet door at his home in South Africa in a killing that jolted the world.
