NIL (Name, Image, Likeness)

EA Sports College Football 25 released on Friday as schools across the country threw parties, tournaments and fan events with their teams to celebrate. Florida gave The Associated Press a behind-the-scenes look this week at teammates squaring off on a big screen during the team’s annual photo shoot.

Florida joins a list of at least 30 other states that allow high schoolers to engage in NIL deals.

Sixteen-year-old international master Bach Ngo and his teammates Abhiram Pothuri and Jolie Huang received a $2,500 check from College Hunks, a national furniture moving company.

The FHSAA approved the change in June to allow compensation for use of athletes’ names, images and likenesses.

This week on The Florida Roundup, we discuss the Florida High School Athletic Association’s approval of NIL deals, a state teacher apprentice program, meteorologists incorporating climate change into forecasts, scientists looking to combat citrus greening, a first for Florida’s space coast, new hurricane forecasting and spelling bee news.

The Florida High School Athletic Association is slated Tuesday to consider allowing student athletes to earn money through endorsement deals under what is known as a name, image and likeness, or NIL, policy.

The proposed legal settlement by the NCAA and its Power Five conferences would allow schools to directly pay athletes. But questions remain, including whether men and women will be paid equally.

The monumental decision sets the stage for a groundbreaking revenue-sharing model that could start directing millions of dollars directly to athletes as soon as the 2025 fall semester.

Weatherford Capital is one of two firms creating a platform to help athletic departments find funding with college sports on the verge of sweeping change that could have long-term financial implications.

Jaden Rashada’s lawsuit against Florida head football coach Billy Napier and others for breach of contract has the potential to kickstart similar cases.

The Florida High School Athletic Association held a discussion about a potential change to the organization’s bylaws that would allow student-athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness under what is commonly known as an NIL policy.

Florida could follow 33 other states, as well as the District of Columbia, to allow high school athletes to make name, image and likeness (or NIL) money through sponsorship deals.