{"id":182402,"date":"2025-08-28T12:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/182402\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T12:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:27:10","slug":"players-era-expanding-deal-with-the-linku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/182402\/","title":{"rendered":"Players Era expanding deal with The LinkU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-colleges \">Players Era and The LinkU are set to announce an expansion of their deal that makes the latter the official NIL platform of the Players Era Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s Championships. Exact terms were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-colleges \">The agreement, which is set to be announced on Thursday, also includes the creation of a platform designed to streamline contracts and payments for schools and teams as part of the tournaments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-colleges \">The 2025 Players Era tournaments are set for November 24-27 in Las Vegas and will feature more than $20M in guaranteed sponsor NIL activities for participating teams. This year\u2019s field includes Tennessee, Kansas, St. John\u2019s, Iowa State, Houston, Auburn, Alabama, Gonzaga and Michigan, among others, on the men\u2019s side. Texas, UCLA, Duke and South Carolina will be featured in the women\u2019s bracket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Players Era and The LinkU are set to announce an expansion of their deal that makes the latter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":182403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,2076,1317,1337,1338,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-182402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-basketball","12":"tag-ncaabasketball","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115106391410886166","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}