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The NCAA has eliminated its policy barring college athletes from receiving prize money before enrolling, resolving a legal settlement with tennis student-athletes. The change means players can now compete in college even if they accepted prize money during their pre-collegiate careers, removing a long-standing eligibility barrier that had particularly affected tennis players who competed in professional events for prize money before starting university.

Alta Journal has published a feature exploring the recurring preoccupations of American novelist William T. Vollmann, whose sprawling, risk-taking books have long examined violence, poverty, sex work, imperialism and his own confrontations with danger. The piece revisits his reputation as one of American literature's most uncompromising and prolific figures, tracing how his personal fixations feed his sprawling body of work.