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This day in sports history August 1

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Aug. 1, 2024: NCAA post-eligibility insurance coverage goes into effect for all student-athletes, and a series of Division I core guarantees that deliver increased benefits to college athletes goes into effect. The core guarantees include expanded health care coverage; increased mental health support; academic guarantees; and name, image and likeness resources.

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Summer 2024: More than 1,300 current, former and incoming NCAA athletes compete for 125 countries in the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics in Paris. Fourteen Olympic teams are made up entirely of athletes with NCAA ties.

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August 2018: The NCAA Board of Governors and Division I Board of Directors adopt a series of changes in response to the Commission on College Basketball recommendations. Changes include adding independent members to the Board of Governors, providing college basketball players more flexibility to decide their futures, making the investigations and infractions process more efficient, and setting stronger penalties for those who break the rules.

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Aug. 1, 1975: The NCAA initiates a marketing program through an agreement with Descente Ltd. to use the NCAA mark in marketing sportswear and accessories in Japan.

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