{"id":1927334,"date":"2026-08-07T17:14:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1927334"},"modified":"2026-08-10T13:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:44:06","slug":"unc-adds-football-basketball-players-after-athletes-win-legal-challenges-to-ncaa-eligibility-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1927334","title":{"rendered":"UNC adds football, basketball players after athletes win legal challenges to NCAA eligibility rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal court judge in Colorado and several state-level rulings have given some athletes an additional year of eligibility weeks before football season begins. The NCAA is appealing the decisions and more lawsuits are being filed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/sports\/ncaa-north-carolina-duke-ncstate-fifth-year-of-eligibility-court-rulings-ncaa-august-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal court judge in Colorado and several state-level rulings have given some athletes an additional year of eligibility weeks before football season begins. The NCAA&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1927335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1927334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1927334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1927336,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927334\/revisions\/1927336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1927335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1927334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1927334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1927334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}