LUBBOCK, Texas -- Last July, pitcher NiJaree Canady shook college sports when she announced her transfer to Texas Tech and landed the richest softball NIL deal ever. The reigning USA Softball ...

NiJaree Canady is good enough to carry a team to the Women's College World Series. Just ask Stanford softball. The right-handed junior pitcher helped guide the Cardinal to the WCWS in each of her first two collegiate seasons in 2023 and 2024. However ...

NiJaree Canady’s transfer from Stanford landed her a seven-figure payday and has Texas Tech in an NCAA softball super regional. But lucrative deals like hers could soon be doomed.

Facing NiJaree Canady for the fourth time in the last two seasons, Mississippi State forced Texas Tech’s superstar ace into by far her worst start of the year in terms