Sat, Mar 03, 2012
After a costly scandal, Binghamton is trying to rebuild. The New York Times examines what has taken place at BU over the last few years as the school enjoyed basketball success and then watched it unravel due to academic scandal.
Fri, Mar 02, 2012
The Minneapolis Star Tribune takes a look at the glass ceiling that exists for female athletic directors at Division I programs.
Fri, Mar 02, 2012
University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler has named a 21-member search advisory committee to help choose the school's next athletic director and also named Parker Executive Search to lead the hunt for a new athletic director. This committee will report to another committee made up of four individuals that will help screen the semifinalists. A larger search committee would have been formed, but there was not a big enough conference room on campus.
Thu, Mar 01, 2012
Sports Illustrated writes about UCLA's basketball program and its problems over the last few years. The article alleges that the performance problems result from a significant lack of discipline and control within the program.
Wed, Feb 29, 2012
George Mason athletic director Tom O’Connor has apologized to Virginia Commonwealth for the Patriots entering the court when the Rams were honoring senior Bradford Burgess before Saturday’s game.
Wed, Feb 29, 2012
A prominent Huskers booster took out a full page ad in Sunday's Omaha World-Herald in defense of basketball coach Doc Sadler. The ad points out all of the structural and support reasons why Nebraska has not been able to achieve success in basketball.
Tue, Feb 28, 2012
The University of North Carolina's new AD, Bubba Cunningham, is among those who are in favor of an expanded field for the NCAA basketball tournament, the Charlotte Observer reported. If college athletics is moving towards payment for players, we may as well expand March Madness to mirror the NBA where more than half of the teams get in.
Mon, Feb 27, 2012
Since 2009 veteran AD Jim Livengood has worked tirelessly to make UNLV athletics better, all the while having to make serious budget cuts. His contract is up in December, but it will likely be extended.
Mon, Feb 27, 2012
Former Big East Commissioner Mike Tranghese points the finger squarely at the presidents for the mess that has become college sports. He correctly recalls that the presidents took over college sports from athletic directors and commissioners in the late 1980's and 1990's, so they are the ones responsible for the unseemly pursuit of every possible dollar in the conference realignment shuffle.
Mon, Feb 27, 2012
Ian McCaw, athletic director: “Someone tapped me on the shoulder at a national meeting and said, You have the No. 1 athletic department in the country right now.”
Sat, Feb 25, 2012
It's one of the most exciting plays in football, but also the most dangerous. The NCAA has decided to move kickoffs from the 30- to the 35-yard line next season. Touchbacks will now come out to the 25-yard line, instead of the twenty.
Fri, Feb 24, 2012
After an embarrasing fall from grace while at Iowa State, hoops Coach Larry Eustachy has rebuilt his personal and professional life at Southern Miss.
Thu, Feb 23, 2012
Maryland told quarterback Danny O'Brien, offensive lineman Max Garcia and linebacker Mario Rowson that they are free after all to transfer anywhere they want including Vanderbilt. Maryland said the three players were being given “a full release from the football program with no transfer restrictions.”
Wed, Feb 22, 2012
An article in the Charlotte Observer reported that N.C. State AD Debbie Yow won the affection of Wolfpack fans everywhere by honoring former hoops greats who were ejected by an official from a game earlier in the week.
Wed, Feb 22, 2012
The conference commissioners are determined to have the championship game played earlier in January and stop playing major bowls in the middle of the week after New Year’s Day.
Tue, Feb 21, 2012
Colleges are free to offer multi-year scholarships to athletes after a repeal effort within the NCAA narrowly fell short. Opponents needed 207 of 330 votes by schools and conferences to overturn the measure approved by the association's Division I board of directors last October. They received 205 votes.
Mon, Feb 20, 2012
After unsuccessful attempts to schedule Maryland’s men’s basketball against Georgetown, Terrapins Athletic Director Kevin Anderson has decided against scheduling games against the Hoyas in all sports until the Hoya's are willing to play the Terps in hoops.
Mon, Feb 20, 2012
Tulane President Scott Cowen believes that there is a very good chance that the BCS will be making a change that moves it toward a playoff option. BCS members meet this week to discuss the possible change.
Sat, Feb 18, 2012
The University of North Carolina released “A statement of principles for athletics at UNC,” the result of months of informal collaboration among faculty members on the Chapel Hill campus. Institutional openness, educational responsibility and mission consistency are among the themes stressed by the report.
Fri, Feb 17, 2012
Washington College Coach Rob Nugent asked Gettysburg to reinsert senior guard Cory Weissman at the end of a Washington loss so they could foul him and give him an opportunity to score. Weissman hit the second of his two foul shots. He had suffered a stroke after his freshman year and worked diligently on his physical recovery over the years. The crowd erupted when he made the foul shot.
Fri, Feb 17, 2012
Once the Athletics Association Board of Directors officially dissolves on June 30, the duty of overseeing UK athletics will pass to a new panel made up of five members of the school's Board of Trustees and as many as three non-voting "community advisory" people. The new structure, which mirrors how UK administers its hospital, made a separate athletics association "redundant."
Wed, Feb 15, 2012
Four Texas Christian University football players were among 17 students who were arrested Wednesday in a campus drug bust, the Associated Press reported.
Wed, Feb 15, 2012
The Atlantic takes a look at high profile coaches who simply cannot let go and retire. Joe Paterno and Jim Calhoun are profiled.