June 2011, Cover Stories
NCAA Eyeing Summer Hoops Recruiting Rules
Alan Scher Zagier of the Associated Press reports the NCAA is working to rewrite its men's basketball recruiting rules to try and slim down the July recruiting period, avoiding potentially unsavory influences of AAU coaches, event operators and other hangers-on who may be looking to ride the coattails of the next superstar.
There are more than 230 NCAA-approved events coming up around the country featuring high school stars - and potential recruits - from the Nike Peach Jam in South Carolina to LeBron James' skills academy in his hometown of Akron, Ohio, to any of the five youth tournaments slated for Las Vegas over a single summer weekend. To read more, click here.



