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College World Series: Thousands welcome home repeat national champion Beavers

CORVALLIS Ore. A fan hoisted a sign that said it all: Sweet Repeat.

June 25, 2007

UW-Madison athletic administrator dead at 46

MADISON Wis. Services have been scheduled Wednesday for Douglas Beard, a Maine native who became one of the senior administrators of the University of Wisconsin-Madison athletic department.

June 25, 2007

Hard Road to Draft for USC Star Young

LOS ANGELES By all rights, Nick Young wasn’t supposed to be a college basketball star. He flunked out of two high schools. His oldest brother died in a drive-by shooting. Now, the Southern California player is set to be chosen in this week’s NBA draft and earn millions of dollars.

June 24, 2007

Nebraska volleyballer is female college athlete of year

OMAHA Neb. Nebraska’s Sarah Pavan on Monday won the Honda-Broderick Cup as the nation’s female college athlete of the year. The award came six months after she and the Cornhuskers won the national volleyball championship.

June 24, 2007

Barney says CWS enjoyment comes in short bursts

OMAHA Neb. Oregon State players are finding plenty of ways to pass the time away from Rosenblatt Stadium during their trip to the College World Series.

June 24, 2007

Retired Army General takes control of D.C. public schools – Lt. Gen. Julius Becton’s appointment as CEO

As president of Prairie View A&M University, retired Army Lt. Gen. Julius Becton earned respect as a starched-shirt leader who demanded accountability in academic and financial affairs and didn’t mind challenging the status quo to achieve his goals.

June 23, 2007

Sports medicine given new prescription: team work – includes related article on careers in sports medicine – special report: health sciences

Sports medicine used to be the sole responsibility of athletic trainers and team doctors, whose only emphasis was treating injured athletes.

June 23, 2007

Proposed legislation asks athletes to fight domestic violence: NCAA, others worried about stigma associated with sports figures – National Collegiate Athletic Association

Two members of Congress have proposed legislation that calls for a national campaign against domestic violence that would be spearheaded by athletes. But some sports organizations, including the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), believe the legislation unfairly suggests athletes have a propensity to engage in violence against women.

June 23, 2007

Coming back to go forward: like the prodigal son, football’s return welcomed at Benedict – resurrection of Benedict football team

Columbia, S.C. Tiger football opened its second season at Benedict College this fall, continuing a tradition of pep rallies and tailgate parties that were common on the campus twenty-nine years ago.

June 22, 2007

Is the NCAA playing a numbers game? – National Collegiate Athletics Association – appraisal of graduation rates

While the National Collegiate Athletic Association has spent all summer putting a happy face on its annual Division I Graduation-Rates Report, others caution that, to avoid being misleading, the rates need to be put into perspective. Claiming that Division I student athletes who receive athletic scholarships continue to graduate at a higher rate than […]

June 22, 2007

Beck named defensive line coach at MSU

BOZEMAN Mont. Bo Beck, a graduate assistant at Iowa State University, has been named defensive line coach at Montana State, new Bobcat football coach Rob Ash announced Thursday.

June 21, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Museum exhibit sheds historical light on Atlanta University Center

Atlanta Heidi Struve and her father, Larry Struve, had some time on their hands after attending a field hockey match on the campus of Morris Brown College during the Olympic Games in Atlanta. The Reno NV duo spotted an Olympic Arts Festival sign pointing to an exhibit on “The History of the Atlanta University Center” in the college’s Fountain Hall and decided to venture inside.

June 20, 2007

Student-athletes, the World Bank and the United Nations

As I settled in to listen to a panel of four recently graduated student-athletes discuss their views on college athletics, the last thing I expected to hear about was The World Bank, the United Nations and various countries’ GNPs.

June 20, 2007

Rekindling Wilma’s legacy: Tennessee State University struggles to revive Olympic tradition – athlete Wilma Rudolph

It was only fitting that the route for the Atlanta-bound Olympic torch ran right through the heart of the historically Black Tennessee State University (TSU) campus in Nashville. After all, the school has a storied tradition in women’s track and field.

June 20, 2007

The kiddie brigade heads for the NBA – underclassmen’s preference for National Basketball Association over education

A record 37 underclassmen, plus three high school students, made themselves available for the recent National Basketball Association draft, adding to the growing concern of many that more and more young men, particularly Black men, will abandon educational pursuits for hoop dreams.

June 20, 2007

U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Limits on Recruiting High School Athletes

WASHINGTON The Supreme Court said Thursday that athletic associations can enforce limits on recruiting high school athletes without violating coaches’ free speech rights.

June 20, 2007

U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Limits on Recruiting High School Athletes

WASHINGTON The Supreme Court said Thursday that athletic associations can enforce limits on recruiting high school athletes without violating coaches’ free speech rights.

June 20, 2007

Mississippi Valley Athletics Director Leaves for Hampton University.

ITTA BENA Miss. Lonza Hardy Jr., athletics director at Mississippi Valley State University for the past six years, has resigned to take a similar position at Hampton University in southeastern Virginia.

June 19, 2007