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Section: Sports

NCAA To Provide Former Student-athletes With Benefits

The NCAA will provide former college football and basketball players with aid for future educational expenses, career development costs and other benefits as part of a lawsuit settlement it reached with ex-athletes.

August 7, 2008

WNBA Leads in Sports Diversity Study

As many WNBA teams have women holding partial or full ownership as there are in the NFL and more than in any other American pro sport.

July 29, 2008

World’s First J-School Celebrates 100 Years

The world’s first J-school, the University of Missouri-Columbia’s School of Journalism, will celebrate its centennial anniversary Sept. 10-12 by officially opening the doors of the Reynolds Journalism Institute, a think tank where scholars will study journalism of the 21st century. Founding Dean Walter Williams welcomed the school’s first class of students on Sept. 14, 1908, […]

July 23, 2008

University of Louisiana at Lafayette Appeals Verdict in Football Coach’s Firing

The University of Louisiana at Lafayette is appealing a jury decision that the university must pay fired football coach Jerry Baldwin $2 million in damages after the panel determined race was among the reasons for his 2001 dismissal.

July 13, 2008

Rodriguez agrees to settle, pay WVU $4 million

Former West Virginia football coach Rich Rodriguez agreed to pay a $4 million buyout clause and settle a lawsuit that the university filed after he broke his contract in December.

July 8, 2008

Faculty & Staff

A Quick Rebound? Not So Fast

In the post-Hurricane Katrina era, the future remains uncertain for New Orleans college athletics.

June 25, 2008

Faculty & Staff

Collegiate Athletics in New Orleans Struggle to Rebound Post-Hurricane Katrina

Eddie Francis bursts out laughing when he recounts his unexpected coaching debut for Southern University at New Orleans earlier this semester.

June 24, 2008

Sexton Named ASWA Junior College Athlete of the Year

Jennifer Sexton never thought of herself as a dominant pitcher while in high school.

June 4, 2008

Despite Record Female Participation in Athletics, Percentage of Women Coaches Declines

Coaching women’s sports has become a man’s world.

June 2, 2008

Arthur Ashe Jr. 2008 Finalists

Cliff Hammonds, who led Clemson University to its best basketball season in years, has also impressed his architecture classmates and professors — so much so that they recently created a Citation for Excellence for the senior’s ability to squeeze in basketball practice between drafting architecture models throughout his four-year college career. “They actually made up […]

May 28, 2008

Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars 2008

Diverse: Issues In Higher Education established the Sports Scholars Awards to honor undergraduate students of color who have made achieving both academically and athletically a winning combination.

May 28, 2008

Saluting an All-time Great

This year’s annual tribute to student-athletes takes on special meaning as it is the 15th anniversary of the death of tennis great Arthur Ashe Jr. for whom the award is named.

May 28, 2008

For the Love Of the Game

Momei Qu is leading the way in academics and athletics, shining in each arena.

May 28, 2008

Tried, Tested, Yet Undeterred

After overturned prison sentence, Marcus Dixon blazes a stellar record of academic and athletic achievement at Hampton University.

May 28, 2008

IMPACT PLAYERS

Golf grew in popularity in Seoul after it held the 1988 Olympics, and now U.S. college coaches are witnessing the emergence and competitiveness of Korean golfers.

May 28, 2008

CORRELATING DIVERSITY SUCCESS WITH ACADEMIC SUCCESS

Texas A&M, NCAA partnership recognizes universities that best champion diversity.

May 28, 2008

NC A&T State Football Player Dies

North Carolina A&T State University says a football player has died from complications of heat illness.

May 27, 2008

Former NDSCS Athlete Being Deported

A former North Dakota State College of Science basketball player from Algeria who pleaded guilty to racking up thousands of dollars in international phone bills on a school-issued calling card now faces deportation.

May 14, 2008