Search | The EDU Ledger

Welcome to The EDU Ledger.com! We’ve moved from Diverse.

Welcome to The EDU Ledger! We’ve moved from Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.

Section: Sports

Dismal ’06 season has Bethune-Cookman going back to basics

DAYTONA BEACH Fla. For much of last season, Bethune-Cookman had the most prolific passing numbers in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference.

August 14, 2007

Ex-ENMU women’s basketball coach dies

PORTALES N.M. Former Eastern New Mexico University women’s basketball coach Dan Buzard died Tuesday of brain cancer. He was 39.

August 14, 2007

Florida A&M tries for glory in the shadow of Florida State

TALLAHASSEE Fla. Rubin Carter has at least one big fan in Tallahassee, someone who believes that he’s the right man to lead Florida A&M back to prominence.

August 14, 2007

Search committee debating nickname impact in presidential search

GRAND FORKS N.D. A committee looking for candidates for the next University of North Dakota president is debating the impact of the school’s Fighting Sioux nickname.

August 14, 2007

The Search Committee Handbook

Regents to consider Nevada coach contract

RENO Nev. State regents are being asked to extend the contract of University of Nevada football coach Chris Ault through June 2012.

August 14, 2007

After winless year, spirits high again at FIU

MIAMI When those preseason magazines previewing the year in college football hit newsstands, many Florida International players rushed to grab a copy.

August 14, 2007

Florida receives $6 million from UF Athletic Association

GAINESVILLE Fla. The University of Florida Athletic Association, which produced national championships in football and basketball, is donating $6 million to the university to support academic programs jeopardized by state budget cuts.

August 14, 2007

Returning Virginia Tech students balance melancholy with hope as fall classes approach

BLACKSBURG Va. Sophomore Dat Hoang was eager to return to Virginia Tech, but moving back Wednesday also brought back memories of the friend he lost in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

August 14, 2007

Southern University, other colleges replace habitats for live mascots

For more than three decades, the campus of Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., was home to thousands of students, a successful football program and one live jaguar in a cramped pen.

August 14, 2007

New Mexico State football team will wear pink for breast cancer research

LAS CRUCES N.M. To most fans, college football is a black-and-blue sport. At New Mexico State, it’s time to think pink.

August 14, 2007

Legal trouble with Rutgers player only beginning for Imus

NEW YORK On the same day Don Imus settled a lawsuit with CBS Radio after being fired for making sexist and racist comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball team, his legal troubles with one of the players began.

August 14, 2007

Pro or not pro? That’s the question among student athletes

NAKHON NAYOK Thailand The clink of a putter and the applause that followed at the 18th hole cut through a symphony of crickets in the dim light of dusk.

August 14, 2007

Cavaliers add assistant coach John Kuester

CLEVELAND John Kuester joined Mike Brown’s coaching staff with the Cleveland Cavaliers as an assistant, team officials said Tuesday.

August 14, 2007

Rutgers student files lawsuit against Imus, CBS, MSNBC

NEW YORK A member of the Rutgers women’s basketball team sued Don Imus and CBS on Tuesday, claiming the radio personality’s sexist and racist comments about the team damaged her reputation.

August 14, 2007

Kentucky lawmakers object to regulation on athletic eligibility

FRANKFORT Ky. A legislative panel objected to a regulation on Tuesday that requires student athletes who transfer from a public to a private high school or vice versa to sit out for a year.

August 13, 2007

NCAA alters College World Series schedule

OMAHA Neb. The College World Series will start on a Saturday in 2008, breaking its tradition of opening on a Friday, the NCAA Division I baseball committee announced Tuesday.

August 13, 2007

Arkansas appears before NCAA board over track violations

LITTLE ROCK The University of Arkansas has appeared before the NCAA infractions committee to answer allegations levied against its storied track and field program after a former assistant coach was convicted last year of embezzlement, the university said Tuesday.

August 13, 2007

Defending ACC champ Wake Forest building on 2006 success

WINSTON-SALEM N.C. Saws buzzed and drills rattled at Wake Forest on Tuesday as work continued on the glitzy new Deacon Tower at Groves Stadium.

August 13, 2007