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Section: Sports

UAPB loses in final minute

Arkansas-Pine Bluff’s defense fell one play short.

September 16, 2007

Alabama A&M posts 45-14 win over MVSU, first 3-0 start since ’66

HUNTSVILLE Ala. Kelcy Luke threw for 276 yards and three touchdowns Saturday as Alabama A&M defeated Mississippi Valley State University 45-14.

September 16, 2007

A Conversation With Sam Puryear, Assistant Head Coach, Stanford University Men’s Golf

In just his second season at Stanford University, Sam Puryear helped coach the men’s golf team to capture the 2007 NCAA National Championship — a feat that they last accomplished 13 years ago when Tiger Woods was on their team.

September 5, 2007

A Conversation with Joyce Wong

Dr. Joyce Wong has been director of athletics at Eastern Connecticut State University since 1999, overseeing Division III intercollegiate sport programs such as basketball, soccer, baseball, swimming and track and field.

August 22, 2007

NCAA Committee Addresses the Issue of Pregnancy in Student-Athletes

In July, the NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics reviewed concerns about how female student-athletes are being treated if they become pregnant.

August 22, 2007

Professional Appointments

Dr. Mildred García has been named president of California State University-Domínguez Hills. She was most recently president of Berkeley College. García earned a bachelor’s from Bernard M. Baruch College, a master’s from New York University and a master’s and doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University. Gayle Colston Barge has been appointed assistant vice chancellor […]

August 22, 2007

NCAA Taking Academic Reform Seriously

SOUTH BEND, Ind. University presidents will show how serious they are about academic reform when they decide whether the NCAA should continue to sanction schools that don’t meet classroom performance standards, NCAA President Myles Brand said Monday.

August 20, 2007

Kansas women’s team goes 3-1 on Australian exhibition trip

LAWRENCE Kan. The 400-foot climb to the top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge didn’t bother Danielle McCray all that much.

August 15, 2007

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