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Sports: Page 126

Michigan State Law Professors Say Div. I College Athletes Qualify as ‘Employees’

The way football and basketball players in Division I programs juggle athletics and school undermines the NCAA’s contention they are student-athletes, contend law professors Robert and Amy McCormick.

Amy and Robert McCormick

California Firm Ordered To Pay Damages over HBCU Football Broadcasting Contract Dispute

A sports broadcast promotion company and its owner must pay HBCU Pro Football about $3.5 million for intentional misrepresentation and breach of contract, a federal judge in Baltimore has ruled.

HBCU football game

Celebrated New York City Athlete Fatally Stabbed Hours After High School Graduation

An argument over a celebratory high school graduation gift cost Isayah Muller his life: The 19-year-old was fatally stabbed during a fight between his father and two parking attendants thought to have stolen expensive cologne from the backseat of the family’s car.

Friends Remember North Carolina State Hero Lorenzo Charles

Lorenzo Charles was remembered Tuesday for his imposing presence on the court and his gentle demeanor away from it, one day after the hero of the Wolfpack’s most recent championship team was killed in a bus wreck.

Lorenzo Charles

2011 Arthur Ashe Jr. Scholar Commits to Wisconsin for Fourth Year of College Football

Former North Carolina State quarterback Russell Wilson is headed to the University of Wisconsin, potentially solving one of the biggest hurdles standing between the Badgers and a Big Ten title.

Ohio State Trustees To Review Athletic Program

Ohio State University trustees will spend up to six weeks reviewing the athletic program after the scandal that led to the suspension of five players and the forced resignation of football coach Jim Tressel.

National Urban League, Brady Center Team Up with Plaxico Burress to Prevent Gun Violence

The former wide receiver for the New York Giants will help educate and send an anti-violence message particularly among young people.

Plaxico Burress

NCAA Forum Aims to Increase Minority Head Coaches

Seven African-American coaches, including three former NFL players, participated Friday in The Champion Forum, the top tier of the NCAA’s coaching academy, during a weeklong convention of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics.

No More National Anthem at Pacifist Indiana College

A small Christian college with ties to the Mennonite Church has decided to stop playing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at sporting events after some complained the song’s images of war undermined the school’s pacifist message.

President Jim Brenneman

NCAA President Mark Emmert: Increased Emphasis on Student-Athlete Academic Performance Due in Part to Reforms

There’s a greater emphasis on the performance of student-athletes in the classroom—thanks in part to academic reforms of the National Collegiate Athletic Association over the past decade, NCAA president Mark Emmert told a national group of academic advisors on Saturday.

Perspective: While Spurrier Plan To Pay Players is Self-Serving, It Opens Door to More Dialogue

Stop pretending college football is anything but the big-time business it really is and start paying the employees whose hard work generate the revenue to begin with, a sports columnist writes.

Leadership & Policy

Saint Paul’s Athletes Face School With No Sports

More than 250 student athletes at St. Paul’s College are left with a tough decision — stay at the historically Black Virginia college and give up their sport or transfer in hopes of finding a new team and a new academic home.

St. Paul’s College athletes

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