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Prairie View on Verge of First Winning Season Since 1976

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas Get ready for another shocker that fits right into this crazy year in college football: Prairie View A&M is on the verge of a winning season.

Student Graduation Rate at the University of Arizona Falls Lower

TUCSON Ariz. A new report shows 63 percent of the University of Arizona student-athletes who enrolled in the 2000-01 school year graduated within six years.

Ex-Duquesne Student Pleads Guilty in Basketball Player Shooting Case

PITTSBURGH A former Duquesne University student pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges that she helped her armed friends get into a school dance the night five basketball players were shot and wounded.

Assistant Coach at Center of Indiana U. Recruit Calls Case Resigns

INDIANAPOLIS Indiana assistant Rob Senderoff, the focus of an investigation into improper telephone calls to recruits that already has cost the Hoosiers one basketball scholarship and coach Kelvin Sampson a $500,000 pay raise, resigned Tuesday.

Khayat Says Naming UM Successor Key Part of his Final Years

TUPELO Miss. University of Mississippi Chancellor Robert Khayat said he hopes to use the remaining three years of his contract to help find and orient a successor.

Arkansas State U Drops Indian Nickname

JONESBORO Ark. Now that it is dropping the nickname Indians, Arkansas State is free from some NCAA restrictions.

University of Illinois Allows Chief Illiniwek Images in Homecoming Parade

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Chief Illiniwek may be gone, but images depicting the controversial University of Illinois mascot will stick around at least during homecoming.

Duquesne Basketball Shooter Gets Up to 40 Years

PITTSBURGH The gunman who wounded five Duquesne University basketball players after a school dance last year pleaded guilty Friday and will spend up to 40 years in prison.

University of North Dakota Needs Tribal Approval to Keep Sioux Nickname

GRAND FORKS, N.D. The state Board of Higher Education settled a lawsuit with the NCAA over the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux nickname, giving the school three years to get tribal approval to keep it.

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Division II Chowan moving to Historically Black CIAA

MURFREESBORO, N.C. When tiny Chowan University moved up to Division II a few years ago, it knew it needed the stability that comes with joining a conference.

Report: Judge Was in 1960s Student Group With Cartoon Mascot

GRAND FORKS, N.D. The judge hearing arguments in a lawsuit over the University of North Dakota’s Fighting Sioux nickname belonged to a student group in the 1960s whose members wore a cartoon American Indian mascot on their jackets, The Forum reports in a copyright story.

Textbook Probe at Alabama Includes All Athletes

TUSCALOOSA Ala. The University of Alabama is investigating the distribution of textbooks to athletes on scholarship in all sports after five football players were suspended for violating rules covering free books for course work.

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