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Kupchella releases few details on Buning leave

GRAND FORKS N.D. Surveys such as the one done in the University of North Dakota athletic department before Athletic Director Tom Buning took a four-week leave of absence are routine, UND President Charles Kupchella says.

Chowan to join CIAA football conference in 2008

MURFREESBORO N.C. Chowan will join the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association as a football-only member beginning next season, school and league officials said Monday.

Move to ACC showcases Boston College to southerners

BOSTON Boston College’s decision to shift its sports teams to the Atlantic Coast Conference two years ago has led to a spike in applications from the southern states that dominate the league.

Texas Tech defensive coordinator steps down

LUBBOCK Texas Texas Tech defensive coordinator Lyle Setencich stepped down Sunday, citing personal reasons in a move that came a day after the Red Raiders lost to Oklahoma State 49-45.

Dover police: suspect in custody in Delaware State University shooting

An 18-year-old man who grew up in an upper middle class neighborhood in East Orange, N.J. was charged Monday in the shooting of two Delaware State University students.

Leadership & Policy

Durango college trustees slams scheduling of game against Montana

DURANGO Colo. A Fort Lewis College trustee has accused the athletic department of “pigskin prostitution” for scheduling a game against the much larger University of Montana, resulting in a 49-0 drubbing after a 17-hour bus ride.

Iowa universities market, benefit from school credit cards

DES MOINES Iowa Iowa’s two biggest public universities are helping to market credit cards to their students, an arrangement that generates millions of dollars for the schools’ alumni organizations.

NCAA championship teams honored in White House ceremony

WASHINGTON The men and women’s rifle team from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks has earned the distinction of traveling the farthest for a White House ceremony Friday honoring NCAA championship teams.

Tulane player suspended from team, school after stabbing arrest

NEW ORLEANS Police on Friday arrested a Tulane University football player in the Bourbon Street stabbing that left five people hurt last weekend.

University of North Dakota athletic director says school lacks resources for transition

GRAND FORKS N.D. University of North Dakota athletic director Tom Buning says he and his staff are overworked and don’t have enough money to make a proper transition to the NCAA Division I.

Leadership & Policy

Ohio State gives basketball coach Thad Matta $480,000 raise and adds a year to his contract

COLUMBUS Ohio Ohio State gave men’s basketball coach Thad Matta a raise of almost $500,000, boosting his salary to just under $2.5 million a year, and added a year to his contract to extend it through the 2016 season.

Appeals court rules Ohio State must pay O’Brien $2.4 million

COLUMBUS Ohio Ohio State must pay former men’s basketball coach Jim O’Brien more than $2.4 million for his wrongful firing in 2004, an appeals court ordered Thursday.

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