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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Leadership & Policy

Eastern Illinois fires athletic director

CHAMPAIGN Ill. Eastern Illinois University fired Athletic Director Rich McDuffie two weeks after saying it found no evidence to support a sexual harassment claim made against him.

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