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Hard Road to Draft for USC Star Young
LOS ANGELES By all rights, Nick Young wasn’t supposed to be a college basketball star. He flunked out of two high schools. His oldest brother died in a drive-by shooting. Now, the Southern California player is set to be chosen in this week’s NBA draft and earn millions of dollars.
Sports
Nebraska volleyballer is female college athlete of year
OMAHA Neb. Nebraska’s Sarah Pavan on Monday won the Honda-Broderick Cup as the nation’s female college athlete of the year. The award came six months after she and the Cornhuskers won the national volleyball championship.
Sports
Barney says CWS enjoyment comes in short bursts
OMAHA Neb. Oregon State players are finding plenty of ways to pass the time away from Rosenblatt Stadium during their trip to the College World Series.
Students
Retired Army General takes control of D.C. public schools – Lt. Gen. Julius Becton’s appointment as CEO
As president of Prairie View A&M University, retired Army Lt. Gen. Julius Becton earned respect as a starched-shirt leader who demanded accountability in academic and financial affairs and didn’t mind challenging the status quo to achieve his goals.
Sports
Sports medicine given new prescription: team work – includes related article on careers in sports medicine – special report: health sciences
Sports medicine used to be the sole responsibility of athletic trainers and team doctors, whose only emphasis was treating injured athletes.
Sports
Proposed legislation asks athletes to fight domestic violence: NCAA, others worried about stigma associated with sports figures – National Collegiate Athletic Association
Two members of Congress have proposed legislation that calls for a national campaign against domestic violence that would be spearheaded by athletes. But some sports organizations, including the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), believe the legislation unfairly suggests athletes have a propensity to engage in violence against women.
Sports
Coming back to go forward: like the prodigal son, football’s return welcomed at Benedict – resurrection of Benedict football team
Columbia, S.C. Tiger football opened its second season at Benedict College this fall, continuing a tradition of pep rallies and tailgate parties that were common on the campus twenty-nine years ago.
Students
Is the NCAA playing a numbers game? – National Collegiate Athletics Association – appraisal of graduation rates
While the National Collegiate Athletic Association has spent all summer putting a happy face on its annual Division I Graduation-Rates Report, others caution that, to avoid being misleading, the rates need to be put into perspective.  Claiming that Division I student athletes who receive athletic scholarships continue to graduate at a higher rate than […]
Sports
Beck named defensive line coach at MSU
BOZEMAN Mont. Bo Beck, a graduate assistant at Iowa State University, has been named defensive line coach at Montana State, new Bobcat football coach Rob Ash announced Thursday.
Leadership & Policy
Museum exhibit sheds historical light on Atlanta University Center
Atlanta Heidi Struve and her father, Larry Struve, had some time on their hands after attending a field hockey match on the campus of Morris Brown College during the Olympic Games in Atlanta. The Reno NV duo spotted an Olympic Arts Festival sign pointing to an exhibit on “The History of the Atlanta University Center” in the college’s Fountain Hall and decided to venture inside.
Sports
Student-athletes, the World Bank and the United Nations
As I settled in to listen to a panel of four recently graduated student-athletes discuss their views on college athletics, the last thing I expected to hear about was The World Bank, the United Nations and various countries’ GNPs.
Sports
Rekindling Wilma’s legacy: Tennessee State University struggles to revive Olympic tradition – athlete Wilma Rudolph
It was only fitting that the route for the Atlanta-bound Olympic torch ran right through the heart of the historically Black Tennessee State University (TSU) campus in Nashville. After all, the school has a storied tradition in women’s track and field.
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