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NCAA president "confident" in sanctions against Penn State
Nittany LinesNCAA President Mark Emmert said in a radio interview Monday that he remains confident in the Executive Committe's decision to sanction Penn State, adding that those penalties will hold unless "a whole new set of facts" emerges. (Photo courtesy Getty...... -
Perhaps Big East refugees should seek corporate sponsor for new name
What's in a name? For the schools of the Catholic 7 — Georgetown, St. John's, Villanova, Seton Hall, Providence, Marquette and DePaul — it's everything. With no maiden name to fall back on, the Catholic 7 members were forced to do the next...
Tags: Dave Matthews Band (music group), Providence Friars, UCF Knights, Memphis Tigers, College Baseball
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Bill O'Brien says perseverance key to Penn State's success
Bill O'Brien remembers the moment clearly. It was July 23, 2012 — five months after he was hired — and the 43-year-old O'Brien was sitting in his office watching the television. There on the screen was NCAA president Mark Emmert, somber...
Tags: Joe Paterno, Football, Michigan Wolverines, UCF Knights, George O'Leary
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NCAA sees bumps in the road, but schools pay for the damage
Come to find out, the creators of the dreaded "lack of institutional control" have been throwing stones from inside their own glass house. The NCAA, short for the National Collegiate Athletic Assn., is now in the kind of damage-control mode that it so...
Tags: The Pennsylvania State University, USC Trojans, University of Miami, Ethics, Awards and Prizes
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Should Emmert keep NCAA president job?
Exit plan a must Teddy Greenstein Chicago Tribune Mark Emmert needs to go. His rogue enforcement staff has heaped embarrassment on a group that already might have been less popular than Congress. And it's not as if the botched Miami case is the...Tags: The Pennsylvania State University, U.S. Congress, Education, Woody Allen, Chicago Tribune
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SEC football needs to shed FCS cupcakes, schedule tougher nonconference games
The Southeastern Conference needs to go on a diet. Forget the cabbage. Put away the watermelon. Leave the grapefruit for the health nuts. What the SEC needs to avoid is the cupcakes. Not the sugary sweet ones that you find next to the deli at the...
Tags: Football, Media Industry, College Baseball, Southern Methodist Mustangs, Justice System
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Ariya Jutanugarn leads LPGA Thailand by three strokes
Thai teenager Ariya Jutanugarn shot a two-under 70 to lead by three strokes after the third round of the LPGA Thailand at Chonburi despite finishing with two bogeys. Last year's top-ranked amateur, Ariya, 17 years old, had seven birdies —...Tags: Football, Miami Hurricanes, Mountain West Conference, Se Ri Pak, Tommy Robredo
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Pa. state senator chastises NCAA's "delusional understanding" of law
Nittany LinesState Sen. Jake Corman (R-34th District) challenged the NCAA's lawsuit against Pennsylvania this week, along with the NCAA itself. Gov. Tom Corbett on Wednesday signed Corman's bill to keep the NCAA's $60 million fine in Pennsylvania. The NCAA immediately... -
'President Emmert continues to disappoint,' Charlie Dent says
Nittany LinesThe NCAA and state of Pennsylvania continued their squabbles on several fronts Wednesday. In addition to the NCAA's lawsuit against the state (read about that here), two Pennsylvania Congressmen said NCAA President Mark Emmert is "stonewalling" their... -
Matt Murschel: Miami a no-win situation for NCAA
The NCAA claims it found ‘missteps’ in its investigation into the University of Miami. Missteps? The NCAA flat out plummeted off the cliff on this one. No matter how you define it, the Miami investigation could become the NCAA’s...
Tags: Miami Hurricanes, Nevin Shapiro, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Lawyers
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Time to give NCAA the death penalty
At what point does one university president mutter over a burner phone to another university president, "Can we give the NCAA the death penalty?" Hopefully it's after reading page 22, footnotes 33 and 34, of the report on the investigation of the NCAA's...
Tags: Nevin Shapiro, Punishment, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Colleges and Universities, College Sports
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NCAA announces its staff violated policies during its investigation of UM program
Miami is inching closer to getting its NCAA notice of allegations, a list of major violations investigators suspect were committed by members of the Hurricanes' football and men's basketball staff. The NCAA announced Monday it has wrapped up a review...
Tags: Criminals, Justice System, Bankruptcy, Lawyers, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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