Tuesday, March 19th, 2013
In one of the most amusing bluffs in the history of anything, Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany says his league will go to Division III before it pays one of its athletes a dime.
In an interview with Sports Illustrated, Delany claimed that is the route the conference will take if ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2012
Well, it took a few months for us to find out, but now we know that Texas Longhorns guard Myck Kabongo will be suspended by the NCAA for the rest of the 2012-13 college basketball season. According to Yahoo! Sports, the NCAA's investigation of the potential NBA first-round pick centered ...
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2012
Former USC running backs coach Todd McNair essentially had his career ended by the NCAA's punishment of the school's football program. The NCAA ruled that McNair "knew or should have known" about payments from a wannabe sports agent to running back Reggie Bush, despite a serious lack of evidence.
Now McNair ...
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Monday, November 19th, 2012
The robber barons were the men who helped grow the American economy into the world's giant. Many of our finest universities bear some of their names -- Duke, Stanford, Vanderbilt.
They just happened to build it on the backs of underpaid immigrants and the occasional child laborer, which was all fine ...
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2012
From our waistlines to our politics, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and I have very little in common, although a mutual love for The Boss is a nice thing to fall back on. I bet he likes farting, too.
But one thing Christie and I definitely see eye-to-eye on, besides bacon's ...
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2012
NCAA President Mark Emmert said recently that he hopes he will never have to punish another school in the manner he punished Penn State. Some may think this means he doesn't want to ever be as harsh again, but what he was referring to was the unprecedented powers granted to ...
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Thursday, September 13th, 2012
After the 2011 college football season, the NCAA created a number of rules to augment safety in the game. They moved up the kickoff spot to the 35 yard line and allowed touchbacks to come out to the 25 instead of the 20 yard line. They also instituted the so-called ...
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