Wednesday, July 18th, 2012
Penn State said Tuesday that it plans to respond quickly to the NCAA's demand for information concerning the Jerry Sandusky child abuse scandal. The university says it will respond to the NCAA "within days" as the organization decides whether or not to levy penalties against the school.
The NCAA is in ...
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Sunday, June 3rd, 2012
Food Inc. and other books and documentaries, not to mention the "pink slime" controversy, have pretty well driven the point home that it probably isn't a good idea for the food industry to police itself with little intervention from the government. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was caused, at least ...
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Thursday, February 9th, 2012
Back in June, I wrote that the NCAA was coming down harshly on the University of North Dakota for its "offensive" mascot simply because the NCAA was too afraid to go after the more powerful member institutions and too weak to actually enforce its own rule.
Since then, laws have been ...
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Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
Last year, we began what we hope becomes a tradition here at Rumors and Rants and tipped our hats to Cheap Trick by naming the losers of the year in every sport we pay attention to.
In case you are wondering, there is no scientific formula to being named loser of ...
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Thursday, November 10th, 2011
The NCAA has notified Ohio State that it will face a "failure to monitor charge" in addition to more allegations related to its football program. On Thursday Ohio State announced it will dock itself five total football scholarships over the next three years in response to the new alleged violations.
The ...
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Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
In his first interview since being fired by the University of Tennessee, Bruce Pearl told Atlanta radio station 790 The Zone that he thinks he'll get another chance at coaching in college basketball again. Pearl was fired on March 21 for committing multiple NCAA violations. Despite that, he thinks he ...
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Saturday, June 18th, 2011
It has been five years since the NCAA enacted a policy that essentially prohibits member institutions from using Native American mascots and logos. This policy supposedly affected many schools including well-known ones like the Florida State Seminoles, Utah Utes, and Illinois Fighting Illini. Illinois even got rid of Chief Illiniwek, ...
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