
NCAA says threats were made after football player’s waiver denial
The NCAA said its national office in Indianapolis was coordinating with law enforcement to deal with possibly criminal threats against committee members.
The NCAA said its national office in Indianapolis was coordinating with law enforcement to deal with possibly criminal threats against committee members.
While many in and around college sports believe revenue-sharing with major college football players is inevitable, those in position to affect change are more cautious.
The spread of legalized sports gambling—and some early scandals—have captured the full attention of athletic departments and conference offices. All major conferences are paying independent betting monitors to make sure their athletes abide by the rules—and to catch those who are not.
Woodson has four years remaining on his contract after leading his alma mater to consecutive NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament appearances for the first time in a decade.
Meanwhile, the Big 12 completed its raid of the beleaguered Pac-12 by adding Arizona, Arizona State and Utah.
A group of Big Ten Conference presidents has begun discussing the possibility of adding more West Coast schools to the conference if the Pac-12 continues to crumble, two people familiar with the conversations said.
The review, which found college sports was at a “crossroads,” was one of the first items on NCAA President Charlie Baker’s to-do list when he took over in March.
The lawsuit said the alleged acts took place while the athletic trainer was under the supervision of Butler University’s senior associate athletic director for student-athlete health, performance and well-being.
Charlie Baker, president of the Indianapolis-based NCAA, called the legislation “a major step in the right direction.”
A former Wildcats football player filed the first lawsuit against former coach Pat Fitzgerald and members of the school’s leadership on Tuesday. More lawsuits, filed by multiple law firms, are expected to follow.
The tournament will operate like the men’s National Invitational Tournament as an option for 32 teams that do not make the women’s side of March Madness.
The rapidly expanding landscape of not-for-profit, donor-backed collectives paying college athletes to promote charities has been hit with a potentially seismic disruption.
In 2018, subscription sports website The Athletic hired Bob Kravitz as senior staff writer for its Indiana edition.
NCAA President Charlie Baker said Thursday he wants a federal law to regulate the way college athletes can be compensated for endorsement deals that creates a registry of deals, agent certification and uniform contract standards.
Before his 16-year run at the University of Notre Dame, Swarbrick was a prominent attorney in Indianapolis who served as chairman of the Indiana Sports Corp. He helped convince the NCAA to relocate its headquarters to Indianapolis and the NFL to hold the Super Bowl in Indianapolis in 2012.
National player of the year Zach Edey decided it was the right call to go back to school instead of playing in the NBA.
Bosso joins IUPUI a little more than a year before the school transitions to Indiana University Indianapolis at the start of the 2024-2025 academic year.
Zach Edey is the first player in NCAA history to finish a season with at least 750 points, 400 rebounds, 70 blocks and 50 assists in a season, but most projections don’t have him being selected in the first round of the draft.
Tony Petitti is set to replace Kevin Warren, who is leaving to become president of the Chicago Bears.
March Madness may have been the last time for fans to see many of the talented college women players compete. Players’ options for professional basketball careers are limited, whether in the U.S. or overseas—the jobs just aren’t there.