Marian University wins national football title
Marian University of Indianapolis captured its first national title Thursday night in only its sixth season of football.
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Purdue hires football coach Hazell from Kent State
Purdue University has hired Darrell Hazell as its new football coach. Hazell won this season's Mid-American Conference coach of the year award after leading Kent State to its first winning season since 2001.
Big Ten football title game crowd disappoints organizers
Organizers of the Big Ten football championship played in Indianapolis say they’ll consider making changes for next year’s game in an attempt to boost attendance.
Demand soft for Big Ten football title game tickets
Organizers of the Big Ten Conference football championship game are facing third-and-long in their quest to fill Lucas Oil Stadium for Saturday night’s matchup. A glut of tickets remains available on the secondary market.
Purdue makes quick decision to fire football coach Hope
Purdue wants a football team that can get to the Rose Bowl, and decided Danny Hope was not the coach to take it there. Replacement names already percolating include Northern Illinois’ Dave Doeren, Illinois State’s Brock Spack and Ball State’s Pete Lembo.
BENNER: Big Ten follows the no-boundaries, big-money pack
It has become clear that, in the new world order of big-time intercollegiate athletics, these are the things that really matter: eyeballs.
Rutgers follows Maryland to Big Ten, leaving Big East
Rutgers University is moving to the Big Ten Conference, ending a more than two-decade affiliation with the Big East as it looks to strengthen its athletic, financial and academic standing.
Maryland leaving ACC to join Big Ten in 2014
Maryland will become the southernmost member of the Big Ten member starting in July 2014. Rutgers is expected to follow suit by Tuesday, splitting from the Big East and making it an even 14 schools in the Big Ten.
Extension keeps Crean under contract for rest of decade
The IU coach's base salary will go from approximately $2.52 million per year to $3.16 million. The deal also includes performance bonuses based on Academic Progress Rate scores, Graduation Success Rate scores and the team's GPA.
Butler University raises $12 million in campaign to refurbish historic Hinkle Fieldhouse
Built in 1928, the aging facility is about to undergo its most extensive renovation since the building began hosting basketball games shortly before the Great Depression.
NCAA approves tougher sanctions for rule-breakers
The NCAA passed a package of sweeping changes Tuesday intended to crack down hard on rule-breaking schools and coaches.
NCAA’s moves over betting ‘ludicrous,’ N.J. official says
The NCAA is "ludicrous and hypocritical" for moving five championship games out of New Jersey next year because the state plans to offer legalized sports betting, a spokesman for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said.
Notre Dame revival brings revenue bonanza to football foes
Notre Dame’s football squad is undefeated after five games for the first time in a decade. That’s good news for their opponents: The team is even more of a draw on the road for fans and sponsors.
A10 schools already hyping Butler match-ups
The Atlantic 10 is wasting little time marketing its newest member—the Butler Bulldogs.
Horizon League fights on after loss of Butler
The Indianapolis-based Horizon League says it is “energized” about its future, despite losing its most famous member—Butler University.
Big-time college sports leadership still a man’s world
Forty years after the U.S. government’s Title IX law required equal athletic opportunities for men and women, just four women are in charge at the 120 sports departments in NCAA football’s top tier.
Notre Dame bolting Big East for Atlantic Coast Conference
The University of Notre Dame is leaving the Big East for the Atlantic Coast Conference in all sports but football.
New company focuses on making football helmets that reduce concussions
Bill Simpson, famous for pioneering multiple advances in auto-racing safety, has turned his attention to a new sport. His new company, SGH Helmets, is making a football helmet that Simpson hopes will help prevent concussions.
NCAA committee endorses new penalty structure
Nearly a year after promising to impose harsher sanctions on the most egregious rule-breakers, NCAA leaders endorsed a proposal Thursday that would make schools subject to the same crippling penalties just handed to Penn State.
BENNER: Penn State punishment won’t get to root of our problem
As I surveyed the reaction to the NCAA’s decision to crush the football program at Penn State University, one thought kept coming to me in two entirely different ways: What if it had been my son?