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11/29/2016

Vassar Makes Ugly Allegations As fate would have it I suppose, Northwestern University-one of the world's finest academic institutions, has become the epicenter for the college athletes rights movement-like it or not. It has only been less than two years since several Northwestern football players a...

11/28/2016

It’s the golden ticket — an athletic scholarship from a Division I college. Students and parents dream of that moment, but less than 2 percent of all high school athletes receive such offers, as detailed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Competing as an Ivy League athlete is th...

11/26/2016

Thoughts?

ESPN college basketball analyst Jay Williams says college athletes aren't fairly treated by the NCAA but doubts serious change is coming.

11/26/2016

A former tutor has come forward to say that she took courses for Missouri student athletes.

11/23/2016

"The NCAA sometimes does get it right however and makes a very simple solution to what was once a complicated rule. The “extra food” issue is a great example of this. In the past, college athletes could not get any food provided by the athletic department, school, boosters etc. that was not already included in the athletic scholarship. Most athletic scholarships that covered board would either be a cash equivalent of what is allowed for a residence hall dweller on campus or a meal card typically worth three meals a day." via Forbes

In college sports governance we always seem to over complicate things. The old sayings of less is more and keep it simple stupid might just help us out in solving the daily and consistent issues that hang over the "amateur" games we love but we fail to do it virtually [...]

11/21/2016

Legislators vs Clinicians: "The concern was elevated in Texas after bills proposed during the previous two legislative sessions wanted to make ECGs a routine part of the physical exams required to participate in University Interscholastic League programs."

Science could soon quell a divisive and emotional debate about whether all Texas high school students need heart tests before participating in...

11/19/2016

How cool!

MaxPreps News - 74 percent of Pennsylvania players are on college teams in their hometown state, while just 27 percent of Florida players can say the same.

11/19/2016

On the eve of the presidential election, the three teammates sat in the locker room at Kohl Center in Madison, Wis., after practice and discussed the challenges and opportunities of being athletes — particularly college athletes — who want their voices heard.

Three University of Wisconsin basketball players discuss the challenges and opportunities of being athletes agitating for change.

11/19/2016

UNC Prof. Smith argues the focus needs to be on student-athletes themselves: “They don’t have a seat at the table. They have no say in setting the terms in which they perform their athletic feats,” Smith said. “As a result of that, they’re [at] the mercy of their coaches who run this professional commercial enterprise, and who are pressured to win at all costs.”

The NCAA and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are at loggerheads over the ongoing investigation into academic fraud at the university. Recent