Ralph D. Russo, Associated PressSportsNCAA to Distribute Millions for Academic PerformanceThe NCAA will distribute millions of dollars in March Madness money to member schools as a reward for academic performance by athletes, starting in 2019-20. The NCAA announced Thursday that the Division I Board of Directors and NCAA Board of Governors approved the change to the revenue distribution model. The money will come from the […]October 30, 2016StudentsSupreme Court Rejects NCAA Appeal of O’Bannon CaseThe U.S. Supreme Court will not hear the NCAA’s appeal of the Ed O’Bannon case, leaving in place lower court rulings that found amateurism rules for big-time college basketball and football players violated federal antitrust law. The justices on Monday rejected the appeal in a class-action lawsuit originally filed by O’Bannon, a former UCLA basketball […]October 3, 2016StudentsNCAA President Mark Emmert: We Won’t Push ACC on Bathroom LawNCAA President Mark Emmert says it is up to the Atlantic Coast Conference to decide whether it wants to follow the association’s lead and pull events out of North Carolina because of a state law that limits anti-discrimination protections for LGBT people. In an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press, Emmert said the association expects […]September 13, 2016SportsEmmert: North Carolina Law Could Make NCAA Turn AwayHOUSTON ― For the second straight year, NCAA President Mark Emmert faced questions at his Final Four news conference about a state’s religious exemption law that critics say allows discrimination against gays, lesbians and others. And for the second straight year, Emmert said the association is prepared to refrain from doing business in that state […]March 31, 2016StudentsCourt Strikes Down Possible Payments to College AthletesA federal appeals court struck down a plan to pay college football and basketball players in a ruling that NCAA leaders believe supports their contention that the athletes are students and not professionals.September 30, 2015StudentsBad Behavior on Social Media Can Cost RecruitsAt St. Paul’s Episcopal School in Mobile, Alabama, the high school that produced Crimson Tide quarterbacks AJ McCarron and Jake Coker, there’s a new preseason ritual for football players: the social media talk.August 11, 2014StudentsVote Would Let Wealthiest College Football Conferences Set Their Own RulesThe NCAA board of directors will vote Thursday on a proposal that would give the five wealthiest college football conferences the ability to make rules and pass legislation without the approval of the rest of Division I schools.August 6, 2014StudentsVote Would Let Wealthiest College Football Conferences Set Their Own RulesThe NCAA board of directors will vote Thursday on a proposal that would give the five wealthiest college football conferences the ability to make rules and pass legislation without the approval of the rest of Division I schools.August 6, 2014SportsPenn State Fined $60 Million, Wins Vacated from ’98-11Penn State football was all but leveled Monday by an NCAA ruling that wiped away 14 years of coach Joe Paterno’s victories and imposed a mountain of fines and penalties, crippling a program whose pedophile assistant coach spent uncounted years molesting children.July 22, 2012Page 1 of 1
