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Sports
HBCU Alums Well Represented in 2006 NBA Playoffs
Historically Black colleges and universities are not the first places that come to mind when you think of professional sports factories. HBCUs rarely play a significant role in the multimillion-dollar college athletics industry and generally don’t send many players into the professional ranks. But those few alums that do make it to the pros seem […]
May 22, 2006
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Minority Coaches On the Move In High-Profile Basketball Programs
It’s not unusual for the annual postseason coaching carousel to deposit old faces in new places. But for the minority head coaches playing musical chairs this off-season…
May 3, 2006
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NCAA academic penalties could await schools
Men’s basketball teams at Arizona State University and Texas A&M University and football teams at the University of Arizona…
April 13, 2006
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Police: Booster’s Death an Accident, Not a Slaying
An Alabama booster died in an accident at his home, rather than being slain as first thought…
April 12, 2006
Sports
Police Hesitant to Label Death of Alabama Booster A Homicide
Police backed off calling the death of a University of Alabama football booster a homicide Wednesday, a day after investigators said he died in a fierce, bloody struggle…
April 12, 2006
Sports
Minority Coaches On the Move In High-Profile Basketball Programs
It’s not unusual for the annual postseason coaching carousel to deposit old faces in new places. But for the minority head coaches playing musical chairs this off-season…
April 12, 2006
Sports
Oklahoma to Name Jeff Capel Head basketball Coach
The University of Oklahoma has a press conference scheduled for this afternoon to announce that Jeff Capel will be replacing Kelvin Sampson as the men’s basketball head coach. Capel has spent the past four seasons at the helm of Virginia Commonwealth University’s basketball program. He compiled a record of 79-41 while at VCU, a program […]
April 11, 2006
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Study: Black Athlete Graduation Rises 24 Points Over 20 Years
The number of Black athletes getting diplomas across all NCAA Division I sports jumped 24 percentage points from 1984 to 2004, marking big gains for a demographic that once recorded just 35 percent graduation success…
April 5, 2006
Students
When Academics And Athletics Collide
When things are going right, there’s nobody more popular on the college campus than the student-athlete…
April 5, 2006
Students
In The Penalty Box
In the world of big-time college athletics, academic reform is now a mandate. Why?…
April 5, 2006
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Sports
Getting In The Game
Last season, news media from around the country fixated on the University of Southern California football team, the speculation escalating with each game…
April 5, 2006
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Leadership & Policy
The Westerhaus Way
In 2005, the NCAA took a significant step towards combating one of the most consistent criticisms in intercollegiate athletics…
April 5, 2006
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