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Sports

Ohio State Trustees To Review Athletic Program

Ohio State University trustees will spend up to six weeks reviewing the athletic program after the scandal that led to the suspension of five players and the forced resignation of football coach Jim Tressel.

June 23, 2011

Sports

NCAA Forum Aims to Increase Minority Head Coaches

Seven African-American coaches, including three former NFL players, participated Friday in The Champion Forum, the top tier of the NCAA’s coaching academy, during a weeklong convention of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics.

June 19, 2011

Sports

Perspective: While Spurrier Plan To Pay Players is Self-Serving, It Opens Door to More Dialogue

Stop pretending college football is anything but the big-time business it really is and start paying the employees whose hard work generate the revenue to begin with, a sports columnist writes.

June 4, 2011

Leadership & Policy

Perspective: Increase Diversity Among Division I College Football Coaches

Bringing the Rooney Rule to the collegiate level would help increase diversity among head football coaches, athletic directors and conference commissioners.

May 9, 2011

Sports

Jury: Grambling State University Owes Fired Coach $460,500

Grambling attorney John Madison Jr. said the university will appeal the award, which includes $11,000 in penalty wages and $449,500 for breach of contract.

May 8, 2011

Sports

Conference: Race Matters in Collegiate Sports

Expert panelists at the “Losing to Win” sports conference turned their attention to the media coverage of minority student-athletes.

April 14, 2011

Sports

VCU Coach Shaka Smart’s Rise No Shock to Those Who Know Him

By taking VCU to the Final Four at just age 33, Shaka Smart has become the coach of the moment, the prospect at the top of everyone’s wish list.

March 30, 2011

Sports

Rarity in Division I Athletics, Native American Excels on Basketball Court

A finalist for the 2011 Sullivan Award, Tahnee Robinson is one of very few highly visible Native Americans playing Division I basketball.

March 24, 2011

Sports

Diversity in College Sports Continues to Lag Behind the Pros

The majority of athletic director positions at colleges and universities are held by White people, with little or no change since the report card in 2008.

March 3, 2011

Sports

Gallaudet Women on the Road to Winners’ Circle

Gallaudet University senior Easter Faafiti hits the basketball court with teammates this weekend in hopes of not only winning the North Eastern Athletic Conference title but also extending a playing season that already has changed the minds of much of the hearing public.

February 24, 2011

Sports

North Carolina A&T Fires Official Over Sickle Cell Death

North Carolina A&T State University fired an athletics official and suspended a second after learning coaches were urged against testing potential athletes for the sickle cell trait two days before one died during a tryout.

January 19, 2011

Sports

Stanford Names David Shaw as Jim Harbaugh’s Successor

Stanford University has announced that offensive coordinator David Shaw has been promoted to lead the ascendant football program.

January 16, 2011