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A Love of Sports and of Leading the Way

University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Kelly Mehrtens is part of a small but growing club of women athletic directors at Division I schools.

October 1, 2008

S.C. State and Clemson U. Play Historic Football Game

When the final whistle blew, the scoreboard in Death Valley read Clemson 54, South Carolina State 0, but on this Saturday in late September, there was more than a football game being played.

September 29, 2008

Leadership & Policy

New Study: Men’s Football, Basketball Programs Limit Other Men’s Sports, Not Title IX

Another men’s college wrestling program is discontinued and familiar accusations fly: it’s the fault of Title IX and money being spent on women’s sports. Time and again critics point to Title IX as the reason for cuts in men’s sports.

September 25, 2008

No Athletic Dept at Vandy, But Much Success

As president of Vanderbilt University and four other prominent schools before that, Gordon Gee perceived an unhappy trend: Student-athletes were drifting away from the core of university life. They lived, ate and studied in a jock bubble.

September 7, 2008

Lincoln University Hosts its First Football Game in 48 Years

For the time in 48 years, Lincoln University’s football team will take the field. They are scheduled to play George Mason University Saturday afternoon. The football game begins a huge weekend of home events for the Lincoln University Athletics Department.

August 28, 2008

Study: NFL Has Slightly More Hispanic, Asian Players

The NFL has kept a steady number of Black head coaches, while slightly increasing the ranks of Asian and Hispanic players, earning a B+ in an annual diversity study Wednesday.

August 27, 2008

Minority Head Coaches Have Some of 2008’s Biggest Football Games

For football fans the long six-month wait is finally over.

August 26, 2008

NCAA Penalizes New Mexico for Football Violations

The NCAA put New Mexico’s football program on three years of probation Wednesday and cut five scholarships as punishment for academic violations involving two former assistant coaches.

August 21, 2008

Faculty & Staff

A Quick Rebound? Not So Fast

In the post-Hurricane Katrina era, the future remains uncertain for New Orleans college athletics.

June 25, 2008

Faculty & Staff

Collegiate Athletics in New Orleans Struggle to Rebound Post-Hurricane Katrina

Eddie Francis bursts out laughing when he recounts his unexpected coaching debut for Southern University at New Orleans earlier this semester.

June 24, 2008

Despite Record Female Participation in Athletics, Percentage of Women Coaches Declines

Coaching women’s sports has become a man’s world.

June 2, 2008

Arthur Ashe Jr. 2008 Finalists

Cliff Hammonds, who led Clemson University to its best basketball season in years, has also impressed his architecture classmates and professors — so much so that they recently created a Citation for Excellence for the senior’s ability to squeeze in basketball practice between drafting architecture models throughout his four-year college career. “They actually made up […]

May 28, 2008

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