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Emmert, Shalala fight over whom Shapiro fooled more
For 45 finger-wagging pages, the University of Miami's best lawyers criticized, condemned and posed in perfectly nuanced ways a question that fit NCAA President Mark Emmert with a clown nose: Why was Nevin Shapiro given such credibility? It's a...
Tags: College Sports, Randy Shannon, College Basketball, Punishment, ESPN (tv network)
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Change needed at the top for both Rutgers and NCAA
Once upon a time — actually this week — in a land not too far away, two kings stood defiant as adversity swirled around them. Both held court in front of hordes of media members, who came armed with only questions and were seeking nothing...
Tags: Google Inc., University of Miami, Joe Williams, The Pennsylvania State University, Rutgers University
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From Rutgers to Auburn, it sure seems like we're addicted to college sports scandal
Let's fantasize. (No, wait! That's not what I meant. There will be no mention of Katee Sackhoff in her "Starbuck" combat outfit anywhere in this column — uh, other than just now. We're talking fantasy for the sports nerd in most of us.) We...
Tags: Google Inc., Barack Obama, College Basketball, World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., College Sports
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UConn's George Blaney Explains How To Stop Syracuse, Louisville
The Hartford CourantNobody could be more defensive at the 2013 Final Four than Mark Emmert, but Syracuse and Louisville are going to give it a try. The way the beleaguered NCAA president went after Dennis Dodd of CBSsports.com and a few others during his annual news...Tags: College Basketball, Kevin McHale, Marquette Golden Eagles, Jim Calhoun, Louisville Cardinals
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Scandals overshadow joy as NCAA prepares to celebrate Final Four
The NCAA tournament, celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, is desperately hoping to get to this weekend’s Final Four before another scandal breaks. The odds right now in Las Vegas, where the Pac-12 Conference recently held its postseason...Tags: College Basketball, ESPN (tv network), Culture, Music, USA Today
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Kevin Ware of Louisville tweets he'll 'be back by next season'
Kevin Ware was a busy guy on Monday. After having surgery on his broken right leg the night before, the Louisville guard spent part of the day up and about on crutches at the advice of his doctors. He entertained numerous visitors, including Coach...Tags: DeAndre Jordan, Los Angeles Lakers, Kobe Bryant, Twitter, Inc., Carmelo Anthony
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Perhaps Big East refugees should seek corporate sponsor for new name
What's in a name? For the schools of the Catholic 7 — Georgetown, St. John's, Villanova, Seton Hall, Providence, Marquette and DePaul — it's everything. With no maiden name to fall back on, the Catholic 7 members were forced to do the next...
Tags: Google Inc., Tulane Green Wave, College Basketball, Marquette Golden Eagles, Ludacris
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Bill O'Brien says perseverance key to Penn State's success
Bill O'Brien remembers the moment clearly. It was July 23, 2012 — five months after he was hired — and the 43-year-old O'Brien was sitting in his office watching the television. There on the screen was NCAA president Mark Emmert, somber...
Tags: Google Inc., UCF Knights, Bill Belichick, Heisman Trophy, Penn State Nittany Lions
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NCAA sees bumps in the road, but schools pay for the damage
Come to find out, the creators of the dreaded "lack of institutional control" have been throwing stones from inside their own glass house. The NCAA, short for the National Collegiate Athletic Assn., is now in the kind of damage-control mode that it so...
Tags: Shabazz Muhammad, College Sports, USC Trojans, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Miami
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SEC football needs to shed FCS cupcakes, schedule tougher nonconference games
The Southeastern Conference needs to go on a diet. Forget the cabbage. Put away the watermelon. Leave the grapefruit for the health nuts. What the SEC needs to avoid is the cupcakes. Not the sugary sweet ones that you find next to the deli at the...
Tags: Boston Red Sox, Google Inc., Tom Corbett, University of Miami, Wisconsin Badgers
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NCAA needs to shake up enforcement efforts
These are dark times for the NCAA. As an organization in charge of monitoring all things college athletics, the NCAA has prided itself with creating a certain brand of integrity. That integrity, however, has taken a big hit as of late. From the way it...
Tags: Google Inc., North Carolina Tar Heels, Virginia Cavaliers, Washington Huskies, College Basketball
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Snubbed And Abandoned: The ACC Keeps Rejecting UConn While Big East Charter Members Flee To Other Conferences
The Hartford CourantIn April 2011, UConn was on top of the college sports world. The men's basketball team, led by Kemba Walker, had just won an improbable national title, the third for coach Jim Calhoun. Geno Auriemma's women's team had made it to the Final Four yet...Tags: North Carolina Tar Heels, Marquette Golden Eagles, St. John's Red Storm, Separation of Church and State, Jim Calhoun
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