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Can NCAA give itself a death penalty?
If you're a University of Miami fan, you're confident of one thing today. The NCAA is as covered with Nevin Shapiro's stench as you are. Maybe more. Its officials always flaunt toy badges and stand on the highest ground in the sewage plant they've...
Tags: ESPN (tv network), Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, University of Miami, Coral Gables
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New NCAA rules will turn college recruiting into "the wild, wild West"
If you think it's bad now, just wait. If you think college football recruiting has become too big and too time-consuming and too insanely excessive, just wait. If you think 17-year-old high school football players have become too self-important, too...
Tags: Football, Telecommunication Service, High School Sports, High Schools, Jimbo Fisher
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UCF's O'Leary: NCAA boss should hold himself as accountable as head coaches
Running off at the typewriter. … Excuse me for rolling my eyes and scoffing at the utter hypocrisy of college athletics, but isn't it time for NCAA President Mark Emmert to penalize himself for failing to promote an atmosphere of compliance and...Tags: Orlando Magic, Super Bowl, National Basketball Association, National Football League, Katie Couric
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Time For NCAA To Start From Scratch, Chart A New Course
The Hartford CourantThis isn't about the good guys and the bad guys anymore. There always will be good guys and bad guys. This is about common sense, the kind of sense that is sometimes hard to find among the most educated and entitled. The NCAA has lost the faith of the...Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, ESPN (tv network), Nevin Shapiro, Heisman Trophy, Shabazz Muhammad
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College football rankings with bowl-game twist
Rankman and SportsBusiness Journal have teamed up for a first-they-have-heard-about-it collaboration based on SBJ's seventh annual analysis of bowl gifts provided to players. This year's most popular gift is the Fossil watch, provided at 19 of the 35...
Tags: LSU Tigers, Trips and Vacations, Sugar Bowl, Potatoes, Wayne Newton
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Penn State is no match for heavy hand of the NCAA
The NCAA's plan to cripple Penn State as it humiliates innocent players could not be working out better. The NCAA defeated Penn State, 17-16, on Saturday to improve its record to 2-0. This week, the organization embedded in the University of Virginia....
Tags: Football, Big Ten Conference, College Football, Sports, Crime, Law and Justice
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Jeff Jacobs: In Nailing Penn State, Did NCAA Open Pandora's Box?
The Hartford CourantNCAA justice was swift for Penn State, conveniently swift, unprecedented and not all together blind to public relations. There also could be no misunderstanding the severity of the punishment. Penn State has been brought to its knees. The crushing...Tags: Football, Abusive Behavior, Big Ten Conference, Values, College Football
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Beamer removing Paterno Award as proper as sanctions against Penn State
Frank Beamer received the first Joseph V. Paterno Award in 2010, emblematic of college football coaches who not only win games but also mold young men. Last week, Beamer moved the plaque from his Virginia Tech office and into storage. “I thought it...
Tags: NFL Draft, North Carolina State University, Football, Virginia Cavaliers, Miami Hurricanes
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When it comes to PSU viewpoint, location matters
Perhaps no other figure in sports history with the exception of O.J. Simpson has suffered a greater fall than the late Joe Paterno. And the images that we've seen on television starting last fall and continuing with Paterno's passing in January and again...Tags: ESPN (tv network), Coca-Cola Co., Auto Racing, Football, O.J. Simpson
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Report: Penn State faced 4-year 'death penalty'
Penn State faced a multiyear shutdown of its football program had it not agreed with the sanctions imposed by the NCAA earlier this week, university President Rodney Erickson told ESPN. The football program at Penn State faced a four-year "death...
Tags: FBI, ESPN (tv network), Southern Methodist University, Football, Abusive Behavior
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NCAA president "confident" in sanctions against Penn State
Nittany LinesNCAA President Mark Emmert said in a radio interview Monday that he remains confident in the Executive Committe's decision to sanction Penn State, adding that those penalties will hold unless "a whole new set of facts" emerges. (Photo courtesy Getty...... -
Pa. state senator chastises NCAA's "delusional understanding" of law
Nittany LinesState Sen. Jake Corman (R-34th District) challenged the NCAA's lawsuit against Pennsylvania this week, along with the NCAA itself. Gov. Tom Corbett on Wednesday signed Corman's bill to keep the NCAA's $60 million fine in Pennsylvania. The NCAA immediately...
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