July 1st, 2009
Florida State says it's unfair to take wins off the individual records of football coach Bobby Bowden and other coaches and athletes who had no role in an academic cheating scandal. In an appeal to the NCAA Wednesday, the university argued that a proposal to strip the school, its coaches and athletes of victories in several sports is too harsh and should be reversed
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June 30th, 2009
The Senate plans to hold a hearing next week looking into antitrust issues surrounding the Bowl Championship Series. It's the second time this year that Congress is shining a light on the polarizing system college football uses to crown its national champion. The hearing will be held next Tuesday in the Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on antitrust, competition policy and consumer rights,…
June 26th, 2009
Dave Wannstedt may be 57, but he's still trying to catch 82-year-old Joe Paterno. When Wannstedt was hired by alma mater Pittsburgh before the 2005 football season, one of his first promises was that the Panthers would erect a virtual fence around western Pennsylvania and dissuade the area's top high school recruits from going elsewhere.
June 25th, 2009
The University of Alabama said Thursday it has taken the first step toward appealing a ruling by the NCAA that forced the Crimson Tide football program to vacate 21 wins.
June 20th, 2009
Iowa offensive lineman Kyle Calloway has been arrested and charged with operating a mo-ped while intoxicated. Iowa City police say Calloway was arrested early Saturday after officers stopped him while he was driving into a barricaded area. Police say the 22-year-old senior was given a breath test, which registered 0.106.
June 18th, 2009
The NCAA infractions committee intends to uphold sanctions against Florida State that would take away wins in 10 sports, including as many as 14 by football coach Bobby Bowden. After a public records lawsuit and intervention by Florida's attorney general, the NCAA allowed Florida State to release the committee's June 2 response to FSU's appeal of the NCAA punishment that would strip…
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June 16th, 2009
The NCAA is allowing Florida State to release a version of its letter to the school on a disciplinary case resulting from an academic cheating scandal, officials said Tuesday. The school must first retype the report from a computer format and redact names, Florida State general counsel Betty Steffens said.
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June 12th, 2009
Bob Frederick, who took criticism for hiring an obscure assistant named Roy Williams as Kansas basketball coach and later helped create the Big 12 Conference, died Friday night following a bicycling accident. He was 69
June 12th, 2009
What if the NCAA expanded its conference challenges in basketball to the football field? Who comes out on top?
June 12th, 2009
The Rose Bowl will be televised on ESPN beginning in January 2011, giving the network broadcast rights to all Bowl Championship Series games.