NCAA wants new March Madness TV deal
The NCAA last month reopened negotiations with CBS and Turner Broadcasting System for its massive men’s basketball tournament television contract, which generates 85 percent of the organization's revenue.
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Author: Ex-escort ‘absolutely’ wrote journals about UofL activities
Journalist Dick Cady dismissed suggestions by Coach Rick Pitino that former escort Katina Powell didn’t write the journals that serve as the basis for a book alleging a former University of Louisville basketball staffer hired strippers and prostitutes to entertain recruits
Pitino: No interview with NCAA about escort’s book
Louisville Coach Rick Pitino said he believes one person did “scurrilous things” related to the basketball program. But he raised questions about journals by escort Katina Powell that allege women were hired to strip and have sex with recruits.
IBJ’s most-read stories of 2015
Despite national attention paid to RFRA and Jared Fogle, most of IBJ’s top-read online stories this year were the result of deeply sourced reporting on people, issues and businesses specific to central Indiana.
Penalties for pot use easing for college athletes
An AP investigation found that some major universities are lightening punishments for athletes using marijuana. The Indianapolis-based NCAA has halved its suspension for testing positive for street drugs at championship events.
Ball State football coach Lembo resigns to join Maryland
Pete Lembo resigned Tuesday after five years at Ball State to join Maryland as assistant head coach and special teams coordinator.
Purdue football alums pledge $12.1M for athletics center
Donors for the expansion of the Mollenkopf Athletic Center include former quarterback Drew Brees.
Marian wins 2nd NAIA football title in 3 years
Marian University, which didn’t have a football program a decade ago, has been to the national championship game three years in a row.
Purdue trustees set to OK $60M football facility upgrade
The project is designed to upgrade the football program's out-of-date facilities and make them contemporary with the school's peers across the country.
No daily fantasy ads to run during College Football Playoff
The Indianapolis-based NCAA as well as the FBS conferences asked DraftKings and FanDuel to stop offering college versions of their games because they consider them gambling.
Purdue AD expects changes after dismal football season
Purdue athletic director Morgan Burke called the football program the “lynchpin” of the athletic department’s finances, and the number of empty seats at Ross-Ade Stadium has been causing consternation.
NCAA moving March Madness selection meeting from Indy to NYC
Next March's move from Indianapolis is intended to raise the profile of the session with more media exposure for the selection process.
NCAA: College athletes breaking records in graduation rates
Grad rates for the 2008-09 freshman class were up 2 percentage points over rates for the 2007-08 freshmen class, to a record 86 percent. The four-year numbers went up one point, reaching an all-time high of 83 percent.
Grand jury investigating Louisville basketball sex scandal
The book, “Breaking Cardinal Rules: Basketball and the Escort Queen,” has spurred a grand jury investigation into allegations that strippers and prostitutes were used to entertain University of Louisville basketball players and recruits.
Lawyer: Escort unlikely to talk with NCAA without immunity
The attorney for Katina Powell says his client is unlikely to cooperate with authorities and the NCAA unless she receives immunity for her allegations that a former University of Louisville men's basketball staffer hired her to conduct sex parties for recruits and players.
Former Louisville assistant tied to sex scandal resigns from UMKC job
Andre McGee, a University of Missouri-Kansas City assistant basketball coach, has resigned in the wake of what he called "false allegations" that he arranged sex parties for recruits while he was a coach at Louisville.
Louisville student sues author, IBJ publishing unit over book
The lawsuit seeks class-action status, claiming the career prospects of all University of Louisville students have been hurt by Katina Powell’s book, which alleges she supplied strippers and prostitutes for basketball recruits.
Louisville coach Pitino: ‘I will not resign’ over allegations
Louisville men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino vowed that he “will not resign” as investigations continue into allegations that one of his former staffers hired dancers to strip and have sex with recruits and players.
Purdue seeks OK for $60M football performance complex
The renovated Mollenkopf Athletic Center would house a locker room, players' lounge, meeting rooms, a sports performance training area, a sports medicine facility and coaches' offices.
NCAA disassociates college sports from daily fantasy games
The NCAA has decided not to meet with executives from two popular fantasy game websites as part of a plan to distance itself from the industry.