NCAA academic committee considering changes to rating system
The Indianapolis-based NCAA may start holding schools more accountable for the academic progress of athletes who are graduate transfers.
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NCAA board votes to keep Emmert as prez through 2020
Mark Emmert’s tenure has been marked by dramatic changes in the way the Indianapolis-based NCAA does business and near constant pressure from lawsuits against the association.
Judge OKs reworked NCAA concussions settlement
A federal judge in Chicago gave preliminary approval Tuesday to a modified head-injury settlement between thousands of former college athletes and the NCAA that includes a $70 million fund to test for brain trauma.
NCAA leader Emmert applauds student-athlete activism
During his annual speech at the NCAA convention, NCAA President Mark Emmert said he's disappointed that member schools aren't hiring more women and minorities as coaches.
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.
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.
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.
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The project is designed to upgrade the football program's out-of-date facilities and make them contemporary with the school's peers across the country.
NCAA joins group supporting LGBT rights in Indiana
The NCAA has thrown its considerable heft behind efforts to get Indiana lawmakers to add LGBT civil rights protections into state law.
Oliver Luck: ‘No pheasant under glass’ for college athletes
NCAA Executive Vice President Oliver Luck wants you to know college athletes aren’t being served pheasant under glass. And there’s no out-of-control spending in college athletics.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Escort: How could Pitino not know of recruit sex parties?
ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” which aired an interview with Katina Powell on Tuesday, said it received confirmation of her story from five former Louisville basketball players and recruits.