Big Ten football title game crowd disappoints organizers
Organizers of the Big Ten football championship played in Indianapolis say they’ll consider making changes for next year’s game in an attempt to boost attendance.
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Rutgers follows Maryland to Big Ten, leaving Big East
Rutgers University is moving to the Big Ten Conference, ending a more than two-decade affiliation with the Big East as it looks to strengthen its athletic, financial and academic standing.
Maryland leaving ACC to join Big Ten in 2014
Maryland will become the southernmost member of the Big Ten member starting in July 2014. Rutgers is expected to follow suit by Tuesday, splitting from the Big East and making it an even 14 schools in the Big Ten.
Extension keeps Crean under contract for rest of decade
The IU coach's base salary will go from approximately $2.52 million per year to $3.16 million. The deal also includes performance bonuses based on Academic Progress Rate scores, Graduation Success Rate scores and the team's GPA.
NCAA approves tougher sanctions for rule-breakers
The NCAA passed a package of sweeping changes Tuesday intended to crack down hard on rule-breaking schools and coaches.
NCAA’s moves over betting ‘ludicrous,’ N.J. official says
The NCAA is "ludicrous and hypocritical" for moving five championship games out of New Jersey next year because the state plans to offer legalized sports betting, a spokesman for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said.
Notre Dame revival brings revenue bonanza to football foes
Notre Dame’s football squad is undefeated after five games for the first time in a decade. That’s good news for their opponents: The team is even more of a draw on the road for fans and sponsors.
A10 schools already hyping Butler match-ups
The Atlantic 10 is wasting little time marketing its newest member—the Butler Bulldogs.
Horizon League fights on after loss of Butler
The Indianapolis-based Horizon League says it is “energized” about its future, despite losing its most famous member—Butler University.
Big-time college sports leadership still a man’s world
Forty years after the U.S. government’s Title IX law required equal athletic opportunities for men and women, just four women are in charge at the 120 sports departments in NCAA football’s top tier.
NCAA committee endorses new penalty structure
Nearly a year after promising to impose harsher sanctions on the most egregious rule-breakers, NCAA leaders endorsed a proposal Thursday that would make schools subject to the same crippling penalties just handed to Penn State.
NCAA hit innocents
The NCAA president and executive board overstepped their authority by imposing very harsh penalties on the Penn State football program and by extension on the entire university.
BENNER: Penn State punishment won’t get to root of our problem
As I surveyed the reaction to the NCAA’s decision to crush the football program at Penn State University, one thought kept coming to me in two entirely different ways: What if it had been my son?
IU followers could learn from Penn State players
Penn State football players have quickly grasped a fundamental truth that will help put the school on the road to recovery. It took many IU followers years to figure it out. Some still haven't got it.
Paterno’s fall from grace provides valuable lesson
Joe Paterno and other Penn State officials inflicted far more damage on the university than the NCAA by not telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. And by not telling it as soon as they knew it.
Penn State sanctions ‘watershed moment’ for NCAA
The National Collegiate Athletic Association’s swift and severe punishment of Penn State University over a sexual abuse scandal is a bold departure from its normal operating procedure.
NCAA hammers Penn State with major sanctions
The NCAA on Monday morning slammed Penn State with an unprecedented series of penalties, including a $60 million fine and the loss of all coach Joe Paterno's victories from 1998-2011, in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
BENNER: NCAA should tread lightly with Penn State football
Instead of shutting down Penn State football, why not use that economic engine to do some enormous good?
BENNER: New football playoff will create more problems than it solves
Anyone who things the new four-team playoff will quiet the controversies needs a reality check.
Despite playoff, college football title still tarnished
If college football truly wants to take all the tarnish off its national championship crown, it’s going to have to scrap the bowl system and construct a playoff that includes all the contenders. And even a few pretenders.