Student athletes at Brevard Community College will have more choices in 2013. The Titans are adding women’s tennis and men’s soccer programs to its roster of varsity sports. BCC already fields teams in baseball, men’s and women’s basketball, softball, golf, women’s soccer and volleyball, and has been gaining state and national recognition for their achievements. ...Read More
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy says it is time for the University of Connecticut and Boston College to put hard feelings behind them and work to re-establish an important New England rivalry on the football field and basketball court. In an interview with The Associated Press Thursday, Malloy, an alumnus of Boston College, said ...Read More
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The Big East’s interim commissioner said Wednesday the conference is working to dispel any perception that it is unraveling following the ouster of John Marinatto. Joseph Bailey III, a former chief executive with the Miami Dolphins, held his first conference call with reporters on Wednesday, two days after Marinatto resigned amid ...Read More
5:38 a.m. EDT, May 9, 2012 Former Notre Dame men’s basketball walk-on guard Danny White has been named the new athletic director at the University of Buffalo. White is the senior associate athletics director at the University of Mississippi. Since 2009, White also has served as executive director of Ole Miss’ alumni association. White, 32, ...Read More
5:38 a.m. EDT, May 9, 2012 Former Notre Dame men’s basketball walk-on guard Danny White has been named the new athletic director at the University of Buffalo. White is the senior associate athletics director at the University of Mississippi. Since 2009, White also has served as executive director of Ole Miss’ alumni association. White, 32, ...Read More
ScienceDaily (May 8, 2012) — In the eyes of young college men, it’s more unethical to use steroids to get an edge in sports than it is to use prescription stimulants to enhance one’s grades, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association. And students who had themselves used stimulants without a prescription ...Read More
ScienceDaily (May 8, 2012) — In the eyes of young college men, it’s more unethical to use steroids to get an edge in sports than it is to use prescription stimulants to enhance one’s grades, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association. And students who had themselves used stimulants without a prescription ...Read More
HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Gow Broadcasting, L.L.C., who launched Yahoo! Sports Radio as part of a partnership with Yahoo! Sports (http://sports.yahoo.com/), announced a new weekly radio show featuring two of the industry’s leading sports journalists Dan Wetzel and Pat Forde on Yahoo! Sports Radio. The show will bring two of the biggest names from Yahoo! Sports together ...Read More
Academic change is coming to college sports. And if you ask me, it’s the good kind of change. Starting in 2016, the toughest initial-eligibility requirements ever for student-athletes will be hitting a college campus near you, ESPN’s Mitch Sherman writes. Under the 2016 mandate, incoming freshmen will have to graduate from high school with 16 ...Read More
Travis Rice in Wanaka, New Zealand for the 2010 World Heli Challenge. (Image credit: Getty Images AsiaPac via @daylife) The commercial value of action sports stars is nothing new. Ski legend Glen Plake endorsed K2 skis shortly after starring in Greg Stump’s 1988 film, The Blizzard of AAHHH’s. Thousands of skiers, snowboarders, skateboarders, surfers and ...Read More