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Nancy Armour, USA Today’s extremely liberal sports columnist, is not satisfied that the State of North Carolina bent to the will of militant gay activists and began a repeal of its bathroom law meant to protect vulnerable women and children from predators. For her tastes, the repeal effort doesn’t go far enough, and she has now written a piece demanding that the NCAA continue to punish the Tar Heel State despite the fact that its legislature bent to liberal pressure to address the law.

North Carolina will repeal its HB2 law, in response to threats from the NCAA to remove championship and sporting events from the state.

NCAA referee John Higgins was concerned enough over the death threats he received from upset Wildcats fans that he reported it all to the police, according to reports.

CBS/Turner sportscaster Ernie Johnson thinks he knows why his network’s coverage of NCAA March Madness is such a hit: the left-wing politics have been left outside the broadcast booth door.

About 40,000 college football and basketball players will not need to submit a claim to receive a portion of the $208.7 million the NCAA will pay to settle a federal class-action lawsuit that claimed the value of their athletic scholarships was illegally capped.

Despite the complete financial failure of the boycott against the state, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is once again warning the State of North Carolina that if it doesn’t repeal its year-old bathroom law, the league will cancel all tournament games. And this time the NCAA says it will boycott the Tar Heel State until the year 2022.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Top-seeded Villanova was bounced from the NCAA Tournament by eighth-seeded Wisconsin, which overcame foul trouble for two of its stars in the second half Saturday to upset the defending champions 65-62 in the East region.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The Fighting Irish avoided the dreaded upset from a 12th seed in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Barely.

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A new California law effectively bans state funds from paying for travel to states such as North Carolina that have enacted bathroom laws that require people to use a public restroom that corresponds to their birth sex, and other religious

Villanova is the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament to start its bid to become the first repeat national champion since Florida in 2006-07.

With an abundance of madness swirling around him in February, Donald Trump has decided to forego the madness of March. President Trump declined ESPN’s invitation to fill out an NCAA bracket on a March Madness televised special, the way Barack Obama had done before him.

California’s new travel ban against Tennessee — and other conservative states — could force dozens of basketball teams from California’s public colleges and universities to miss the annual NCAA “March Madness” Tournament.

Buoyed by several sports leagues punishing the State of North Carolina over its bathroom bill, the National Football League now warns that it will boycott the State of Texas, blocking future Super Bowl games, if Texas enacts a similar law.

NEW YORK (AP) — Duke and North Carolina State were among the top 16 projected seeds the NCAA revealed Monday for the women’s basketball tournament in March, making them potential hosts in a state that’s lost several sports events because of a divisive law.

If the State of North Carolina doesn’t repeal their HB2 bathroom ordinance in the next 11 days, the NCAA has threatened to extend their ban on holding championship sports events in the Tarheel State for an additional five years.

An Iowa lawmaker is working in the state legislature to stop the University of Iowa from playing on Friday nights because he feels it conflicts with high school football programs across the state.

Only days after the NCAA voted to impose the “Michigan Rule,” Wolverines Coach Jim Harbaugh announced that the team will hold an April spring practice in Rome, Italy.

Texas is one of a list of states looking to institute their own transgender bathroom restrictions, quite regardless of the guff North Carolina took for its own bill last year. Predictably, just as it did against North Carolina, the NCAA and the Big 12 Conference look to act against Texas over the law.

The NCAA would like the State Legislature of North Carolina to know that they actively support attempts to subvert the will of the people.

The NCAA is ordering Notre Dame to vacate wins from its 2012 and 2013 football seasons because a student athletic trainer committed academic misconduct by doing substantial course work for two players and giving six others impermissible academic extra benefits.

The president of the University of Notre Dame warns the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) that it can’t mandate what morals he and his college will follow just because it controls college sports.

Gov. Pat McCrory calls the move another “economic threat” and “political retaliation” toward his state as it challenges the Obama administration’s government overreach.

The NCAA removed seven previously scheduled championship events from North Carolina for the upcoming academic year because of the state’s bathroom law.

The days of “no pass, no play” are no more. These days, some schools dump “D” grades to allow high school athletes to play sports. One Texas school district says they signed onto this brave new world where “D” is the new “C”, to level the playing field.

The NCAA board of governors passed a resolution this week requiring that sites hosting or bidding on its events—from the Men’s and Women’s Final Fours to educational events—demonstrate that gays, lesbians, and transgenders don’t feel discriminated against in their locales.

Just ahead of the 2016 NFL Draft, first-round hopeful Laremy Tunsil got some news he probably did not welcome. His stepfather is once again suing him, this time for “emotional distress.”

State legislators from across America are fighting back against the LGBT agenda and their activist’s retaliation against states over religious liberty legislation. Forty Texas state legislators joined with over one-hundred legislators nationally in writing to business leaders who are threatening action against states who have passed such bills.

On Tuesday the NCAA announced it had inked an eight-year deal with CBS and the Turner cable network to broadcast the NCAA Tournament all the way through the 2032 season.

Earlier this month, Villanova’s Kris Jenkins knocked down a deep shot at the buzzer to give his Wildcats the victory over North Carolina in college basketball’s national championship game. ESPN’s Andy Katz recently visited Villanova and had Ryan Arcidiacono, Daniel Ochefu and

The NCAA Division I Council has decided to put a three-year moratorium on bowl games after a season seeing teams with losing records getting into playoffs.

The lawyer for Yale basketball team captain Jack Montague now says the player may sue the school over his expulsion for the alleged sexual assault a female student. The dismissal was “excessive” and Montague was made a “whipping boy” for the assumed “rape culture” that supposedly haunts higher education in America, the lawyer said.

NCAA President Mark Emmert on Wednesday questioned the rationale of holding so many bowl games.

The Big 12 sent a cease and desist letter to ESPN demanding that it stop using images of Baylor and TCU football players in an advertisement selling the new Star Wars movie, a report says.

The prospect of as many as five teams with 5-7 records playing in the postseason over the next month moves conference executives to urge the NCAA to decimate games diluting the value of bowls.

The University of North Dakota, denied the use of its “Fighting Sioux” nickname because the NCAA banned its members from using Native American imagery in 2005, revealed a new nickname: the “Fighting Hawks.”