A prostitute who wrote a book charging that a University of Louisville employee hired her for “sex parties” for recruits will now meet with the NCAA to discuss her charges, a report says.
A student at the University of Louisville is suing self-proclaimed “escort” Katina Powell after she charged in her book that she was paid by a member of the basketball program’s staff to have sex with basketball players and recruits.
In the wake of multiple investigations in states across the country over allegations of “insider trading,” the NCAA has imposed a ban on advertising for the fantasy sports betting sites FanDuel and DraftKings.
The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) may restrict colleges from compensating athletes beyond the cost of attendance.
A federal appeals court struck down a lower court’s ruling ordering colleges and universities pay college athletes $5,000 a year for the right to use their likenesses and names in sports department merchandising.
The NCAA on Tuesday suspended Southern Methodist University head basketball coach Larry Brown for nine games.
John Calipari, head coach of the University of Kentucky Wildcats, doesn’t want any part of the negativity surrounding Pope Francis’ visit to the nation’s capital. In fact, Calipari was so pleased to be headed to D.C. to see the Pope that he filled his Twitter feed with his excitement.
The iconic Spirit of America Goodyear blimp has floated off into the sunset of retirement, to be replaced eventually by the technologically superior semi-rigid airship, Wingfoot One.
U.S. Judge Nathanael Cousins, at a San Jose hearing on Wednesday, called the ground-breaking case against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) an “adventurous and risky lawsuit.” The judge signaled he is likely to award the $50 million requested by plaintiffs’ lawyer Hausfeld LLP, who won what Cousins called “the most significant antitrust case of the era.”
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban says that the “horrible” state of college basketball hurts the NBA by hampering the growth of college players and making them unprepared for the pros.
Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) took to Twitter after Duke’s 68-63 victory in Monday’s NCAA Championship Game to voice her complaint with how the NCAA system works.
Rihanna headlined the March Madness Music Festival in Indianapolis on Saturday, where she debuted her long-awaited new song “American Oxygen” and unloaded with both barrels on Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).
Breitbart Sport caught up with Oklahoma City Thunder forward and former Duke standout Kyle Singler while in Memphis to discuss the NCAA Men’s Final Four.
In wake of the Indiana legislature’s announcement that they would amend the controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), NCAA president Mark Emmert expressed that his organization will determine where it will host future championships based on the content of the new law.
On Monday, the four men’s Final Four coaches, John Calipari of the University of Kentucky, Tom Izzo of Michigan State University, Bo Ryan of the University of Wisconsin, and Mike Krzyzewski of Duke University, released a joint statement regarding Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).
On Monday’s broadcast of “Olbermann” on ESPN2, host Keith Olbermann responded to the news of Indiana’s new Religious Freedom Act, which is alleged to allow businesses to refuse to service to homosexuals according to some voices on the left. According
Dave Zirin, Sports Editor for the Nation and host of “Edge of Sports Radio” on Sirius/XM, argued the NCAA should move the Final Four from Indiana over the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act on Monday’s “MSNBC Live.” “The NCAA, if
Now that Indiana Governor Mike Pence has signed a new law that allows business owners to practice their religious faiths, gay rights supporters have threatened that the Hoosier State should not be allowed to host any major sporting events as long as the law is in place.
A number of Hollywood celebrities have taken aim at Indiana Gov. Mike Pence after the governor signed a religious objections bill into state law on Thursday.
College basketball’s win-or-go-home NCAA Tournament rakes in surprisingly fewer viewers than a string of “meaningless” college football bowl games.
President Barack Obama recently sat down with Huffington Post for an interview, and voiced some of his concerns regarding NCAA rules and policies. Obama currently has a niece playing for Princeton’s women’s basketball team. In the interview, Obama mentioned scholarships
At the White House Science fair this morning, one of the contestants wished President Barack Obama “good luck” on his NCAA basketball bracket for March Madness. “It’s already blown up,” Obama replied wryly. “It’s over. It’s over.” Obama picked number
Dave Zirin, Sports Editor for the Nation magazine, ripped the NCAA as “rank exploitation” and a “sham” on Saturday’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” on MSNBC. “Who are we really tuning in to watch? Who is wearing the corporate logos as they run
The South Carolina chapter of the NAACP expresses outrage at the NCAA because the collegiate athletic governing body scheduled part of the women’s basketball tournament in the first Southern state to secede, where the capitol still flies the Confederate flag.
After an eight-year-long investigation into academic misconduct alleged to have been perpetrated by coaches, staffers, professors, and administrators at Syracuse University, the school has announced that head coach Jim Boeheim will retire in three years.
Last year, it was Southern Methodist. This time around it’s Temple. Teams are sensing an anti-American sentiment coming from the NCAA selection committee. And we’re not talking about anti-Americanism in the sense of the flag-grabbing students at UC-Irvine.
On Sunday’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” on HBO, host John Oliver blasted the NCAA for not compensating its student athletes with anything besides food and a free education. The debate on whether or not student athletes should be
Syracuse University, as part of its self-imposed postseason prohibition, banned Otto the Orange from the Atlantic Coast Conference’s annual mascot basketball game on Thursday. Of the ACC’s 15 team mascots, Otto was the only one absent during halftime of the
A new estimation by the American Gaming Association claims that upwards to 40 million Americans will fill out brackets as the NCAA tournament season begins. The group also estimates that $9 billion will be wagered on the games, more than
The NCAA has punished Syracuse University after a multiyear investigation into the school’s athletic programs found violations of eligibility standards.
Syracuse University has announced that it will self-impose a ban on postseason Orange basketball as punishment for “past mistakes.”
Penn State allegedly seeks the restoration of the 111 wins stripped from Joe Paterno’s record as a result of the Jerry Sandusky child-abuse scandal.
Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby says the conference won’t expand and is happy with ten teams.
