The NCAA today selected former U.S. Senator George Mitchell as the independent Athletics Integrity Monitor at Penn State. Mitchell’s five-year appointment begins immediately. As Athletics Integrity Monitor, Mitchell will evaluate Penn...
The NCAA Division III National Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and the NCAA Division III Management Council led a softball event for about 30 Special Olympics athletes from Hamilton County on July 22. About 20 SAAC members, 15...
The NCAA Executive Committee elected Michigan State President Lou Anna Simon as its next chair, effective immediately. Simon replaces Oregon State President Ed Ray, whose term on the Executive Committee expired at the end of the group’s...
Five student-athletes representing all three membership divisions have been honored with NCAA Sportsmanship Awards for notable displays of sporting behavior. The Association also recognized Belmont men’s basketball coach Rick Byrd with the...
By Greg Johnson The Playing Rules Oversight Panel during its conference call July 19 approved proposals aimed at increasing offensive opportunities in ice hockey next season. Among the changes is to allow some displacement of the goal...
By Michelle Brutlag Hosick A vital part of the work of the Rules and Enforcement working groups has been collecting feedback from the membership about both the concepts and the more developed ideas the groups are considering. The feedback...
By Gary Brown Coaches in just about any college sport these days are responsible for more than just X’s and O’s. They’re also accountable for marketing their programs, especially for Olympic or non-revenue sports that don’t get the bulk of...
By Greg Johnson NCAA.org Members of the Division II Student-Athlete Advisory Committee recently got a chance to see how much joy their fundraising can create when they met 13-year-old Seth Kussow, who was granted a wish in January to...
By Gary Brown Division III Management Council members at their meeting on Monday agreed to submit a new legislative proposal regarding sickle cell trait status that emphasizes an educational component and a phased-in confirmation approach...
By Gary Brown In addition to discussing concepts that shape a 2013 Convention proposal related to sickle cell trait confirmation , the Division III Management Council at its meeting on Monday and Tuesday reviewed other legislation on track...
By Gary Brown The Division III Management Council has approved a new format for the men’s basketball championship this coming year to accommodate the Division III championship game being played in conjunction with the 75th men’s basketball...
By Michelle Brutlag Hosick Eight months after she graduated from Cornell with a consumer economics degree, Noreen Morris was working out of an office building in downtown Boston, making 60 to 80 phone calls a day to try to convince people...
By perpetuating a "football first" culture that ultimately enabled serial child sexual abuse to occur, The Pennsylvania State University leadership failed to value and uphold institutional integrity, resulting in a breach of the NCAA...
$60 million fine. The NCAA imposes a $60 million fine, equivalent to the approximate average of one year's gross revenues from the Penn State football program, to be paid over a five-year period beginning in 2012 into an endowment for...
Executive Committee Chair, Oregon State President Ed Ray The historically unprecedented actions by the NCAA today are warranted by the conspiracy of silence that was maintained at the highest levels of the university in reckless and...
NCAA Constitution References | Board Executive Committee Motion The Executive Committee acts on behalf of the entire Association and implements policies to resolve core issues, pursuant to its authority under the NCAA constitution and...
2.1 Scope of Responsibility. The institution's responsibility for the conduct of its intercollegiate athletics program includes responsibility for the actions of its staff members and for the actions of any other individual or organization...
Due to the unprecedented nature of the Penn State sanctions, the NCAA will provide appropriate and immediate relief of some NCAA rules for all eligible football student-athletes who wish to transfer to another school. Several Division I...
The historically unprecedented actions by the NCAA today are warranted by the conspiracy of silence that was maintained at the highest levels of the university in reckless and callous disregard for the children. There is incredible...
Q. The Paterno family issued a statement yesterday calling the Freeh Report pretty much an indictment, a charging document, not necessarily a verdict. Don't you usually conduct your own investigation, and why did you rely so heavily on the...
By Greg Johnson The Baseball Rules Committee at its three-day meeting that concluded Wednesday recommended that umpires be allowed to conference and determine whether a call on a batted ball should be changed from foul to fair. If approved...
By Brian Burnsed NCAA.org Ryan Thacher, 22, carries aspirations that could fill two lives. He plans to cram them all into the one he’s been given. Millions of children around the world grow up dreaming of a professional tennis career –...
By Bobby Lee For NCAA.org Whether the site of competition is Albion College’s Sprankle-Sprandel Stadium or the Detroit Tigers’ Comerica Park, Devin Burnett is used to hitting. A starting free safety for Albion’s football team, Burnett is...
By Gary Brown The adage of death and taxes being the only certainties in life could probably take on a third conviction if it was up to presidents and chancellors – and that is that college students in the main like to drink. At least that...
By Michelle Brutlag Hosick The process and timing for both penalizing and determining postseason eligibility of teams who fail to meet academic benchmarks will remain the same, the Committee on Academic Performance decided, using the most...
