By Ty Halpin The NCAA Football Rules Committee took steps to further protect student-athletes by proposing a rule to eject players who target and contact defenseless players above the shoulders. The committee, which met Monday-Wednesday,...
Below is a statement by Lou Anna K. Simon, executive committee chair and Michigan State University president on the NCAA regulatory pathway and Mark Emmert’s leadership: “The NCAA Executive Committee continues to support the association’s...
Champion Digital | By Gary Brown Thousands of people line the streets and bridges. They parade down pathways parting tents touting “Chowda in a Bread Bowl,” hot chocolate and cheese fries. An announcer’s voice reverberates results. The...
Bruce Rasmussen, the director of athletics at Creighton University, has been appointed to the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee. “It’s a tremendous honor to be named to the men’s basketball committee,” Rasmussen said. “The...
By Greg Johnson The NCAA Football Rules Committee will examine ways to enhance player safety when it meets Monday through Wednesday in Indianapolis. Topics on the agenda include targeting the head-and-neck area of defenseless players,...
By Greg Johnson Several rules changes are planned this season for the spring sports of men’s lacrosse, baseball, men’s volleyball, men’s and women’s track and field, and softball. The rules committees for each of those sports met last...
By David Pickle NCAA.org Nobody needs to tell Katie Fitzgerald about the importance of “team.” She’s been a team member from Day 1. Those teams have included family, youth sports, high school sports and now St. Cloud State, where she is a...
By Gary K. Johnson Almost 49 million fans attended college football games at all 644 NCAA football-playing schools during the 2012-13 season, and one conference that topped 7 million fans for the first time ever. The attendance of 48,958,...
The NCAA today asked courts in Pennsylvania to dismiss two lawsuits that are seeking to invalidate some or all of the sanctions against Penn State University. Pennsylvania politicians filed both suits, and our filings today demonstrate...
Occidental College failed to monitor its women’s volleyball program, according to the findings by the NCAA Division III Committee on Infractions. The former head volleyball coach provided impermissible benefits to student-athletes and...
The NCAA today asked courts in Pennsylvania to dismiss two lawsuits that are seeking to invalidate some or all of the sanctions against Penn State University. Pennsylvania politicians filed both suits, and our filings today demonstrate...
The NCAA on Wednesday provided an update regarding the external review of its enforcement program. “NCAA President Mark Emmert announced on January 23, an external review of the NCAA enforcement staff’s actions related to the University of...
By Gary Brown NCAA.org Marquette Athletics Director Larry Williams is a high achiever. He has to be to keep up with his family. Williams, a four-year letter-winner in football at Notre Dame with nine years directing athletics programs at...
The Louisville men’s basketball team drew curious eyes last spring when they stepped onto the Superdome floor for the Final Four in New Orleans, looking prepared for boxing practice rather than a hoops shoot-around. Several players wore...
Two former University of Southern Mississippi men’s tennis coaches were cited for unethical conduct for promising impermissible benefits to student-athletes, engaging in academic misconduct. Also, one of the coaches directed a student-...
By Greg Johnson When Dennie Poppe left his hometown of Anchor, Ill., to become a football student-athlete at Missouri in 1966, little did he know it was only the start of an adulthood that would always associate him with college athletics...
By Brian Hendrickson The NCAA’s Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports (CSMAS) voted at its December meeting to set the threshold for a positive marijuana test at NCAA championships at a level that is consistent...
The NCAA national office has uncovered an issue of improper conduct within its enforcement program that occurred during the University of Miami investigation. Former NCAA enforcement staff members worked with the criminal defense attorney...
By Michelle Brutlag Hosick Division I women’s basketball coaches will be recruiting student-athletes under a new set of rules in the future. The Board of Directors on Saturday adopted a new recruiting model that includes changes in rules...
Division III delegates were 13-for-13 at the Jan. 19 business session, approving all of the legislative proposals to wrap up four days of governance meetings at the 2013 NCAA Convention in Grapevine, Texas. Only two of the votes were close...
Champion Digital | By Brian Burnsed Dalton Herendeen once hid in the water. As a child, he dreaded family trips to the beach. He loathed the gawking and the stares that always seemed to accompany the summer sun and the ocean breeze. So he...
By David Pickle Story Highlights Division II delegates approved 10 legislative proposals at their business session Saturday. Delegates defeated three proposals, including one that would have deregulated campus recruiting visits and another...
By Gary Brown Story Highlights Division III members considered 13 legislative proposals at the Convention business session on Saturday. Among those approved was one that expands the realm of contact to prospects to include private...
