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(PhatzRadio / AP) — The NCAA’s Division I Board of Directors on Thursday suspended the rule adopted in January allowing football coaches to communicate with recruits via unlimited text messages and phone calls. The NCAA cited more than 75 override requests and a Rules Working Group recommendation as providing impetus for reconsidering the looser restrictions. [...]
Streaking Louisville strengthened its candidacy for a top seed in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament by winning the Big East tournament this weekend.(Photo: Debby Wong, USA TODAY Sports) (PhatzRadio) March Madness is afoot. The teams have been picked. Please print your the bracket. With Louisville being the No.1 overall seed, this year seems that any [...]
Coral Gables (AP) — One of the investigators who worked the NCAA’s inquiry of Miami athletics wrote a letter on former booster and convicted felon Nevin Shapiro’s behalf just days before he was sentenced two years ago. In the same letter, dated June 3, 2011, Ameen Najjar even suggested that the NCAA could eventually hire [...]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Matt Scott watched helplessly as Nevada kicked a field goal to pad its lead. The Arizona quarterback had already thrown two interceptions, and now needed two quick scores and some luck — in a hurry, too — to somehow win the New Mexico Bowl. Scott even admitted he didn’t have “positive” [...]
(PhatzRadio / SI Feature) — Every time I click on Twitter, my mentions blend into the same message. Every team in the top 12 is overrated. No one played anybody good. Every conference stinks. Fans of a particular team can punch holes in another team’s schedule/best win/worst loss, and guess what? They’re all correct. Is [...]
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — NCAA president Mark Emmert says the sanctions levied on Penn State for the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal dealt with the behavior of university leaders and whether or not the school handled the allegations appropriately. Emmert told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday in Chicago that the “fact [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) Southern California athletic director Pat Haden says USC will investigate a Los Angeles Times report claiming two Trojans athletes received gifts from an employee of the Los Angeles County assessor’s office. The Times reported Saturday that former tailback Joe McKnight and former men’s basketball player Davon Jefferson apparently received a car, an [...]
(PhatzRadio / SI) —- Tyrann Mathieu is ineligible to return to play for LSU at any point in the future, despite earlier reports saying he could sit out this season and play for the Tigers in 2013. LSU senior associate athletic director for NCAA compliance Bo Bahnsen told Gannett Louisiana late Monday that Mathieu did [...]
(PhatzRadio / USA Today) — Ohio State athletics director Gene Smith wants everyone to know the school is not facing more sanctions from the NCAA. Smith issued a statement following an article in the Ohio State’s student newspaper, The Lantern, which quoted him as saying the school was facing 12 NCAA violations and it was [...]
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College Basketball AP Sources: Ex-Miami coaches know of allegations
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Two former Miami assistant coaches have been told they will be charged with “unethical conduct” when the NCAA presents the Hurricanes’ athletic department with its notice of allegations, said two people familiar with the situation. The people spoke to The Associated Press Monday on condition of anonymity because neither the [...]