
Even NCAA President Questions Number of Bowl Games
NCAA President Mark Emmert on Wednesday questioned the rationale of holding so many bowl games.

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.”

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