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WASHINGTON (AP) — John Thompson, the imposing Hall of Famer who turned Georgetown into a “Hoya Paranoia” powerhouse and became the first Black coach to lead a team to the NCAA men’s basketball championship, has died. He was 78.

Several Dem. U.S. senators submitted a bill that would set federal rules for allowing student-athletes to make money on college sports.

Columnist Drew Magary took the occasion of his latest San Francisco Chronicle editorial to insist that the crisis caused by the coronavirus is the excuse we need to end college football forever.

“I think football’s making a tragic mistake,” he said.

College football players have organized to launch a “We Want To Play” campaign to urge universities not to shut down their 2020 season.

The website Outsports is outing female athletes who signed onto a letter asking the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to protect women’s rights by refusing to allow biological men who identify as women to compete in female college sports.

Save Women’s Sports sent a letter to the NCAA opposing a boycott of Idaho because a state law limiting women’s sports to biological females.

Sen. Mike Lee pressed president of the NCAA Mark Emmert about its policy to allow transgender women to compete against biological women.

An organization of college basketball coaches is urging schools to dump the SAT and ACT standardized tests, because they claim the tests are “racist.”

NCAA president Mark Emmert noted on Thursday that he is discouraged over the return of college sports.

LSU football coach Ed Orgeron said that the country “needs football,” during Vice President Mike Pence’s visit to the school on Tuesday.

The University of Texas announced a series of steps Monday intended to make itself more welcoming to its Black students but stopped short of shelving “The Eyes of Texas” song that a number of athletes have said needs to go because it has racist undertones.

The comparison is stark between how Oklahoma State University coach Mike Gundy was treated by cancel culture for wearing a t-shirt, and how DeSean Jackson was treated by the NFL for posting anti-Semitic quotes attributed to Adolf Hitler on Instagram.

The Big Ten Conference announced Thursday it will not play nonconference games in football and several other sports this fall, the most dramatic move yet by a power conference because of the coronavirus pandemic.

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams has urged people to wear masks, in part, to pave the way for a return to college sports.

Mike Gundy, the Oklahoma State football coach who faced strong backlash last month after being spotted wearing an OAN shirt, has agreed to accept a $1 million pay cut and a one-year reduction in contract length.

University of Texas linebacker DeMarvion Overshown announced he is boycotting the team unless social justice demands are met by school officials.

Former Ole Miss guard Blake Hinson claims that the Confederate emblem on the Mississippi State flag played a part in his reasons for leaving.

A growing number of Kansas State student athletes have vowed not to practice or play for the school unless students who post things which “openly display racism” on social media, are expelled.

University of Alabama coach Nick Saban joined his players for a video pushing the Black Lives Matter message on Thursday.

Football coaches from Ole Miss and Mississippi State are joining an effort to demand that the State of Mississippi remove the Confederate symbol from the state’s flag.

Mississippi State running back Kylin Hill claims that he will not play football at the school unless the State of Mississippi removes the Confederate battle flag from its state banner.

The NCAA on Friday expanded its policy banning states with prominent Confederate symbols from hosting its championship events, one day after the Southeastern Conference made a similar declaration aimed at the Mississippi state flag.

The chief of America’s premier college football conference just sent a stern message to the State of Mississippi: Get the confederate flag out of your state flag, or risk not hosting another SEC Championship game again.

Former University of Colorado player Alfred Williams has revived an accusation that Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy called him the n-word back in 1989, when Gundy was still a college student playing for Oklahoma State.

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) has bowed to pressure from woke activists and removed its Hey Reb! statue, from its prominent position at their school.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The University of Virginia is changing the logos it uses for its athletics teams just two months after they were unveiled after criticism that a design element referred to the school’s history with slavery.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) on Friday heaped praise on student-athletes who have participated in the recent protests sweeping the nation and ultimately called on member schools to “assist students in registering to vote in the upcoming national election” and halt athletics activity on Election Day so athletes can head to the polls.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed into law a bill that will allow college athletes in the state to earn money from endorsement deals.

LGBT activists and groups that support their agenda are urging the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to not allow sporting events to be held in Idaho, after lawmakers in that state passed a bill that limits female sports in high school and college to those who are biologically female.

Former USC running back and Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush, believes that the NCAA endorsed plan to pay college athletes for use of their name, image, or likeness, “is going to destroy some people.”

Universities are beginning to cut sports programs as budgets continue to be devastated by the coronavirus. However, one professor thinks that those schools are using the pandemic as an excuse to cut sports programs they wanted to get rid of anyway.

For those anxiously anticipating the beginning of college football, you got good news today. The Southeastern Conference approved voluntary on-campus workouts for student-athletes beginning on June 8th.

Everyone wants college football to return in the fall. Though, some are willing to do more than others to make that happen.

Female athletes in high school and colleges are at a disadvantage when they must compete against biological men who “identify” as women.

The loss of television and ad revenue from the suspension of sports due to the coronavirus, will end up costing at least $12 billion, according to a recent analysis conducted for ESPN.