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NCAA President Mark Emmert backed a proposal to allow conferences to increase grants to student athletes by $ 2,000.

In the debut episode of Sports Blitz Now — the brand new Huffington Post sports radio show — Jordan Schultz and the guys broke down all the marquee matchups in college football this weekend, ranked their power 10 NFL teams and offered plenty of fantasy advice.

It’s 2020 and the look of athletic conferences throughout the NCAA has dramatically changed with the emergence of what is now being called the football Mega-Conferences.

The fact that football and basketball student-athletes are mostly minorities, and therefore more likely than the population as a whole to be impoverished, is an indictment of the failure and lack of fairness of our educational system.

 NCAA President Mark Emmert believes the “death penalty” should be an option for college sports’ most egregious.

The NCAA put Georgia Tech on four years of probation, fined the school $ 100,000 and stripped its ACC title game win from the 2009 football …

Former USC football coach Pete Carroll criticized the NCAA in an interview with Mark Willard of 710 ESPN on Sunday, one week after the Trojans were stripped of their 2004 national championship. The Seattle Seahawks coach said that it’s “unfortunate” to see current USC players getting penalized for violations that were made when they “were [...]

On the same day coach Jim Tressel resigned in the wake of an NCAA investigation, The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that the NCAA and Ohio State are looking into whether star quarterback Terrelle Pryor received cars and other extra benefits. Pryor, who will be a senior this fall, has already been interviewed at least once [...]

Former USC assistant coach Todd McNair filed suit against the NCAA on Friday, alleging that the collegiate athletics governing body wrongfully caused him to lose his job with the Trojans because of punishment handed down last June in the Reggie Bush case.

Bob Knight criticized the NCAA and called the rule Ohio State football players broke when they sold and traded their personal memorabilia “idiotic.” The former Indiana and Texas Tech basketball coach, and an Ohio State alum, spoke to reporters Monday night before the Henry P. Iba Citizen Athlete Awards ceremony, where he was scheduled to [...]