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Female Athletes’ Concussion Symptoms May Be Overlooked
A new study finds that, after a concussion, female athletes often have symptoms that can be mistaken for other conditions.
As TCU Joins the Big East, the Conference Shuffle Continues
Conference realignment reshapes college football as the Mountain West and the WAC lose, and gain, members (with an exclusive interactive graphic showing changes since 1989).
9 Athletes Are Among Newly Named Rhodes Scholars
Of the 32 award winners from the United States, nine are college athletes, including two first-time honorees at their institutions.
NCAA Will Not Rush to Judgment on Cam Newton, Emmert Says
The media frenzy around the Auburn quarterback may be intense, but the NCAA has a responsibility not to rush its investigation of him, says the association’s president.
Southeastern Conference Coaches Travel in Style
TV exposure gives the Southeastern Conference a big lift in recruiting, but my colleague Paul Fain found another way that SEC programs keep a leg up on the competition: owning their own airplanes.
Georgia Athletics Pays for Professorship
The university’s athletic association agrees to underwrite a professorship in biological sciences.
Mark Emmert on NCAA Rules, Online Courses, and Telling the Division III Story
In one of his first major speeches since becoming the NCAA’s new president last month, Mark Emmert commented to faculty athletics representatives about some of the pressing issues in college sports.
Leaders in College Sports Remain Largely White and Male
Of the 120 athletic directors at the nation’s most-competitive college sports programs, all but 19 are white men, a new report says.
At Williams-Amherst Matchup, Making History of a Different Sort
Aaron Kelton, the first African-American head football coach in the New England Small College Athletic Conference, gears up for the Williams-Amherst game.
NCAA Puts U. of Michigan on Probation for Rules Violations in Football Program
The association says the university failed to monitor the program.
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