The NCAA handed Penn State University an unprecedented punishment Monday morning due to the university’s failure to properly report sexual abuse allegations against one if its former assistant football coaches. The university must pay $60 million to organizations that focus on the detection, prevention and treatment of child sexual assault. The Nittany Lions are also [...] Read More
In 1972, Title IX was passed into federal law, prohibiting sex discrimination in all aspects of education, including athletics. 2012 marks the 40th anniversary of the passing of Title IX, but has much been done to bring equality to men’s and women’s athletics? Since Title IX’s implementation in 1972, there has been a large increase [...] Read More
I do not like the current Bowl Championship Series model. I never have. That’s why it pains me to defend this year’s BCS national championship game between #1 LSU and #2 Alabama. I want a plus-one. Or even better, taking the top eight in the BCS standings and having an elite eight bracket, which would [...] Read More
From a sport marketing viewpoint, it appears as though the scandal at Penn State has dramatically affected its merchandise sales. It wouldn’t be the first time a school has seen a dip in licensed merchandise sales as a result of unfavorable events, but the decrease was drastic, according to sources in an Associated Press story. [...] Read More
Has the issue of diversity in football leadership been sidelined? The movement of FBS teams to different conferences has garnered most of the media’s attention lately, but what is more imperative is the diversity among the leaders of these teams. This past year brought six new coaches of color into the FBS, bringing the total [...] Read More
A leader without moral actions isn’t a real leader. That’s the essence of the current situation at Penn State University, where the campus and community is engrossed in arguably the most morally reprehensible story in college athletics (and there have been plenty). By now everyone is likely familiar with the back story of former Penn [...] Read More
Boola Boola vs. moola moola. It’s a clever title (playing off the “Boola Boola” title of Yale’s fight song) of an editorial published by the Los Angeles Times earlier this week regarding ideas for reforming the treatment of NCAA student-athletes. When it comes to NCAA reform and the treatment of student-athletes as amateurs (non-paid), opinions [...] Read More
The Pac-12 has announced it is content with only 12 members in its league (for now). The Big East has announced that its remaining members are sticking together (for now). The ACC will be adding two from the Big East (Pittsburgh and Syracuse) get to 14 members, but “isn’t philosophically opposed to 16.” And the [...] Read More
So just what does the all-time winningest coach in college basketball do when she’s faced with an adverse situation? She fights back with the type of grit and determination that made her a legend. When University of Tennessee women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt announced recently that she has been diagnosed with early-onset dementia, an early [...] Read More
“Think before you retweet” is a mantra we concur with in the world of journalism and hyper gossip. When 140-character bylines fly at you a dozen at a time, and when a thousand bloggers are all vying for your coveted attention, it pays to have the scoop. We’ve found out that Bill Cosby keeps [...] Read More