Casting a light where the sun don’t shine
Senior Florida pitcher Steven Locke has been indefinitely suspended after being arrested early Saturday morning for drunken driving. Police pulled Locke over after noticing his black SUV traveling at excessively slow speed and weaving in and out of oncoming traffic. Locke’s slurred speech added to the police officers’ suspicions, but it was his wrist band [...]
The University of Arizona has reported a possible recruiting violation in coach Lute Olson sending a letter to basketball boosters asking for a donation to the Arizona Cactus Classic AAU basketball tournament held last May.
The Cactus Classic, which Olson’s letter called “very critical for our recruiting,” is held at the University of Arizona’s McKale Center [...]
The NCAA has decided not to alter its current policy on alcohol advertising despite growing public support for a complete ban on the ads.
The current policy allows 60 seconds of commercial time out of every hour of NCAA sports programming to be dedicated to alcoholic beverages containing 6 percent of alcohol or less, which includes [...]
Update: Illinois Guard Smith dismissed
Illinois coach Bruce Weber has dismissed junior guard Jamar Smith after Smith turned himself in for allegedly violating his probation by drinking alcohol last weekend.
“Jamar’s decision to violate the terms of our personal agreement for his potential return to our basketball program has left me with no other recourse but to [...]
Pat White tossed a bomb Tuesday at the Big East media day in Newport, R.I., when a reporter asked whether White had ever considered playing baseball at West Virginia. It was a question that could be expected as White has been selected three times in baseball’s amateur draft, including last month by the Cincinnati [...]
After making decisions such as hiring head coach Kelvin Sampson, which will likely take the Indiana basketball program years if not decades to recover from, deparating athletic director Rick Greenspan will collect at least $370,000 for his resignation.
Jorge Zavalata, who was fired from a Bloomington area diner after forgetting to turn in his apron at [...]
South Carolina’s athletic department started criminal background checks on prospective coaches and administrators a few months after the NCAA placed the Gamecocks football program on three years probation.
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Indiana University has reorganized its athletics compliance staff ahead of next week’s NCAA infractions committee hearing over alleged rules violations by former basketball coach Kelvin Sampson.
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The ace of Oklahoma State’s pitching staff was declared ineligible Saturday, hours before the Cowboys’ biggest game of the year.
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USC has never been afraid of the classics and in responding to allegations of impropriety surround star basketball player O.J. Mayo, USC has dusted off one of the best of all time in an excuse used religiously and successfully by mafia dons and cheating husbands everywhere. In the former instance, [...]