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John Marinatto resigned Monday as the Big East's commissioner, CBS Sports reported, citing industry sources. Marinatto, only the third commissioner in the conference's history, recruited seven new members in recent months as the Big East battled for survival after two rounds of departures that saw Boston College, Miami, Virginia Tech, Syracuse, Pittsburgh and West Virginia announce their exits.

The Pac-12 appears to be working out the final details of a deal that would bring Texas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech to the conference, sources close to the situation told Hookem.com and the American-Statesman on Sunday morning.

Ever since Congress passed the federal gender-equity law known as Title IX, universities have opened their gyms and athletic fields to millions of women who previously did not have chances to play. But as women have surged into a majority on campus in recent years, many institutions have resorted to subterfuge to make it look as if they are offering more spots to women. At the University of South Florida, more than half of the 71 women on the cross-country roster failed to run a race in 2009. Asked about it, a few laughed and said they did not know...

<p>Remember the talk that the Big Ten would take 12-18 months to decide whether to expand?</p> <p>An accelerated timetable has emerged, according to sources familiar with the process.</p> <p>High-ranking Big Ten representatives will meet Sunday afternoon in Washington D.C. to discuss expansion. The timing and location of the session make sense considering the Association of American Universities is holding its semi-annual meetings in D.C. from Sunday-Tuesday, and all 11 Big Ten schools are AAU members.</p>

Coach Brad Franchione has been named the 2009 American Community College Football Coaches Association Coach of the Year. The award will be presented to Franchione at the American Football Coaches Association Coach of the Year Dinner on Jan. 12 at the AFCA Convention in Orlando.

As college sports continues to saturate the world of 24-hour sports news, some members of Congress are asking whether athletics ties into the academic mission of higher education. Proof that athletics spending supports education could become necessary to maintain the tax-exempt status of college sports. Losing that status could cost major programs like LSU’s millions of dollars, economists say. Although LSU officials do not believe Congress will make major changes in the tax law anytime soon, many aspects of sports revenue are potentially at stake, including: Whether to tax colleges for revenue they get from television broadcast rights. Loss of...

<p>After winning the Dodge Holiday Classic, the third-ranked Univ. of Minnesota hockey team is on a roll. The Gophers now hold the top spot in this week's All-Sports Rankings.</p> <p>Football season is over, and what an ending it was. Vince Young's fourth-down touchdown scramble in the waning seconds of the Rose Bowl gave Texas the national championship and helped the Longhorns secure a spot in the top 10 of the All-Sports rankings.</p>

**tztown, we've got a problem You don't have to be a collegian to know you can't spell Kutztown University without K and U. Unfortunately, the letters are University of Kansas trademarks. By Mike Urban Reading Eagle Give us a “K.” Give us a “U.” That may sound like a cheer at a Kutztown University football game, but these days it's an order the college hopes it doesn't receive. Kutztown has used its initials on football helmets, letterheads and bookstore merchandise since it became a university in 1983. But somehow that information hadn't made its way to the University of Kansas,...

WF on the wrong end of another NCAA upset.

University of Iowa News Release Feb. 2, 2005 Editor's Note: Iowa players or coaches will not be available to comment on the dismissal of Pierre Pierce. Iowa Athletic Director Bob Bowlsby will answer any questions. Pierce Dismissed From Men's Basketball Team University of Iowa basketball player Pierre Pierce has been permanently dismissed from the team. The announcement came today from Head Coach Steve Alford. "Effective, immediately, Pierre Pierce has been dismissed from the University of Iowa men's basketball team," said Alford. "I regret this step has become necessary, but Pierre has betrayed the trust we placed in him when he...

South Florida wants NCAA to allow uniform exemption: The University of South Florida will ask the NCAA to grant an exemption to its uniform policy and allow a Muslim player to wear Islamic clothing on the basketball court. Andrea Armstrong, a Muslim convert said she left the team and lost her athletic scholarship last week after her coach told her that could not wear religiously mandated clothing during practices or games. She wanted to wear long pants, a top with long sleeves and a head scarf. In a meeting Friday involving Armstrong, the university and the Council on American-Islanic Relations,...

<p>RALEIGH, N.C. - The ACC is having discussions with Notre Dame about becoming the league's 12th member, with concessions to allay the school's concern about giving up its lucrative independent status in football in the near future.</p> <p>Sources inside and outside the league told the Charlotte Observer that ACC Commissioner John Swofford has expressed a willingness to have the Fighting Irish join the ACC as a partial member within the next year or two.</p>

They sat there behind the microphones in the Jerry West Lounge within the Coliseum, the executioners of five sports programs at West Virginia University. They explained their reasoning in terms of dollars and no sense, in terms of scholarships and percentages, but they could not explain away how many lives they dismantled, how many dreams they slaughtered. They had answers for the most pressing questions, questions like these: How can you find $7 million for Rich Rodriguez (with a $2 million buyout) and not $600,000 to keep five sports and the scholarships of 53 athletes going? How can you do...

<p>The University of Michigan Thursday brought to an end the seven-year saga of booster Eddie L. Martin of Detroit, forfeiting victories as far back as 1992 and returning post-season revenues.</p> <p>The humbling day for the once-proud Wolverine basketball program began early in the morning when workers took down four banners from the ceiling of Crisler Arena -- the 1992 and 1993 NCAA finalist flags, the 1997 NIT Championship banner, and the 1998 Big Ten Tournament title.</p>

<p>Sports Illustrated combined a variety of factors in arriving at its 2002 rankings of Division I schools, including performance during the 2001-02 school year in the big five sports (baseball, football, hockey and men's and women basketball); position in the '01-'02 Sears Cup NCAA all-sports standings; number of varsity, club and intramural sports; range of recreational facilities; and whether or not spirit-boosting events like Midnight Madness were held.</p>

Want to Try Out for College Sports? Forget It By BILL PENNINGTON A gymnast since the first grade, Jason Lindberg had just one goal in his athletic life: to compete for the gymnastics team at the University of Oklahoma. Oklahoma did not offer him a gymnastics scholarship when Lindberg was a high school senior in Tulsa last spring, but he chose to enroll there anyway. Lindberg figured he would be a freshman walk-on in gymnastics. Celebrated in the movie "Rudy," walk-ons are plucky, unrecruited undergraduates who walk on to practice and make a team filled with elite scholarship athletes. They...

Filed at 7:51 p.m. ET INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The future of the NCAA is up for debate this week in Indianapolis. On Thursday, the Board of Directors will discuss a series of proposals that could redefine the term ``amateur'' athletics. Then on Friday, the executive committee will begin its search to find a replacement for retiring president Cedric Dempsey. It's a 48-hour period that could dramatically change the governing body does business. ``We're asking the NCAA to move away from one of its founding principals,'' said Ohio State president Brit Kirwan, chairman of the NCAA's board of directors. ``Given that...

Posted on Sun, Mar. 24, 2002 How football money factors into NCAAs By Frank Fitzpatrick Inquirer Staff Writer The statistical geeks are at work already, dissecting the NCAA men's basketball tournament, seeking the secret to postseason success in Duke's turnover totals, Kansas' shooting percentages, Maryland's points in the paint. But perhaps the most significant factor distinguishing Sweet 16 teams from NCAA also-rans has nothing to do with X's and O's. You won't find it in box scores or hear it discussed in neighborhood taverns. It's money. Despite the NCAA tournament's reputation for upsets, the conferences with the biggest athletic budgets...