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The Big Ten circus is an unmitigated PR disaster with a leader who wants to hide in the corner without suffering from the consequences of a premature decision. After a sudden and unpredictable shift in optimism within 72 hours, Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren canceled football, with little evidence to back up his decision. Now parents of affected students are demanding justification as to why Warren reached this verdict.After Dr. Venk Murthy, a University of Michigan cardiologist, questioned the evidence the Big Ten used to cancel its season, parents of Ohio State, Penn State, and Iowa football players have submitted...

The National Labor Relations Board on Monday blocked a historic bid by Northwestern University football players to form the nation’s first college athletes’ union, dealing a blow to a labor movement that could have transformed amateur sports. In a unanimous decision, the board said the prospect of having both union and nonunion teams could lead to different standards at different schools—from the amount of money players receive to the amount of time they can practice—and create competitive imbalances on the field. The ruling dismissed a stunning decision in March 2014 by a regional NLRB director in Chicago who said football...

Charlotte, NC (LifeNews.com) -- After a national controversy where several colleges came under fire for revoking the scholarships of student athletes who become pregnant, the NCAA has met to review what it should do. The problems came to light when students at the University of Memphis and Clemson University said they felt pressured to have abortions. At a recent meeting in Charlotte, NCAA officials appeared to agree they should focus more on educating students about their rights rather than changing official rules.Janet Kittel, the outgoing head of the NCAA’s Committee on Women's Athletics, said NCAA director Myles Brand asked the...

Reggie Mathis wishes he could go back. Wishes he hadn’t squandered that last spring he was on the OU campus. Wishes he had been as partial to the library as he is now. Mathis has gone back. Back to the state he left in 1979. Back to the people who helped before and are willing to do it again. Back to school. Reggie Mathis awoke today with a new title. A new way to describe a man who in March turned 50 years old. College graduate. Twenty-eight years after Mathis finished his Sooner football career, he graduated from the University...

PIKEVILLE - On Pikeville College's Internet site, Jermaine Hampton is listed as a member of the school's football team: a 6-foot-4, 264-pound defensive lineman and tight end from Naples, Fla. Hampton, who is on partial scholarship, also is on a different sort of list: the Kentucky sex offender registry. But that information is not posted on the college's Web site or anywhere on the private Eastern Kentucky campus because school officials decided to keep quiet about Hampton's past.