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The NCAA decided to cut Myck Kabongo a break Friday and reduced his season-long suspension for not being truthful to the organization all of 8 regular season games.

The NCAA Board of Directors Saturday voted down a proposal to cut football scholarships for D-1 programs from 85 to 80. The Board did reaffirm the desire to provide a $2,000 "miscellaneous expense...

Saturday, the NCAA Board of Directors will vote on several sweeping rules changes, including cutting the total of football scholarships from 85 to 80. The Board of Directors will also vote on a...

Taylor Branch’s article in this month's Atlantic Monthly (it's more than Andrew Sullivan now!) about how the myths of amateurism and student-athletes allow the NCAA and its constituent schools to...

Or: Academic rankings are more interesting when football is half the grade Americans love rankings like their freedom. They also love the freedom to read too much into such rankings despite their...

If it isn’t obvious who lost the BC office Game of Thrones, then go read texags.com and leave me the hell alone. Someone had to stage a coup d’état to steal my Baylor assignment from me. Now...

I came across this story on our Sooner blog. Apparently Bill Byrne has the Hefty bags out and is girding his legs and loins for battle. I always wonder, when Bill means business, does he go for the...

After spending a year mired in scandals, and giving Coach Butch Davis several votes of confidence, the North Carolina Tar Heels, in an astonishing example of horrid timing, finally fired Davis. T...

While the internet and other forms of social media are all atwitter over the LHN and more speculation of conference expansion, real news is being made at the SEC Media Days. The most powerful...

Gene Chizik was in Destin, FLA last month at an annual SEC meeting attended by all the men’s hoops coaches, football coaches and athletic directors from that conference, AKA the people who pay...