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NCAA board of directors votes to penalize schools
that don't graduate athletes, rescinds 5/8
By Alan Schmadtke, KRT Campus
Calling it “a sea change in college sports,” NCAA
President Myles Brand heralded a new set of academic reforms voted
in Thursday by the Division I Board of Directors—reforms that
would penalize schools that don’t keep athletes eligible and
fail to graduate them. The board also rescinded the controversial
5/8 rule for basketball, effective immediately. Put in place to prevent
coaches from running
players off, the rule said programs could sign no more than five
recruits in any one year and no more than eight in any two-year
period.More>>
Hath-Time
By Nathan Hathaway
Pat Tillman, the NFL player who recently died in Afghanistan, was
a great American. But he also shows how our society makes professional
athletes larger than life. Now I’m not usually one to use I
in my columns or refer to myself, I can’t help but inject myself
into this one. You see, I went to high school with Tillman, as well
as both of his brothers. Pat Tillman deserves the utmost respect.
He went to the Middle East to serve his country, and he eventually
died to protect the
freedom of his countrymen. Tillman did what he felt was his duty.More>>
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Fresno State men’s basketball coach Ray
Lopes and his program are just one of the teams that will feel
the effects of the decisions made by the NCAA Board of Directors
on Thursday.
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