Collegiate athletics

Hour-long Big Ten Awards Show to air Friday night at 10 PM ET

CHICAGO, June 18, 2008 – The Big Ten Network will honor the conference's top plays, games, performers and performances of 2007-08 during the Big Ten Awards Show. The hour-long program, hosted by Dave Revsine, Mike Hall and Rick Pizzo, debuts at 10 PM ET Friday. Fans can cast their ballots online at BigTenNetwork.com for the Play of the Year, the Big Ten Male Athletic Coach of the Year and the Big Ten Female Athletic Coach of the Year.    » read more »

INDIANAPOLIS, Tuesday, June 3, 2008 -- The NCAA has invited 28 football coaches to its 2008 NCAA Expert Coaches Academy, which takes place June 5-7 in Dallas, Texas.

The Expert Coaches Academy is an NCAA program that addresses the critical shortage of ethnic minorities in head coaching positions in the sport of college football, primarily at the Division I level. Though the NCAA National Office does not have hiring authority over its member colleges and universities, the office is able to provide programming that better prepares coaches for many of the issues they will experience at the head coaching level through program sessions and networking opportunities with current head coaches.

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Coverage Begins May 29

May 27, 2008 -- ESPN’s coverage of the entire Women’s College World Series – up to 17 games on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN360.com beginning Thursday, May 29 – will feature ESPN’s John Kruk as a game analyst on 10 games, including the best-of-three Championship. Kruk, an analyst on ESPN’s Baseball Tonight studio show and select MLB games, will work with Beth Mowins and analyst Jessica Mendoza, a 2004 Olympic Gold Medalist and member of the U.S. team headed for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.    » read more »

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, May 23, 2008 --- Brian Gordon, a respected member of the swimming and diving community, has been named the NCAA’s next secretary-rules editor. Gordon will officially replace long-time rules editor Sue Petersen Lubow when her term expires in September 2009.    » read more »

April 30, 2008 -- ESPN Regional Television (ERT) today announced that the Papajohns.com Bowl in Birmingham, Ala., will host a matchup between the BIG EAST Conference and the Southeastern Conference (SEC) starting in 2008.

The matchup between a bowl-eligible team from the SEC and one from the BIG EAST came about as the result of negotiations between the two conferences and Conference USA, and with the approval of the NCAA Postseason Bowl Committee. The announcement was made today at the annual Football Bowl Association meetings in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.    » read more »

Thursday, April 10, 2008, INDIANAPOLIS -- Nearly 82 percent of NCAA Division III member schools support or strongly support the current Division III structure instead of the creation of a new division or subdivision, results of the Division III Membership Survey show.

The response rate to the survey was 96 percent. All 442 active and provisional members of Division III were requested to submit a survey.

In light of the survey results, the Division III Working Group on Membership Issues and the Executive Committee Working Group on Membership have concluded their work to address the membership growth and diversity in Division III.    » read more »

Wednesday, March 26, 2008, INDIANAPOLIS -- As part of NCAA Women’s Final Four activities in Tampa, the NCAA is sponsoring a Women in College Sports Forum on Sunday, April 6.

Sessions will begin at 9 a.m. at the Tampa Hyatt Regency, Regency Ballrooms I-III. Leaders in women’s intercollegiate athletics will discuss the portrayal of female athletes in the media; lessons learned from successful women in athletics and life/work balance, among other topics. A University of South Florida local organizing committee helped organize the event.    » read more »

Tuesday, March 11, 2008, INDIANAPOLIS---The NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions has penalized Brigham Young University for major and secondary violations in its men's volleyball program. This case primarily involves violations of NCAA recruiting rules, including impermissible transportation, housing, meals, employment, cash and clothing, among other impermissible benefits. These impermissible benefits were provided by representatives of the institution's athletics interests (boosters). The case also includes a failure to monitor by the institution and the former head coach.    » read more »

- Entire NCAA Women's Basketball Championship
- One- Hour Special Highlighting Women in Sports and More

Thursday, February 28, 2008, INDIANAPOLIS -- The NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions has penalized Texas Christian University for major and secondary violations in its men's tennis program. This case involves impermissible phone contacts and a failure to monitor by the institution and the former head coach.

The violations include 105 impermissible phone calls made by members of the men's tennis coaching staff to 24 prospective student-athletes during the four years from summer of 2002 through the spring of 2006. More than 70 calls were made by the former head coach.    » read more »

Tuesday, February 26, 2008, INDIANAPOLIS -- CBS Sports has partnered with IMG College, a division of IMG Worldwide, as exclusive sales representative to work in conjunction with the CBS Sports Properties Group in the licensing of NCAA Corporate Marketing Rights on the Champion and Partner levels, it was announced today by Sean McManus, President CBS News and Sports.    » read more »

Tuesday, Feburary 26, 2008, INDIANAPOLIS -- The NCAA has awarded 58 postgraduate scholarships of $7,500 each to 29 male student-athletes and 29 female student-athletes who participated in fall sports, which included men's and women's cross country, football, men's and women's soccer, women's volleyball and men's water polo.    » read more »

Wednesday, February 20, 2008, INDIANAPOLIS---The NCAA Division II Committee on Infractions has penalized the University of Central Oklahoma for a number of major and secondary violations in the football program. This case involved failure to monitor and unethical conduct violations against the former head coach, as well as a lack of institutional control for the university.    » read more »

Monday, February 18, 2008, INDIANAPOLIS -- Mike Bobinski, director of athletics at Xavier University, has been appointed to the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee. The appointment is effective September 1, 2008 and is a five-year term.    » read more »

Wednesday, February 13, 2008, INDIANAPOLIS — Dave Yeast, the NCAA national coordinator of baseball umpires since 1996, has resigned his position with the Association, effective immediately. Yeast has decided to pursue other interests, which includes a return to umpiring.    » read more »