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NCAA Tournament Bracket Leaks?

Alabama football turned a $46.5 million profit last year, according to a financial report filed by the university....

Players Keep Complaining About Maryland's Under Armour Balls

Here’s a stupid fact about college basketball: The million-dollar sponsorship deals that schools sign with various apparel companies has created a sport in which there is no universal game ball. Nike schools use Nike balls, Adidas schools use Adidas balls, and so on....

In a victory for common sense, the NCAA Tournament’s Thursday and Friday games will again be called the “first round.” After five years, the play-in games will be renamed the “first four.”...

Kirk Herbstreit Has Bad Opinions About The <i>NCAA Football</i> Video Game

SEC Country just released part of an interview with college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit that was conducted back in November. In it, Herbstreit makes a stink about the continued absence of the NCAA Football video game, which was shelved by Electronic Arts after Ed O’Bannon sued the NCAA for prof...

Jon Chait Can't Stop Wringing His Hands Over Paying College Athletes

New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait, who has been humping the increasingly ridiculous argument that college athletes should not be paid for years, is running out of ideas....

Mizzou Basketball Agrees To Pretend 2013-14 Season Didn't Happen

The University of Missouri men’s basketball program is the latest sacrifice to be offered at the NCAA’s altar. An internal investigation has revealed that the university violated multiple NCAA bylaws, and the men’s basketball team will have to forfeit an entire season’s worth of wins as a result....

Is EA Sports' <i>NCAA Football</i> Game Making A Comeback? [UPDATES]

EA Sports has not released an edition of its popular NCAA Football game after litigation between former players and the NCAA led to a $60 million settlement to pay players whose likenesses had been represented in the series. EA’s announcement of the game’s death came in 2013; today, on its Facebook ...

Tom Brady's Agent Makes The Case For Alabama And Clemson Players To Boycott National Title Game

In a very good, lengthy, well-researched editorial for the Washington Post, Donald Yee digs into the economics of college sports, makes the case for paying college football players, examines the racial lines along which this injustice is served, and suggests that a boycott of tomorrow’s national cha...

The New Case Against Bill Cosby Is Mostly Based On Evidence Authorities Had All Along

Bill Cosby was charged yesterday with three counts of aggravated indecent assault by authorities in Montgomery County, Pa., for what happened back in 2004, when Andrea Constand said Cosby invited her over to his home, drugged, and assaulted her. At the time, Constand was the director of operations f...

College Athletic Departments Blow Millions On Fancy Stickers

The cooked books of big-time athletic departments show that schools barely break even at best on their athletics budgets. This is often used as evidence that paying athletes is untenable. What it conveniently glosses over is the unbelievable amount of already-existing money being more or less set on...

Bill Cosby Charged In 2004 Sexual-Assault Case Involving Temple Basketball Employee

Earlier today, prosecutors in Montgomery County, Pa. announced that they had filed felony charges against disgraced comedian Bill Cosby in relation to an accusation that in 2004, he drugged and sexually assaulted a woman in his home....

The Washington Post continues its deep dive into the murky world of college athletics finances, this time taking a look at the extravagant facilities being built for athletes, like Clemson’s “players’ village” which includes laser tag, miniature golf, and bowling. [Washington Post]...

College Football Coaches Are Making Millions Off A Useless Metric

As a part of a project helmed by HKM and Deadspin, we have retrieved and reviewed the contracts of every Division I public university head football coach. In this space, we will look at the academic incentives within these coaches’ contracts and how they were brought upon by the NCAA’s focus on the ...

Chowderhead ADs Bemoan How College Athletes Choose To Spend Their Own Money

Those in charge of college athletics attempting to exert incomparable levels of control over the athletes they barely pay is nothing new. But even by the very low standards by which athletics directors should be held, Alabama’s Bill Battle and North Carolina State’s Debbie Yow said some some dumb sh...

The Washington Post has a deep-dive on the finances of college athletics, and why despite booming revenues just about as many universities are losing money today as were 10 years ago. [Washington Post]...

LSU Investigating Leonard Fournette's Family For (Briefly) Selling Merchandise

LSU attorneys are investigating whether star running back Leonard Fournette violated NCAA rules when his family set up a website before his college debut to sell gear emblazoned with Fournette’s catchphrase, according to a report from USA Today....

University Of Missouri President Tim Wolfe Resigns

University of Missouri president Tim Wolfe announced this morning that he will resign from his position. Wolfe’s resignation was spurred on by students, including the football team, who were unsatisfied with his handling of several on-campus incidents of racism....

Former College Football Player Sues NCAA Over Transfer And Scholarship Policies

Devin Pugh played football for Weber State in 2011 and 2012, then, after his coach Ron Mcbride retired, found himself out of a scholarship when the new administration pulled it. Pugh tried to transfer to another Division I school, but had his offers rescinded after he was not granted a transfer waiv...

Every NCAA Infraction Should Be Legal

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