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BusinessWeek October 20, 2003 Skip Rozin |
A Whole New Ball Game? The push to reform--and scale back--collegiate athletics is gaining yardage. |
Sports Central December 28, 2006 Diane M. Grassi |
NCAA Gives New Meaning to Gender-Bias Unless the NCAA realizes that Title IX's intent was to help women succeed, it will not fulfill its intended purpose. |
AskMen.com December 10, 2003 Steve Seepersaud |
Why Is The NCAA Downsizing? While money is a major reason colleges cut sports teams, it certainly isn't the only reason. |
AskMen.com Steve Seepersaud |
5 Big Sport Revenue Colleges Don't be fooled: Even though college sports are on the amateur level, the people running athletic departments at well-known universities are professionals when it comes to making money. |
Registered Rep. October 22, 2014 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
How to Get An Athletic Scholarship Here are seven things advisors should share with clients who believe athleticism is the way to cover college costs. |
CFO August 1, 2006 Joseph McCafferty |
The Money Bowl The real competition in big-time college sports is over who can spend the most. Colleges generally justify spending on athletics by pointing out the intangible benefits that they bring to the universities. |
Sports Illustrated June 19, 2002 Frank Deford |
Solving the Title IX problem Making football a separate entity would benefit both sexes. |
AskMen.com Steve Seepersaud |
How Athletes Are Cultivated How do aspiring sports stars hone their talents so they're ready for the big time and the dollars that are up for grabs? How much money is involved in cultivating talent? |
Sports Central September 19, 2011 Neil Bright |
Show Me the Money Even though student-athletes are already fairly compensated, even though paying them will harm other programs, and even though funds are already available for poor students, their "show me the money" mantra is blindly accepted as the righteous cure-all for what is wrong with college sports. |
CFO March 1, 2009 Kate Plourd |
Performance Boost College athletic departments get new revenue and cost analysis tools, part of the NCAA's effort to improve their financial reporting. |
Salon.com April 24, 2002 Allen Barra |
The corporate sports rip-off Why are taxpayers still subsidizing professional football and basketball? |
Sports Illustrated April 24, 2001 Seth Davis |
A Loan At The Top Spring is supposed to be the season of renewal, but it has been a bleak few weeks for the basketball program at Arizona, where four nonsenior starters from the NCAA finalist Wildcats have declared themselves eligible for the June 27 NBA draft... |
Sports Illustrated March 22, 2000 |
Football is the real villain The NCAA tournament always draws an inordinate amount of critical interest about how much money is involved in college athletics... |
AskMen.com March 28, 2013 |
The Mind-Blowing Value Of College Athletes Are LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh really worth 1,000 times more than Peyton Siva, Russ Smith and Chane Behanan? According to a study released by the National College Players Association and Drexel University, the answer is a resounding "no." |
Sports Illustrated June 18, 2002 Susan Casey |
The Games Women Play Title IX has been a huge success, creating athletic opportunities where they didn't exist. So 30 years after its passage, why is the law still under attack? |
Sports Central March 10, 2008 Chris Gonzales |
A Sign of the Times, a Look to the Future While it is still too early to tell if professional sports have been corrupted beyond repair, the answer may lie just below the surface. |
Sports Illustrated June 6, 2001 Frank Deford |
Athletics 101 A change in eligibility rules is long overdue if we want to encourage talented athletes to stay in school... |
Sports Central December 12, 2005 Mike Round |
Why NCAA Should Stick With Bowls Seven years after its inception, Congress has decided to look into the BCS in Division I-A football and why it's the only major sport without a playoff system. |
Reason April 2001 Michael Lynch |
Title IX's Pyrrhic Victory How the quest for "gender equity" is killing men's athletic programs... |
Sports Central October 31, 2007 Matt Thomas |
The BCS is a Good Thing ... No, Really Nine tried and true reasons to believe in the Bowl Championship Series and its value to college football. |
Sports Central August 14, 2013 Andrew Jones |
An Anti-Conference Approach The past few years have seen a plague of movement in college football conferences to the point where the names don't even make any sense anymore. |
Sports Illustrated March 8, 2000 |
NCAA madness not confined to March ...the NCAA police force has taken after some of the most distinguished basketball programs in the country... |
Sports Central December 4, 2006 Ryan Day |
Congress to Tinker With BCS? House representative Joe Barton is heading up a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee of Congress to conduct research on the Bowl Championship Series and hold hearings, if necessary, if the BCS Bowl selections cause the uproar they did last year. |
Sports Central September 8, 2006 Diane M. Grassi |
Globalization Defeating the American Athlete The increase of insourcing foreign players in the U.S. may result in sacrificing the best American athletes. |
Sports Central December 16, 2003 Jeff Zaginailoff |
The Solution to the BCS is a Playoff Tournament Despite recent efforts to reform it, the process for deciding the national champion in college football, the most noteworthy and public of all college sports, is still far from perfected. |
Sports Illustrated January 31, 2002 Frank Deford |
Roots Black coaches still can't make headway in football... |
HBS Working Knowledge September 29, 2008 Sarah Jane Gilbert |
How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games Efficient matching improves opportunities for everyone from schoolchildren to attorneys -- and even carries the potential to help sustain life itself. |
Sports Central January 4, 2012 Louie Centanni |
Why the 66-Game NBA Season Should Stay Between playing more frequently, forcing stars to show effort nightly, and reintroducing the concept of team basketball, the 66-game NBA season seems to be a great experiment - one that should become the norm for years to come. |
AskMen.com Steve Seepersaud |
Vice Sponsorships If there is one thing in common in all sports, it's that health, exercise, and proper nutrition are important to the player's success. So, why do sports endorse products that don't follow this mantra? |
Sports Central March 4, 2013 Jonathan Lowe |
No Matter What? The author discusses the ups and downs of a single season for college football and basketball teams. |
Sports Central December 12, 2011 Andrew Jones |
Brawling and Basketball Don't Mix The brawl that took place immediately after the Xavier vs. Cincinnati game last Saturday was not unique. It was simply another glaring example of athletes in popular sports lacking integrity, emotional stability, and common sense. |
Sports Central December 17, 2012 Andrew Jones |
Enough Already It is time to put an end to all of the distractions that college sports provide. And that needs to happen by telling teams what conference they are in. |
Sports Central November 16, 2010 Corrie Trouw |
Square Pegs and Round Holes College basketball is now a glorified AAU league. Core players flow in and out of programs so quickly that traditional team building is virtually impossible. |
Sports Central January 25, 2006 Diane M. Grassi |
Winter Olympics Athletes Face Double Standard Big media and corporate sponsorship of sporting events in the US have become as big a story these days as the sports and athletes they themselves sponsor, with nary an opportunity missed by advertisers and networks alike to promote themselves. |
Sports Central April 12, 2006 Michael Beshara |
In Defense of the BCS As enjoyable as college basketball's March Madness may be, college football's BCS provides the opportunity for both a more exciting and more just crowning of a national champion. |
Sports Central July 19, 2011 Andrew Jones |
Rants and Predictions Sounding off on inconsistency and cheating in sports. Plus predictions for the upcoming college football season. |
Sports Central March 22, 2013 Kevin Beane |
The Other Tournaments of March The main one of these, of course, is the NIT, but two more have recently arrived on the slate to ensure that virtually every Division I basketball team with a winning record will playing somewhere with hardware on the line. Let's take a look at each. |
Sports Central January 16, 2007 Adam Russell |
Reflections on College Football '06 Did the two best teams finally play in the national championship game? |
Sports Illustrated May 22, 2002 Frank Deford |
Another graduation speech Life lessons for those expecting a free ride -- big-time college athletes... |
The Motley Fool April 13, 2005 Jeff Hwang |
EA's Latest Score: College Football The company signs exclusive deal to develop, publish, and distribute college football games. |
The Motley Fool December 29, 2006 Nathan Slaughter |
A Fool Goes Bowling Which title sponsor will be crowned Wall Street's Champ? Corporate America has stamped its signature indelibly on the most visible face of college athletics. The benefits from such an investment are impossible to calculate, but they clearly wouldn't be made without a winning game plan in mind. |
Sports Illustrated December 13, 2001 Frank Deford |
Bowled under BCS leaves a lot to be desired... |
Sports Illustrated October 1, 2002 |
America's Best Sports Colleges Sports Illustrated combined a variety of factors in arriving at its 2002 rankings of Division I schools |
Sports Illustrated January 17, 2001 Frank Deford |
Our college samurai A privileged athletic class is caustic to college life... |
BusinessWeek March 25, 2010 Jason Zengerle |
March Payday Madness No one makes more money from the annual NCAA tournament than big-time college basketball coaches. Are they worth their astronomical paychecks? |
Sports Central September 30, 2003 David Shaw |
The Intangibles of Success As college football begins to hit mid-stride and the true heart of the schedule with conference play, schools are dropping out of the top-10 like flyballs in a Colorado Rockies outfield. The division between winners and losers this year is no different than any other: the intangibles. |
Fast Company November 2010 Rachel Arndt |
College Football by the Numbers America loves its college football, even if we'd like to throw a gazillion penalty flags at the Bowl Championship Series. Here's a look at the business of the BCS, bowl season, and college football, by the numbers. |
Sports Central May 29, 2007 Adam Russell |
The Sports Fan's Cable/Satellite TV Paradox There are now so many specialized sports networks on cable/satellite TV that executives are forced to find anything to fill their programming schedules. |
AskMen.com Dave Golokhov |
Top 10: Useless Sports Traditions From the "foul pole" that marks fair territory in baseball to the tolerance to fighting in the NHL, here are 10 useless sports traditions that don't make much sense. |
Sports Central June 1, 2005 Kevin Ferra |
A Look at Sports Globalization A look at American sports and a preview of upcoming articles about popular sports in other countries. |