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USC names Caryl Smith Gilbert director of track and field

2013-06-17 11:25:00

Caryl Smith Gilbert, a former UCLA All-American, has been hired as USC’s director of track and field, the school announced. Smith Gilbert, 44, coached Central Florida’s women’s track and cross-country programs the last six seasons. She...

Letters: College students' sexual choices

2013-06-01 00:00:00

Re "Uncoupling the hookup culture," Opinion, May 28 As a sexuality educator and author, I applaud Bob Laird's article. But I do have one concern. He stated that Boston University religion professor and author Donna Freitas "denigrates abstinence...

John Tortorella is fired as coach of New York Rangers

2013-05-29 22:22:00

John Tortorella was defiant in stating that the New York Rangers didn't take a step back when they were knocked out of the Stanley Cup playoffs in the second round. General Manager Glen Sather thought otherwise and fired the combative coach Wednesday....

Orb is 3-1 favorite in Belmont Stakes

2013-06-05 19:44:00

Back home again in New York, Kentucky Derby winner Orb is the horse to beat in the Belmont Stakes. Orb was made the 3-1 morning-line favorite in a field of 14 entered for Saturday's final leg of the Triple Crown at Belmont Park, and trainer Shug...

NBA owners vote to reject Sacramento Kings' proposed move to Seattle

2013-05-15 18:40:00

NBA owners voted Wednesday to reject the Sacramento Kings' proposed move to Seattle, the latest in a long line of cities that have tried to land the franchise. The 22-8 vote in Dallas followed a recommendation made last month by the NBA's relocation...

Walk-on Collin Mehring a rising star in UC Irvine volleyball

2013-05-01 18:10:00

Collin Mehring had been a growing boy and a somewhat unreliable contributor to the UC Irvine men's volleyball team for two years while being an intense student in the school's acclaimed computer science engineering program. And that's hardly surprising....

Parents, your college kids will still listen to you about drinking

2013-04-18 13:16:00

Going to college can be a rough transition, full of new faces and schedules and freedoms. And parties. Lots of parties. Lots of chances to drink. And that gives plenty of parents pause. But a new study offers parents this encouraging news: Teenagers...

San Diego police plan no action related to Padres-Dodgers brawl

2013-04-12 11:45:00

SAN DIEGO -- There were more than 24,000 witnesses at the location and many thousands more watching on television. And there is video and lots of still pictures showing what happened. But San Diego police plan no investigation or charges after the...

Jerry Sandusky maintains innocence in recorded interview in prison

2013-03-25 09:04:00

He may be out of sight, but former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky remains very much in mind, surfacing in recorded interviews to once again insist he was innocent of molesting children. Sandusky, 69, was convicted of 45 counts of...

NCAA sees bumps in the road, but schools pay for the damage

2013-02-26 00:00:00

Come to find out, the creators of the dreaded "lack of institutional control" have been throwing stones from inside their own glass house. The NCAA, short for the National Collegiate Athletic Assn., is now in the kind of damage-control mode that it so...

Jerry Sandusky tries to appeal jury conviction -- again

2013-02-21 17:37:00

Eight months after a jury convicted Jerry Sandusky of sexually molesting young boys, the former Penn State assistant football coach’s attorneys have again filed court documents asking the state appeals court to upend the decision. The notice of...

Online education groups add colleges from U.S. and overseas

2013-02-20 21:02:35

Champion Christian High School graduate Mallory Pasquarette, Acme, gets a hug from preschool teacher Danah Skinner. Pasquarette said she plans to attend Pennsylvania State University.

2013-05-30 19:24:00

Francis K. Achampong, currently the chancellor at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus, has been named the next chancellor of Penn State Mont Alto, effective Aug. 1.

2013-05-07 18:44:00

Elizabeth Hutchison, 22, Fayetteville, Pa., and her 2-year-old niece, Koraline Hutchison of Smithsburg, celebrate at Penn State Mont Alto's spring commencement on Saturday.

2013-05-04 17:40:00