Mark Emmert

NCAA releases latest scores for athletes in the classroom

2013-06-11 12:30:00

A decade after it created the Academic Progress Rate, the NCAA says its�annual measuring stick continues to show improved classroom performance by college athletes. The most recent four-year APR average for Division I was 974, up one point over last...

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....

Scandals overshadow joy as NCAA prepares to celebrate Final Four

2013-04-03 13:59:00

The NCAA tournament, celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, is desperately hoping to get to this weekend’s Final Four before another scandal breaks. The odds right now in Las Vegas, where the Pac-12 Conference recently held its postseason...

Kevin Ware of Louisville tweets he'll 'be back by next season'

2013-04-02 08:08:00

Kevin Ware was a busy guy on Monday. After having surgery on his broken right leg the night before, the Louisville guard spent part of the day up and about on crutches at the advice of his doctors. He entertained numerous visitors, including Coach...

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...

Ariya Jutanugarn leads LPGA Thailand by three strokes

2013-02-23 20:59:00

Thai teenager Ariya Jutanugarn shot a two-under 70 to lead by three strokes after the third round of the LPGA Thailand at Chonburi despite finishing with two bogeys. Last year's top-ranked amateur, Ariya, 17 years old, had seven birdies —...

College football rankings with bowl-game twist

2012-12-05 17:15:00

Rankman and SportsBusiness Journal have teamed up for a first-they-have-heard-about-it collaboration based on SBJ's seventh annual analysis of bowl gifts provided to players. This year's most popular gift is the Fossil watch, provided at 19 of the 35...

Penn State is no match for heavy hand of the NCAA

2012-09-08 17:55:00

The NCAA's plan to cripple Penn State as it humiliates innocent players could not be working out better. The NCAA defeated Penn State, 17-16, on Saturday to improve its record to 2-0. This week, the organization embedded in the University of Virginia....

Digest: Missouri-Kansas City's Hall accepts post as UMBC AD

2013-06-19 00:00:00

Administration Missouri-Kansas City's Hall accepts post as UMBC AD UMBC announced the appointment of Tim Hall as athletic director, effective July 8. Hall has served as AD at Missouri-Kansas City since February 2007. He succeeds Charles Brown, who...

NCAA president creating council of ADs to help with operations

2013-06-17 11:46:00

In a move that signifies a change in its age-old philosophy, the NCAA is working towards including athletic directors in more key issues. Part of that move begins with the creation of a new council composed of athletic directors that will meet regularly...

Lefty, Hockey And The Thin Line Between Praise and Over-Glorification

2013-06-17 00:00:00

The thinnest line in sports writing has less to do with winning and losing, and certainly much less to do with any degree of criticism. It strikes me on this great Father's Day sports weekend that the thinnest line is the one between the appropriate...

Briefs: Two 'Eaters sign

2013-06-15 23:17:34

Matt Whitehouse, a junior pitcher for UC Irvine in 2013, has signed with the Cleveland Indians on Friday and has been assigned to the Mohoning Valley Scrappers, their short-season Single-A affiliate in the New York-Penn League. Whitehouse was chosen in...

NCAA President Mark Emmert, shown in April, touted the improved classroom success of the NCAA's student-athletes.

2013-04-25 00:00:00

From left, UM President Donna Shalala, booster Nevin Shapiro and NCAA President Mark Emmert.

2013-02-18 00:00:00