Sportsview: Colleges Have New Symbol
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Short of winning a national championship, nothing says you've arrived in college football these days quite like going to a bowl game with a coach who already has one foot out the door. It's becoming the game's newest status symbol.
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SeaDour writes &quot;CNET News has an interesting perspective on the changing face of technology on campus. These days, students are showing more interest in the tech perks that campuses have to offer, and universities are taking notice.
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The T-shirt was the brainchild of Bob Rose, the University of California&#39;s aptly named executive associate athletic director for communications, and it speaks to the school&#39;s football revival on numerous levels.
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The NCAA is forming a task force of university presidents to help athletic departments cope with soaring costs.
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USC is the country&#39;s top-ranked team, in no small part due to its fetish for the football. It&#39;s apparent in everything from T-shirts the program special ordered for players -- which read &quot;It&#39;s All About the
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At more than 40 colleges, advertising signs are for the first time being affixed to backboards on basketball courts.
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A proposal to fight academic fraud by having colleges monitor student-athletes' courses, instructors and grades will be part of a reform plan considered Thursday when the Coalition for Intercollegiate Athletics opens its first meeting.
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Maybe. Among the nearly 150 items proposed to pass into NCAA law for next year is one that will change when NCAA Division I basketball teams can begin practice, from the current &quot;Saturday nearest to Oct.
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&quot;Colleges are presenting themselves to the public, educated and uneducated alike, as places of mere physical sport and not as educational training institutions,&quot; the quote goes.
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Be careful, Boston College. The Eagles were the new No. 2 in the Top 25 released Sunday, a ranking that's been more of a burden than a reward recently.
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These days Mean Green means more than the green-jerseyed football team at the University of North Texas.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The championship flag may be flying at Gillette Stadium, but what does it mean a year later?
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You can hear the sounds, and feel the energy, the tension, and the anticipation. College football will decide conference championships and bowl bids tomorrow. That's the main story.
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The NCAA and U.S. Olympic Committee are studying ways to preserve traditional Olympic sports at colleges.
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A private college is raising eyebrows with a recruiting postcard that shows a man surrounded by women and says students have the opportunity to "play the field."
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By Adam Smeltz, The Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa.  Sep.
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They're visiting the defending Division 1-AA national champions, the top-ranked team in both preseason polls, in a venue that is one of the most difficult for visiting teams. They're trying to turn around what was once one of the best 1-AA programs in New England but has had six losing seasons in seven years.