Athletics

The NCAA's Division I leaders backtrack on multiple academic and recruiting rules they pushed through as part of recent reform efforts.

Students at the University of New Mexico, again asked to shoulder a larger financial burden to support athletics, feel their protests are being ignored. Their experience is common.

Lawyers, university presidents and former NCAA officials say that the lawsuit against the NCAA has the potential to go far, but disagree on whether it will be transformative for college sports.

Higher education and athletics leaders explore ways to adapt to today’s commercialized environment, with the most controversial suggestion -- turning program management over to ADs -- coming from a university chancellor.

In college athletics, the danger of head trauma is clear. Less clear is how prevalent it is or what to do about it.

The NCAA says athletes can't share in the revenue that third parties gain by using their likeness, but its reasoning doesn't hold up, a new report argues.

The silver lining in the abysmal story of Mike Rice's firing at Rutgers, writes Murray Sperber: journalists and the public are less tolerant of abusive treatment of players. (Hopefully campus leaders will catch up soon.)