Topic: National Collegiate Athletic Association

Women's NCAA basketball: Who's going to the Big Dance?

The women's NCAA basketball tournament, scheduled to start Saturday, has a field of 64 teams from across the country.
03/15/2011 04:35 pm

NCAA women's basketball: Test your knowledge

Since 1982, the NCAA has conducted a tournament to determine the champions of women's basketball. This year's event runs from first-round action March 19 and 20 to the Final Four April 3 and 5 at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. To gauge your knowledge of the women's game, or just to learn some interesting facts about it, try taking the following quiz.
03/15/2011 03:39 pm

In Pictures NCAA cheerleaders

NCAA tournament: A former coach, neighbors, and 11 degrees of Big East

NCAA tournament kicks off Tuesday night with a pair of play-in games. Once we get to Thursday, the NCAA tournament really gets cooking.
03/14/2011 04:55 pm

Horizons March Madness online: A technophile's guide to watching NCAA basketball

March Madness apps abound. We sort through some of the best.
03/13/2011 06:18 pm

Jim Tressel fiasco: Selling NCAA memorabilia? Wait.

Jim Tressel and six Ohio State players were tripped up by the NCAA's time-sensitive memorabilia rules. It's only illegal to sell it if players are still in school.
03/10/2011 11:04 am

Jim Tressel suspended after Ohio State football memorabilia sales

Jim Tressel has been suspended from Ohio State after the university learned that Tressel, the football team's head coach, had withheld information about players violating NCAA rules and continuing to let them play. Jim Tressel issued an apology.
03/09/2011 12:01 am

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The land the Super Bowl forgot: Is L.A. in line for a $1 billion stadium?

One company has vowed to build a $1 billion stadium to help L.A. entice the Super Bowl, the Final Four, and an NFL team. But there are skeptics as well as cheerleaders.
01/24/2011 08:31 pm

Death to the BCS

Three sportswriters call for sacking the Bowl Championship Series and replacing it with a true playoff.
01/10/2011 06:05 am

In Pictures NFL draft 2011 prospects

Will Stanford end UConn’s women’s basketball winning streak? Hmmmm.

UConn's women's basketball team has broken the NCAA winning streak record, even beating out UCLA's men's team, but Stanford may give them a run for their money tonight.
12/30/2010 12:30 pm

UConn women's basketball team tops UCLA men's record

The UConn women's basketball team have topped the UCLA men's basketball team's 88-game winning steak by winning 89 straight games.
12/21/2010 11:58 pm

Chapter & Verse 12 surprising things I learned from “The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History”

As a sports chronicle, “The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History” is not your father’s Oldsmobile.
12/21/2010 08:15 am

Cam Newton, despite dad's dealings, cleared by NCAA to play in SEC championship game Saturday

Cam Newton has been declared eligible to play in the SEC title game this weekend in Atlanta. The NCAA ruled on Newton's status after declaring his father did shop the junior college quarterback to another school.
12/01/2010 04:07 pm

In Pictures Heisman hopefuls

The Sports Economist Big sporting events hurt productivity? No!

We don't live to work. Play is important.
11/01/2010 09:40 am

In Pictures Football fanatics

Growthology Football economics: It's time to dis-incentivize sports injuries

In the wake of paralyzing injury to a Rutgers student, and mounting evidence of permanent brain damage in many others, it's time for new approach to sports injuries: all-fault insurance.
10/20/2010 01:05 pm

Vox News Obama on 'MythBusters': Will he get to blow something up?

With President Obama on Mythbusters in December, the show will revisit a popular myth about the 'Archimedes death ray.'
10/18/2010 11:49 am

Classic review: The Only Game in Town

A sparkling, eclectic collection of sports profiles from the pages of the New Yorker.
10/17/2010 09:05 am

Chapter & Verse Isabel Wilkerson, author of “The Warmth of Other Suns,” on "the biggest underreported story of the 20th century"

Why did 6 million US blacks leave their homes? Author Isabel Wilkerson talks about "the Great Migration" and how it reshaped the US.
10/14/2010 07:05 am

The Sports Economist NCAA contract negotiations: a rough-and-tumble sport of its own

Ink and dollars flow as leagues shift, new coaches get hired, coaches sue for not being hired... An update on new contracts in NCAA sports.
09/27/2010 01:40 pm

The Sports Economist Ethical and legal implications of NCAA rule-breaking

Some states have codified sports-league rules such that violating the league rules now has criminal penalties. Should more states and more sports follow this trend?
09/22/2010 12:05 pm

Reggie Bush injury Monday night could keep him on sidelines for six weeks

Reggie Bush of the Saints broke his leg in New Orleans' victory over the 49ers Monday night. The Saints will miss the pass catching, running and punt return abilities of Reggie Bush for the next six weeks.
09/21/2010 02:38 pm