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Big Ten 'Not Anywhere Near' Expansion Decision
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Last Updated:
4/27/2010
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The Big Ten Conference is still in the early stages of weighing expansion and "not anywhere near" the point of approaching prospective new schools, Commissioner Jim Delany said last Wednesday.
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Participation in NCAA Sports Continues to Climb
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Last Updated:
4/20/2010
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Despite an unforgiving economy pressuring schools to trim their athletics budgets, data from 2008-09 suggest NCAA institutions are offering participation opportunities to more student-athletes than ever before.
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Switch-Pitcher: More Than Just a Novelty Act
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Last Updated:
4/20/2010
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New York Yankees pitcher Pat Venditte got the attention of the sports world last month when he became baseball's first "switch-pitcher" in a spring training game - throwing to batters as both a right-hander and left-hander.
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Ocean Academy Aims to Send Postgraduate Basketball Players to College
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Last Updated:
4/20/2010
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As his plane descended on Newark Liberty International Airport in September, Eric Moreland wondered whether he had made the right decision. A talented 6-foot-9 forward from Houston who had recently graduated high school, Moreland needed a place to play until he could land a college scholarship.
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College Conferences Ponder Expansion, and Their Extinction
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Last Updated:
4/20/2010
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With the 11 Football Bowl Subdivision conference commissioners gathering in Scottsdale, Ariz., for the annual Bowl Championship Series meetings, the prospect of significant change in the collegiate conference landscape is becoming increasingly likely.
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NCAA Council Approves Sickle-Cell Screening Guidelines
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Last Updated:
4/19/2010
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The NCAA has approved legislation that will require athletes to take blood tests that show whether they are carriers of the sickle-cell trait, provide documentation that they already had the test or opt out of the test by signing a waiver that releases a school from liability.
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How top NFL Draft Prospects Ranked as College Recruits
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Last Updated:
4/19/2010
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When the census takers visit Oklahoma this year, they should ask an extra question: How did a state that contains a little more than one percent of the U.S. population produce three likely first-round draft picks from the same high school graduating class?
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Eye Black Messages, Wedge Blocks Out
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Last Updated:
4/17/2010
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Eye black with messages and wedge blocks will be banned from college football this fall, and taunting in the field of play will start costing teams points in 2011.
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Concussion Rule Revised, Strengthened in High School Football
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Last Updated:
4/13/2010
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Effective with the 2010 high school football season, any player who shows signs, symptoms or behaviors associated with a concussion must be removed from the game and shall not return to play until cleared by an appropriate health-care professional.
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