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Former WVU football coach Bill Stewart dead at 59
Former West Virginia football coach Bill Stewart, who was hailed as Rich Rodriguez's successor but wound up leaving the school in a messy split, died Monday of what athletic department officials said was an apparent heart attack. He was 59. Stewart's family notified the university and said Stewart had been ...
WVU: Ex-football coach Bill Stewart dies
Former West Virginia football coach Bill Stewart has died of what the athletic department says was an apparent heart attack. A statement issued by West Virginia spokesman Michael Fragale says Stewart's family notified the university on Monday. Fragale had no further details. Stewart resigned last summer and was replaced by ...
Big 12, SEC have deal for football champs to play
The Big 12 and the Southeastern conferences have announced a deal that will pit their football regular-season champions against each other in a New Year's Day bowl game for five years beginning in 2014, positioning themselves for the expected switch to a four-team playoff. In fact, SEC Commissioner Mike Slive ...
Big Ten network cuts academics, citing low ratings
The Big Ten cable network has been an unchallenged success promoting conference sports to a national audience and making money for its members. The academic programming its leaders had promised hasn't panned out. When the Big Ten Network launched in 2007, officials said it would promote the scholarly work done ...
Old Dominion leaving CAA for Conference USA
It only took football three years to become king at Old Dominion. Inspired by a program that has been wildly successful on the field and among Monarchs supporters, Old Dominion announced Thursday that it is leaving the Colonial Athletic Association for Conference USA, which will elevate the football program to ...
NCAA transfer restrictions won't be easily lifted
The NCAA is examining transfer rules after a spate of high-profile cases that has critics saying too much power is in the hands of athletic directors and coaches. The issue came to the forefront in men's basketball over the winter when 7-foot center Todd O'Brien went public with St. Joseph ...
SMU fires athletic director Steve Orsini
SMU athletic director Steve Orsini was fired Thursday, just four weeks after he and the Mustangs hired Hall of Fame basketball coach Larry Brown. The move was announced by SMU President R. Gerald Turner in a news release, and was effective immediately. "After several discussions over the last few weeks, ...
Delany: National title game likely to be bid on
How about a national championship game in Detroit? Or Minneapolis? What about Boston or New York? With college football headed toward a playoff, Big Ten administrators this week came out in favor of staging those games in bowls, a step that would keep the conference's longstanding ties to the Rose ...
Ex-Syracuse hoops coach's wife: Life is ruined
The wife of fired Syracuse University assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine claimed Wednesday that ESPN maliciously trampled her reputation by broadcasting salacious stories about her and about claims that her husband molested ball boys. Laurie Fine held a news conference Wednesday and threatened to file a libel lawsuit in federal ...
Sandusky renews effort to have charges thrown out
Jerry Sandusky again asked a judge to throw out the child sexual abuse charges against him on Wednesday, arguing that some counts are too vague to defend and others involve alleged victims whose identities have not been determined. The former Penn State assistant football coach's trial is scheduled to get ...
VCU leaves CAA, announces move to Atlantic 10
VCU is looking to make the most of its rise to prominence in men's basketball and President Michael Rao said moving to the Atlantic 10 is "the next step." The president said at press conference Tuesday to announce that VCU is leaving the Colonial Athletic Association to join the A-10 ...
NFL, union, NCAA supporting youth helmet program
The NFL, its players' union and the NCAA are donating money to provide new helmets to youth football players in low-income communities. They've joined with the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE) to commit a total of about $1 million to an initiative started by the U.S ...
FSU president lays out pros/cons of Big 12 move
The president of Florida State University says moving the athletic program from the Atlantic Coast Conference to the Big 12 has several drawbacks to be considered. FSU president Eric Barron sent an email to those who have asked him about the possibility of the Seminoles switching conferences. The email was ...
Geno: Griner had 'pretty good' chance at US team
Brittney Griner could have added an Olympic medal to her NCAA title. The Baylor star's chances of making the U.S. team for this summer's London Olympics were "pretty good" before she withdrew from consideration last month, U.S. coach Geno Auriemma said Monday. Griner cited an unspecified family illness and her ...
O'Brien offers glimpse into future on PSU caravan
Bill O'Brien has quickly put to rest any notion that he plans to stick around as long as the last Penn State football coach. Don't expect his tenure in Happy Valley to last 46 years. "I can tell you that 46 years from now, I'll be 88 years old. I ...
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