Tag: National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
Let’s get real with college athletes about their chances of going...
Angela Farmer, Mississippi State University
When the NFL draft takes place, it will represent a professional dream come true for the 224 college football players...
How big bonuses for winning coaches became a tradition in college...
Jasmine Harris, Ursinus College
As college football bowl and playoff games unfold before a TV audience of millions, most of the attention will be on...
DJ Durkin’s firing won’t solve college football’s deepest problems
Joseph Cooper, University of Connecticut and Jasmine Harris, Ursinus College
Maryland college football coach DJ Durkin was ultimately fired after the death of a player...
It’s naive to think college athletes have time for school
Jasmine Harris, Ursinus College
From my first day as a sociology professor at a university with a Division I football and men’s basketball team, education...
Dangerous stereotypes stalk black college athletes
Joseph Cooper, University of Connecticut
If you go strictly by the official account, heatstroke was the cause of death for University of Maryland football player...
Corporate CEOs’ political voice growing louder as they criticize Trump policies...
Jerry Davis, University of Michigan
America’s CEOs have become increasingly active on political issues that they would have shunned in prior years.
The latest example came...
What is March Madness – and the nonprofit that manages the...
Jay L. Zagorsky, The Ohio State University
The annual college basketball spectacle known as March Madness has arrived.
Millions of people will tune in to...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
