Tag: NCAA
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...
The math behind the perfect free throw
Larry M. Silverberg, North Carolina State University
Some 20 years ago, my colleague Dr. Chau Tran and I developed a way to simulate the trajectories...
The man responsible for making March Madness the moneymaking bonanza it...
Rick Eckstein, Villanova University
In a legendary “South Park” episode lampooning the NCAA, the character Eric Cartman asks a university president if he can purchase...
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...
