Articles in the ‘NCAA’ Category

Arkansas has formally announced the termination of Bobby Petrino as head football coach.
Athletic director Jeff Long said the termination was effective immediately, as a result of a five-day review following the Petrino’s confession of having a newly hired employee of the football program, Jessica Dorrell, on the back of his motorcycle at the time [...]

Syracuse revealed on Tuesday that center Fab Melo would no longer be playing in the NCAA tournament, reducing the chances of the top-seeded Orange to play for the national title.
A short news release was issued by the university describing Melo’s non-participation as caused by an eligibility concern. Further comment was declined, and Coach Jim [...]

Kentucky, North Carolina, and Syracuse all tried to conjure up some trouble prior to the coming out of the brackets, but the NCAA selection committee managed to ignore the noise.
Although the Wildcats, the Tar Heels, and the Orange lost over the weekend, they still wound up in the place they expected to be: top [...]

Joe Paterno died on Sunday, partly weakening the prosecution of the state of two former officials of Penn State University who have been charged with the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse case.
Paterno was supposed to serve as a key witness at the trials of former athletic director Tim Curley and former finance and business [...]

Matt Barkley’s dream of pursuing the NFL has been put on hold.
Playing as the starting quarterback of UFC for three years, which included a junior season that set tremendous records, Barkley had quickly shot up to the expected top-10 pick in the NFL April draft.
The quarterback had remained poised since June 2010, though, when [...]