Articles in the ‘NCAA’ Category

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 [...]

Washington State signed on one of the most colourful characters in college football coaching, Mike Leach.
The deal, signed on Wednesday, was worth over $11 million through a timeframe of five years, and puts Leach in the top stratum of the Pacific-12 Conference coaches when it comes to salary. It includes a $2 million base [...]

Urban Meyer signed two contracts when he became Ohio State’s new football coach.
One was his contract with Ohio State, while the other was a contract with his young son and two college-aged daughters.
His son and daughters had him promise on the pink paper that he would not overdo things, he would not work [...]

An assistant football coach at Penn State who was criticized for not helping to stop the sexual assault by former coach Jerry Sandusky corrected the notion in an e-mail, claiming that he helped to stop the incident and alerted the police.
Assistant coach Mike McQueary’s e-mail to a former classmate in November 8 was obtained [...]