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George Mason makes 'bittersweet' move to A-10
Think Syracuse in the Big East. Or Maryland in the Atlantic Coast Conference. That's the sort of emotional tie George Mason had with the Colonial ...
Tebow helps Wichita State celebrate NCAA victory
Wichita State University's men's basketball team got an unexpected new fan when they arrived home after their latest NCAA tournament victory. A plane ...
Official: George Mason to join Atlantic 10 in July
First VCU, now George Mason. The two mid-majors that made stunning runs to the Final Four from the Colonial Athletic Association will reunite in the ...
Harvard's 1st NCAA win brings 'unexpected pride'
Michael Lesley crisscrossed Harvard Yard, looking up from his copy of David Hume's "The Natural History of Religion" only to avoid the tourists that ...
Alabama hires Bill Battle as athletic director
Bill Battle was cutting trees downed in a recent storm on his suburban Atlanta farm when alma mater Alabama called a couple of weeks ago. Now, the ...
A guide to the NCAA games
The NCAA tournament will not have a repeat champion for the sixth straight season. Kentucky made sure of that by failing to make the field of 68.
AP source: Butler, Creighton, Xavier to Big East
The two conferences growing out of the old Big East are moving forward. Butler, Creighton and Xavier will join the so-called Catholic 7 schools in the ...
SEC seeking answers after getting only 3 NCAA bids
Frustrated Southeastern Conference coaches think their league is treated more like a mid-major rather than a BCS conference. The coaches said Monday ...
Ohio AG could target football coach, host of party
The head football coach at Steubenville High School and the owners of a house where an infamous 12-minute video was filmed could be investigated as ...
Former Oklahoma QB Steve Davis dead at 60
As a child, Steve Davis dreamed of playing for Oklahoma and even tucked away a picture of the Sooners' quarterback he idolized in his dresser drawer.
The bracket lives before the games
Drop the pen. Everybody knows no ink makes contact with a bracket sheet until Monday night at the earliest. Until it's deadline time, pencils are ...
Small schools come up big in NCAA tourney field
Boise State coach Leon Rice was hoping for the best and secretly dreading the worst when he gathered his team to watch the NCAA tournament selection ...
2 Ohio football players convicted of raping girl
Two members of Steubenville's celebrated high school football team were found guilty Sunday of raping a drunken 16-year-old girl, and Ohio's attorney ...
No. 7 Kansas beats No. 11 K-State for Big 12 title
One by one, Kansas players headed to the top step of the ladder to cut down the nets, with Jeff Withey carefully nipping at a piece of nylon and then ...
Wisconsin reloads at RB with Montee Ball gone
Wisconsin opened spring practices this month with Montee Ball watching nearby — an odd experience for someone who had been a fixture in the Badgers' ...
No. 11 K- State beats Texas in Big 12 quarters
It didn't seem to matter what Rodney McGruder did — fire away over the Texas zone, pull up in the lane or take a pass from Angel Rodriguez down low.
No. 5 Georgetown pulls away from Cincy at Big East
After coughing up a big lead in the middle of the game, Otto Porter Jr. and his Georgetown teammates showed off all the attributes that make them a ...
Sooners' Johnson positions self as high draft pick
While his teammates were sprinting as fast as they could in front of NFL scouts and working up a sweat throwing and catching passes, Lane Johnson had ...
Georgetown has Big East coach, player of the year
John Thompson, the first of the Georgetown coaches with that name, was sitting on a raised area just feet from where John Thompson III was accepting ...
Notre Dame to join ACC next season
Goodbye Madison Square Garden, Georgetown and Villanova. Hello Greensboro Coliseum, North Carolina and Duke. A year from now, Notre Dame men's ...
Kingsbury, Fleck lead wave of 30-something coaches
With spring football beginning on campuses around the country this month, six 30-something coaches are getting their first crack at running a program.
Warrant: Agent provided ex-UNC players cash
Investigators in North Carolina say a Georgia-based sports agent violated sports agent laws by sending cash payments to former Tar Heels football ...
No. 5 Georgetown beats No. 17 Syracuse 61-39
Georgetown coach John Thompson III was noting all the ways — and there were many — in which his team's lopsided, Big East-closing victory over ...
2 Ohio football players face trial in rape case
Two high school football players go on trial this coming week on charges of raping a nearly passed-out-drunk 16-year-old girl during a night of ...
Big East completes football-basketball breakup
When the Big East divorce was complete, the basketball schools got the early separation they wanted, the name of the conference many of them founded ...