NCAA News Archive - 2009

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Mar 23, 2009 3:16:58 PM



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Academic and athletics success possible
Tomorrow, the Division I Leadership Council will meet to discuss, among other items, revising current membership requirements. When the topic was broached at the group's meeting in January, Chair Damon Evans, athletics director at Georgia, talked about balancing dominance in the classroom with dominance in competition...

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Utah State considers raising student fees
According to The Deseret Sun, students at Utah State are voting today and tomorrow on whether to raise their annual athletics fees. The increase, up from $113 to $243, would help the athletics departments' budget deficit. According to the newspaper...

Goal scoring is a family
Gustavus Adolphus men's ice hockey team may have fallen in the Division III championship game, but they made it there with the help of three brothers on the forward line: Patrick, Casey and Rory Dynan...

Tennessee falls in first round
Ball State ended Tennessee's title defense, upsetting the defending champions in the first round of the Women's NCAA Tournament on Sunday night...

Duke, UNC drop clothing-maker
The North Carolina schools join a growing list of institutions cutting ties with Russell Athletic after reports about the company's labor practices were released...

President Obama's bracket
President Obama correctly picked 14 of the 16 Sweet 16 teams. He also picked No. 3 Wake Forest (upset by No. 13 Cleveland State) and No. 5 Florida State (upset by No. 12 Wisconsin) in the Round of 16...

Tebow's speech lives on
Florida quarterback Tim Tebow's press conference speech, following the Gators' 31-30 upset loss to Ole Miss last year, has been inscribed on a plaque and placed outside the schools new football complex...


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