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Sports

Ball State University Investigating Racist Notes in Basketball Coach Ronny Thompson’s Office

MUNCIE Ind. Ball State University is investigating the source of notes with racist language found in the offices of men’s basketball coach Ronny Thompson and his staff.

June 27, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Raises approved for Oklahoma University Athletic Director, football and basketball coaches

ARDMORE Okla. Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione and five of the Sooners’ head coaches including football coach Bob Stoops and basketball coaches Sherri Coale and Jeff Capel had raises approved Wednesday by the university’s Board of Regents.

June 27, 2007

Students

AUSTIN

ARDMORE Okla. Oklahoma’s women’s basketball program has completed a fundraising campaign to endow all 15 of its scholarships, OU athletic director Joe Castiglione said Wednesday.

June 26, 2007

Sports

ISU panel recommends ‘life skills assistant’ for football team

AMES Iowa A faculty committee has recommended that Iowa State University create a position to offer football players counseling or religious guidance.

June 26, 2007

Sports

UW-Madison athletic administrator dead at 46

MADISON Wis. Services have been scheduled Wednesday for Douglas Beard, a Maine native who became one of the senior administrators of the University of Wisconsin-Madison athletic department.

June 25, 2007

Sports

Student-athletes, the World Bank and the United Nations

As I settled in to listen to a panel of four recently graduated student-athletes discuss their views on college athletics, the last thing I expected to hear about was The World Bank, the United Nations and various countries’ GNPs.

June 20, 2007

Students

Small schools – Where Football Is An Activity, Not a Business

In college football, the big schools win and the small schools struggle.

June 16, 2007

Sports

Chasing More Than Just Wins

Black women coaches hope to inspire the next generation of athletes.

June 13, 2007

Sports

Black Women Coaches Hope to Inspire the Next Generation

Recent appointments of Black women coaches – like that of Cochese Washington at Penn State – raise the profile of African American women in Division I athletics, and provide hope and inspiration to the next generation.

June 13, 2007

Sports

Perspectives: A Different Kind of March Madness

There are numerous head coaching positions open among NCAA member institutions. Let’s watch if these schools make substantive efforts to hire minority head coaches as closely as we tuned into the tournament games.

April 3, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Congressional Panel Explores Options For Boosting Minorities In College Head Coaching Ranks

African Americans and other minorities are woefully underrepresented in the college coaching ranks – particularly in football – with few clear remedies in sight, witnesses told a House of Representatives panel Wednesday.

February 28, 2007

Leadership & Policy

University of Illinois To Retire Chief Illiniwek Performances

URBANA, Ill. The University of Illinois will retire its 81-year-old American Indian mascot, Chief Illiniwek, following the last men’s home basketball game of the season on Wednesday.

February 18, 2007