As first reported by TexAgs' Billy Liucci, and confirmed by ESPN, Johnny Manziel will be suspended for the first…
Jonathan Chait is an otherwise excellent journalist who will sometimes mount a terrible, sentimental defense of the NCAA, seemingly as a sort of party trick, like a guy opening beer bottles with his teeth. Stop that shit, writes Scott Lemieux. [TAP]
Big-time college football! Where a university system chancellor can be indistinguishable from a Paul Finebaum…
NCAA responds to backlash: Former Marine Steven Rhodes will not have to redshirt this year and retains four years of eligibility.
The NCAA has ruled that Steven Rhodes—a 24-year-old former Marine, now a walk-on freshman at Middle Tennessee State…
Our friends at Slate imagine a world in which the NCAA is allowed to run other American institutions. It will make you laugh. [Slate]
Jay Bilas's Twitter takedown of the NCAA's online store has sent a lot of people in search of more gems of…
An independent study, delivered yesterday to the desks of Mark Emmert and the NCAA D1 board of directors, finds that…
The NCAA isn't profiting off of "amateur" athletes' names or likenesses, OK? That's why that inconvenient search…
Because doing so would violate the spirit of amateurism. Rules are rules. Shipping not included.
Darren Rovell reports, under the Outside the Lines banner, that Johnny Manziel "agreed to sign memorabilia in exchange for a five-figure flat fee" in January, and that the NCAA is investigating. [ESPN]
Caporegime Larry Scott, who runs the NCAA's west coast crew as the commissioner of the Pac-12, wants to arrange some…
The University of Oregon just opened a brand new $68 million, 145,000-square foot football facility that would make…
Georgia lineman Kolton Houston failed an NCAA drug test during his freshman season in 2010. He then failed dozens…
Be sure to read Bryan Curtis's profile of Michael Dyer, the former Auburn running back who's determined to not let his career be derailed by idiotic "red flags." [Grantland]
The UNC academic scandal—that's much less scandal and much more conversation with the last person left in the world…
We told you last fall about Grand Canyon University, the for-profit school in Phoenix that began transitioning to…