Myles Brand, who fired Bob Knight as Indiana University basketball coach and went on to become NCAA president, died Wednesday of pancreatic cancer. He was 67. ...more

September 17, 2009

Florida State University will appeal the part of an NCAA sanction that would take away wins in 10 sports, including as many as 14 in football. ...more

March 16, 2009

Florida State is gearing up for another fight with the NCAA. The university likely will appeal an NCAA ruling that 10 teams must vacate victories in which ineligible student-athletes involved in an academic-misconduct case had participated in athletic competition before being reinstated. The case involved 61 student-athletes and three former FSU employees, and largely centered on a tutor providing answers to quizzes for an online music course. ...more

March 7, 2009

Even the NCAA wants to make sure Tim Tebow, the University of Florida's All-American person and star quarterback, is not tripped up by one of the organization's many rules and restrictions that often seem to go ridiculous extremes. The NCAA, college sport's governing body, announced that it worked closely with the UF athletic department to ensure Tebow's eligibility was not unknowingly affected by fundraising related to his father's missionary work. ...more

March 6, 2009

For the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Committee, the consideration of future Women's Final Four sites often requires a steady stream of visits to arenas, hotels and restaurants. ...more

November 22, 2008

For the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Committee, the consideration of future Women's Final Four sites often requires a steady stream of visits to arenas, hotels and restaurants. Sometimes, it's difficult for cities to make a distinguishing mark. But for the Tampa Bay area, which was just awarded the 2015 Women's Final Four on the heels of its successful performance last spring, an attention-grabbing approach has become standard procedure. ...more

November 21, 2008

On the same day Florida State announced the university was placing its athletic program on two years of probation as part of self-imposed sanctions relating to an academic cheating scandal, Indiana basketball coach Kelvin Sampson shared the spotlight after the NCAA announced Sampson was in violation of five potential "major" NCAA violations. ...more

February 16, 2008

It could be several months before Florida State University knows its final fate, but in a self-report of rules violations sent to the NCAA on Thursday, the school recommended that it be placed on two years probation - retroactive to Wednesday - and face scholarship reductions in multiple sports. ...more

February 15, 2008

Kelvin Sampson's future at Indiana was in doubt Wednesday following the release of an NCAA report that says he committed five "major" violations. ...more

February 14, 2008