NCAA panel has tough decisions at top
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Gary Walters understands the difficulty in filling those final spots for the NCAA field. This year, however, his selection committee faces a new twist &#151; picking the top seeds. With Florida's late-season struggles, Wisconsin's injuries and Kansas' power ranking, Walters acknowledged Wednesday that putting together the 65-team field this weekend will be far from clear-cut.
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The NCAA won a court case Monday to keep the 2-in-4 exempt tournament rule in place, but it may not make it to the 2005-06 season after the NCAA management council votes on two key proposals at the January convention in Indianapolis.
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But decision sparks more big questions over fairness
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&quot;It was an extremely difficult decision,&quot; Athletic Director Ted Leland said, &quot;but I simply felt that the program was in need of new direction and leadership.
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College hockey fans may have noticed an increase in penalties as local teams play early in the season, a result of the emphasis the NCAA commissioners and supervisors of officials and NCAA men's and women's ice hockey rules committee have placed on rules enforcement.
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With most Division 2 teams preparing for their final regular-season games, the NCAA playoff picture is beginning to take shape.
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After all the hoopla surrounding the suspensions of Ron Artest and Jermaine O&#39;Neal, the final decision will be decided in the Courts rather than on the court.
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The Southeastern Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference will review tapes of the fight that broke out in the fourth quarter of the Clemson-South Carolina game before deciding on penalties.
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At 21 wins, Maryland should be a lock for an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament which should stiff-arm the boo-birds who had been hinting that Gary Williams' job is on the line.
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An NCAA committee recommended Wednesday reversing rules enacted last season to shorten football games because the changes resulted in fewer plays being run and confusion at the end of games.
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It gets crazier and more emotional every year, but what in sports doesn't? The build up to the NCAA men's basketball tournament is starting to get like recruiting. Bracketology -- I hope whoever coined that word is getting some money out of it -- is an end in itself, building up to last night's "Selection Show." People put out 65-team ...
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With the school basketball tournament less than three weeks away, a dispute between game officials and the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association over a new handshake rule could leave a shortage of officials and an altered postseason schedule.
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&#39;&#39;It was an extremely difficult decision, but I simply felt that the program was in need of new direction and leadership,&#39;&#39; athletic director Ted Leland said Monday.
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An antitrust committee was supposed to examine the potential deal on Friday but says '"scheduling conflicts" got in the way.
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There&#39;s a reason that the NCAA Division IA commissioners dread the idea of repairing the hole in the BCS rating formula left by the Associated Press, which pulled its poll.
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Tough steroid testing is on the way, apparently. It&#39;s too bad that it took ugly BALCO testimony and Senate threats to force Don Fehr and Gene Orza, the leaders of the union, to pull their heads out of the sand.
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The European Commission faces a battle with sport's governing bodies over its ability to regulate sport.