Struggles Continue for Athletes on the Fringes of Academics
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Would-be student athletes who enrolled at Miami prep school to boost grades in order to earn college scholarships struggle after school closed following a New York Times report.
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More than 45 players on at least 10 teams have been barred from playing in bowl games because of academic ineligibility or a failure to follow team rules.
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Some top prospects are a little overwhelmed after being thrown into the vortex of uncertainty, not knowing where they will start their careers and which trades they may be involved in.
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Many football players are taking advantage of a D.C. Public Schools provision that allows students to transfer to any school for any reason, causing schools like Eastern High School to have difficulty meeting the minimum to form a team.
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LEE METZGER and Shena Latta know they are taken seriously as academic counselors of the Boston College football team when they hear that players who are slipping in the classroom are ordered to run extra laps, are dismissed from the weight room, kicked out of practice for a week, and forced to trudge to their office and sheepishly mutter, &quot;Coach ...
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Professional baseball&#39;s drug problem taints not only America&#39;s pastime, but a generation of young people who now must wonder if they&#39;ll need performance-enhancing drugs to compete in big-time athletics.
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All around the country, the quaint notion of a student athlete has been stored in a hope chest amid a foolÂs-gold pursuit of big-time football.
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Most athletes will have back trouble sooner or later â if theyâre not suffering already. Hereâs what to do about it.
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They may have power as a group, but their junior-varsity status can get them into trouble
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Recent experiments show how hard it can be to balance academic success and socioeconomic and racial diversity.
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Sports doctors are often asked to compromise their care so athletes can return to their sport, say researchers.
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In sports, as in investing, the pressure is on. We suggest a coping strategy.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- When Said Ahmed finished third in the 800 meters at the NCAA Indoor Championships three years ago as a freshman with a career-best time of 1:47.80, he thought he was bound for glory every time he laced up his track shoes. He learned quickly how wrong he was. Now a junior at the University of Arkansas, the ...
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The Terps are reeling with problems on offense that demand more than a quick fix, and the line is teetering on the brink of serious trouble.
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- Most of America's weekend-warrior athletes know the bitter truth about their personal skill levels: They're getting slower, weaker, and creakier every year and no new gizmo will reverse that.
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Big-time college athletic departments who assert that their teams&#39; success leads to increased alumni donations and a better applicant pool have created an &quot;arms
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The New Jersey Institute of Technology menâs basketball team has not been able to overcome substantial obstacles and has lost more games than all but two N.C.A.A. Division I teams.