Top student-athletes talk about temptations
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When the Northeastern Conference invited 360 of the area's top student-athletes to Salem State last Friday for its first leadership gathering in close to a decade, the idea was to get students talking.
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The best athletes  can sense every  play before it even  happens. Coaches  have long assumed  that this magical  "field sense" was  unteachable. Maybe  they were wrong.
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The NCAA tournament's play-in game is drawing the ire of the historically black colleges and universities as their schools have earned the dubious distinction of being picked most often for the event.
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With a package of academic reforms in place, the NCAA&#39;s next crusade will address what its president calls a dangerous drift toward professionalism and sports entertainment.
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While professional leagues and Nascar appear to be taking the threat of terrorism seriously, officials worry that not enough is being done at college sports events.
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Candice Wiggins is a walking advertisement for the anti-drug effort. A star freshman for Stanford's basketball team, she showed up for a recent practice wearing a T-shirt reading: "No doubt about it. My health. My sport. My victory. I compete clean."
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As a professional evaluator of football talent, Bob Lichtenfels travels nationwide to rank thousands of high school players and break news stories about their college decisions.
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They're visiting the defending Division 1-AA national champions, the top-ranked team in both preseason polls, in a venue that is one of the most difficult for visiting teams. They're trying to turn around what was once one of the best 1-AA programs in New England but has had six losing seasons in seven years.
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The NCAA is forming a task force of university presidents to help athletic departments cope with soaring costs.
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The coaches lobby Joe Lunardi like politicians out stumping for votes. Players and athletic directors always pop by to schmooze and boast about big wins and bigger RPI.
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Successful athletes don&#39;t make the team because of their mediation skills. They are bullies with a purpose. If sportsman-like conduct isn&#39;t called forth during high testosterone moments, all is typically lost.
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. It&#39;s not just OK for students to eat on the run when they arrive at Mount Nittany Middle School in State College each morning.
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PULLMAN -â Last week, in studying USC game film, Cougar coaches thought they found a chink in the national championsâ armor. And not just any chink -â one with the potential, right from the get go, to
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In 2003, 17-year-old Genarlow Wilson was an honors student, standout athlete and homecoming king preparing for his SATs with an eye toward college. But that all changed after a New Year's Eve party involving alcohol, marijuana and sex.
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According to a Washington Post survey, nearly three dozen of the 117 Division I-A universities award academic credit to varsity athletes for participating in intercollegiate sports.
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The mind-set at Boston College is that of any game week. Practices and implementing the game plan.
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Earlier this month, just after 9:30 p.m., Rayna DuBose emerges from the Virginia Tech locker room to speak to 120 booster club members and children who had just watched the Hokies women's basketball team rout Richmond. DuBose doesn't want to keep the team's most devout supporters waiting, so she slips out of those three-inch heels and moves quickly to the room.