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College basketball and the NCAA are talking about stopping the practice of coaches offering scholarships to 8th graders. NCAA prez Myles Brand depicts this practice as “untoward.” Like a lot of things in college athletics, the elders have the upper hand. The scholarship offer is contingent on many one-sided factors, including the fulfillment of ridiculously [...]

In the opening round, May lost to Indianas Dave Herman, 4-1. 16 Ty Watterson of Oregon State eliminated May with a 7-0 decision. Big 12 Championships2006-May qualified for the NCAA Championships with a third-place finish at heavyweight in the Big 12 Championships. After a first-round overtime loss to Jake Hager, May pinned Sean Connole of [...]

I only looked in occasionally, but I got an inkling that it wasn’t going to be Rice’s day when I saw it was 11-0 in the 4th inning. In the end, it was Fresno St. And I meant to post this link earlier, but forgot. Lance Berkman talks about the first time Rice went to [...]

All coverage within BostonHerald.com from the last 7 days remains free of charge. Articles do not always include original photos, charts or graphics. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Leo Mazzone poses at his home in Roswell, Ga. One hundred and twenty years after he set the National League stolen base [...]

Ryan Wilkins hit a two-run homer to cap a four-run fifth inning that broke the game open for Lipscomb (33-28). Caleb Joseph and Blake Bratcher also went deep for the Bisons. Georgia (35-22-1) lost for the fifth time in six games and now faces an elimination game Saturday against either Georgia Tech or Louisville. Those [...]

Tincher has 651 strikeouts in 329 innings, giving her an NCAA-best 14 strikeouts per game. She ranks third in NCAA history with 2,121 strikeouts, putting her behind only U.S. Its very exciting and right now I am just trying to let it sink in, Tincher said. In March, Tincher threw a no-hitter in a 1-0 [...]

Write us with suggestions, news tips, photos, and ideas … And feel free to comment on our posts for others to read. Dtb poll — which Minnesota-affiliated athlete will finish highest at the NCAA Indoor Championships? DTB Poll — How do you feel about the 2008 Team Circuit Schedule and new scoring system? “It is [...]

Miami was selected as the top seed for the 64-team Division I college baseball tournament Monday, while two-time defending champion Oregon State was left out of the field. Miami, making its 36th straight tournament appearance to extend its NCAA record, was ranked No. 1 in various polls for the majority of the season and opens [...]

Because of the Memorial Day holiday, the Ticket Office, located across the street from Memorial Stadium, will not open until 8 a.m. The 2008 season marks the sixth time in the last eight years that Nebraska has been chosen to host an NCAA Baseball Regional (2001-03, 2005-06) and the fifth time since Hawks Field opened [...]

Le Moyne (15-1), the two-time defending national champion, broke open a 2-2 game with nine unanswered goals to earn a trip to the NCAA championship game next Sunday at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro. Bryant ends its season with a 14-4 record and the highest ranking in school history. In two years, Bryant has won two [...]

Radcliffe varsity eight suffered losses to defending NCAA champion Brown and No. The second varsity eight and novice eight also won twice. With an 11-3 overall record, the Radcliffe varsity eight ranks eighth in the latest Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association/USRowing national poll (May 14). Radcliffe finished second in the other two scoring varsity races, the [...]

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(5/8/08)The Colgate University mens lacrosse team will make its NCAA Tournament debut this weekend with a matchup against sixth-seeded Notre Dame in South Bend. A link is available on the Colgate Athletics Web site. Colgate and Notre Dame are facing off for just the second time in the programs’ histories. The Raiders and Fighting Irish [...]

6 Notre Dame, 9-2, in the final of the inaugural Great Western Lacrosse League tournament Sunday. The tournament title gives top-seed Notre Dame (13-2) the league’s automatic bid into the 2008 NCAA Championship. Sunday on ESPNU to see if they receive an at-large bid into the tourney. Notre Dame led, 3-1, at the end of [...]

But college coaches from across the land could watch some highlights and interviews of the event on CBS College Sports during Thursdays nights post-Lost telecast. The event was put on by Chris Melvin, Chuck Mound and Nick Lubischer, who for years have run the Elite College Combine each May in New Jersey. Because a new [...]

Texas A&M makes a big move and now leads the conference both in winning percentage and in RPI ranking. The Aggies moved from 22 all the way down to 6! A&M also became the first NCAA team to read the magic number of 40 wins, generally considered to be a mark of a great season. [...]

Nearly 150 teams face potential scholarship losses and another 26 are on the brink of a postseason ban because of poor academics. So these are serious penalties and there are a number of teams that received those,” Brand said after releasing this year’s Academic Progress Report. Overall scores improved by four points since the NCAA [...]

The NCAA’s annual academic progress report was released Tuesday. Central Michigan’s football team is among the programs penalized by the NCAA for failing to meet academic progress standards. The NCAA’s Academic Progress Report (APR) calculation measures eligibility and retention of student-athletes and is based on reforms the NCAA adopted several years ago to improve the [...]

Umpires mistakenly ruled that Tucholsky would need to be replaced with a pinch runner and that her home run would be reduced to a single, allowing only two of the three runs to count. The NCAA later said that the ruling was incorrect and that a pinch runner could have been substituted into the game [...]

The new producer for EA’s upcoming Madden 2009 is prepared to make quite a few necessary changes to the upcoming versions. Slide protection will also be added, lighting like seen in the NCAA 09 screenshots will also be in Madden 09 and lastly there will also be all new camera angles. I guess EA is [...]

Twenty-four hours after missing out on the Hobey Baker award, the nation’s leading scorer led Boston College to the NCAA hockey championship that had eluded the talent-laden Eagles the last two seasons. Gerbe had a hat trick in the semifinals against North Dakota and finished his command performance at the Frozen Four with five goals [...]

- Candace Parker had a whirlwind 24 hours. Parker was selected No. 1 by the Los Angeles Sparks in the WNBA draft on Wednesday, a day after capping her college career by leading Tennessee to a second straight NCAA title. “These last 15 hours or so have been just amazing,” Parker said. The Associated Press [...]

Johnson led Stanford to three NCAA Tournament appearances in his four years there, including a Sweet 16 finish this past season. The 51-year-old led Nevada to a Sweet 16 appearance before returning to Stanford, where he had been an assistant under Mike Montgomery. A native of Berkley, California, Johnson played his high school basketball in [...]

The first happy thing is that ESPN gave me an early birthday present last week, in the form of a two-year contract that will increase my level of responsibility at Page 2. The other thing is that a personal situation has come up that will require more of my attention. Both of these developments will [...]

Jim and I were going to debate tonight’s game here, but since I had to admit I don’t know which teams are playing and don’t know any of the players, we took a pass. Murrow High School in Brooklyn, which has no sports teams at all. Murrow Junior High School” — which it wasn’t. Now [...]

Well, the NCAA Basketball Championship Game last night between Kansas and Memphis could not be called disappointing in any way. Wow, what a game! Kansas is down by nine points with just over two minutes remaining in regulation. When Chalmers hit the three pointer to tie the game with just over 2 seconds left to [...]

I told you about the University of Kentucky barely making it to the NCAA tournament, also known as March Madness. Now I hear that Billy Gillespie has won the Coach of the Year award. Not bad for a coach who just arrived in town last year, not bad at all. You probably know about what [...]

14 Georgias miracle run Few teams entered the NCAA Tournament on a roll like Georgia. The Bulldogs won four straight games in the SEC Tournament, including three in two days. But Xavier ended that streak with a win in the opening round of the West Region on Thursday. Clintons troubles White Sox deep-six winless Tigers [...]

Sorry that yall have to go up against kansas. That is sad when you know the disappointment is coming. I grew up in Kansas but came to Vegas in 98 and now work for UNLV. Needless to say, UNLV is my adopted team but both the Jayhawks and Wildcats (Coach Ks alma mater) will always [...]

It is always sad to hear such stories but this one is particularly because the worst could have been avoided eventually. After a nice NCAA Career with Kentucky and Louisville, the Alabama native joined several European teams like Air Avellino or Paris. Several stints with NBA teams for Summer League play followed but he never [...]

Sorry that yall have to go up against kansas. That is sad when you know the disappointment is coming. I grew up in Kansas but came to Vegas in 98 and now work for UNLV. Needless to say, UNLV is my adopted team but both the Jayhawks and Wildcats (Coach Ks alma mater) will always [...]

14 Georgias miracle run Few teams entered the NCAA Tournament on a roll like Georgia. The Bulldogs won four straight games in the SEC Tournament, including three in two days. But Xavier ended that streak with a win in the opening round of the West Region on Thursday. 1 UConn for title game berth Pistons [...]

Sorry that yall have to go up against kansas. That is sad when you know the disappointment is coming. I grew up in Kansas but came to Vegas in 98 and now work for UNLV. Needless to say, UNLV is my adopted team but both the Jayhawks and Wildcats (Coach Ks alma mater) will always [...]

Sorry that yall have to go up against kansas. That is sad when you know the disappointment is coming. I grew up in Kansas but came to Vegas in 98 and now work for UNLV. Needless to say, UNLV is my adopted team but both the Jayhawks and Wildcats (Coach Ks alma mater) will always [...]

It is always sad to hear such stories but this one is particularly because the worst could have been avoided eventually. After a nice NCAA Career with Kentucky and Louisville, the Alabama native joined several European teams like Air Avellino or Paris. Several stints with NBA teams for Summer League play followed but he never [...]

Sorry that yall have to go up against kansas. That is sad when you know the disappointment is coming. I grew up in Kansas but came to Vegas in 98 and now work for UNLV. Needless to say, UNLV is my adopted team but both the Jayhawks and Wildcats (Coach Ks alma mater) will always [...]

It is always sad to hear such stories but this one is particularly because the worst could have been avoided eventually. After a nice NCAA Career with Kentucky and Louisville, the Alabama native joined several European teams like Air Avellino or Paris. Several stints with NBA teams for Summer League play followed but he never [...]

It is always sad to hear such stories but this one is particularly because the worst could have been avoided eventually. After a nice NCAA Career with Kentucky and Louisville, the Alabama native joined several European teams like Air Avellino or Paris. Several stints with NBA teams for Summer League play followed but he never [...]

It is always sad to hear such stories but this one is particularly because the worst could have been avoided eventually. After a nice NCAA Career with Kentucky and Louisville, the Alabama native joined several European teams like Air Avellino or Paris. Several stints with NBA teams for Summer League play followed but he never [...]