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USC names Caryl Smith Gilbert director of track and field
Caryl Smith Gilbert, a former UCLA All-American, has been hired as USC’s director of track and field, the school announced. Smith Gilbert, 44, coached Central Florida’s women’s track and cross-country programs the last six seasons. She...
Tags: College Sports, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Justin Rose, Track and Field, Phil Mickelson
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Letters: College students' sexual choices
Re "Uncoupling the hookup culture," Opinion, May 28 As a sexuality educator and author, I applaud Bob Laird's article. But I do have one concern. He stated that Boston University religion professor and author Donna Freitas "denigrates abstinence...Tags: Social Sciences, Education, Colleges and Universities, Arts and Culture, Culture
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John Tortorella is fired as coach of New York Rangers
John Tortorella was defiant in stating that the New York Rangers didn't take a step back when they were knocked out of the Stanley Cup playoffs in the second round. General Manager Glen Sather thought otherwise and fired the combative coach Wednesday....
Tags: NFL Pro Bowl, Super Bowl, Pennsylvania Statue University Sexual Abuse Scandal (2012), Tiger Woods, National Football Conference
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Orb is 3-1 favorite in Belmont Stakes
Back home again in New York, Kentucky Derby winner Orb is the horse to beat in the Belmont Stakes. Orb was made the 3-1 morning-line favorite in a field of 14 entered for Saturday's final leg of the Triple Crown at Belmont Park, and trainer Shug...
Tags: Belmont Stakes, Pennsylvania Statue University Sexual Abuse Scandal (2012), Joel Rosario, Rex Ryan, Rosie Napravnik
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NBA owners vote to reject Sacramento Kings' proposed move to Seattle
NBA owners voted Wednesday to reject the Sacramento Kings' proposed move to Seattle, the latest in a long line of cities that have tried to land the franchise. The 22-8 vote in Dallas followed a recommendation made last month by the NBA's relocation...
Tags: Pension and Welfare, David Stern, Back Pain, Philadelphia Eagles, Kevin Johnson
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Walk-on Collin Mehring a rising star in UC Irvine volleyball
Collin Mehring had been a growing boy and a somewhat unreliable contributor to the UC Irvine men's volleyball team for two years while being an intense student in the school's acclaimed computer science engineering program. And that's hardly surprising....
Tags: College Sports, UC Irvine Anteaters, University of California, Irvine, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Science and Technology
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Parents, your college kids will still listen to you about drinking
Going to college can be a rough transition, full of new faces and schedules and freedoms. And parties. Lots of parties. Lots of chances to drink. And that gives plenty of parents pause. But a new study offers parents this encouraging news: Teenagers...
Tags: Students, Health and Safety at School, Education, Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning
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San Diego police plan no action related to Padres-Dodgers brawl
SAN DIEGO -- There were more than 24,000 witnesses at the location and many thousands more watching on television. And there is video and lots of still pictures showing what happened. But San Diego police plan no investigation or charges after the...
Tags: Prosecution, Petco Park, Crime, Law and Justice, Carlos Quentin, San Diego Padres
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Jerry Sandusky maintains innocence in recorded interview in prison
He may be out of sight, but former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky remains very much in mind, surfacing in recorded interviews to once again insist he was innocent of molesting children. Sandusky, 69, was convicted of 45 counts of...
Tags: Crimes, Colleges and Universities, FBI, Pennsylvania Statue University Sexual Abuse Scandal (2012), Graham Spanier
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NCAA sees bumps in the road, but schools pay for the damage
Come to find out, the creators of the dreaded "lack of institutional control" have been throwing stones from inside their own glass house. The NCAA, short for the National Collegiate Athletic Assn., is now in the kind of damage-control mode that it so...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Mark Emmert, College Sports, Shabazz Muhammad, NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
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Jerry Sandusky tries to appeal jury conviction -- again
Eight months after a jury convicted Jerry Sandusky of sexually molesting young boys, the former Penn State assistant football coach’s attorneys have again filed court documents asking the state appeals court to upend the decision. The notice of...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Jerry Sandusky, Lawyers, Justice System, Penn State Nittany Lions
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Online education groups add colleges from U.S. and overseas
L.A. NOWTwo of the emerging providers of online college classes, Coursera and edX, are announcing significant expansions in the numbers of campuses that will join their organizations and offer free courses. The high-powered competitors, both founded last year,...
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