Sports
A broken neck suffered by a Maryland high school wrestler last month and the deaths of two Virginia high school football players this past season have increased the attention focused on the safety precautions taken to protect teen-age athletes.
Jan. 11, 1987
Rich Shuebrooks, manager of basketball events for Nike, Inc., concludes his office voice mail message with a bit of philosophizing.
Oct. 17, 1993
Maryland athletic director Damon Evans says coach DJ Durkin is being placed on leave while the school reviews allegations of “unacceptable behavior by members of our football staff.”
Aug. 11, 2018
The NCAA ordered Notre Dame to forfeit two football scholarships as an institutional penalty for impropriety involving former Irish linebacker Demetrius DuBose and a Seattle couple with ties to the university.
May 27, 1993
Colleges and universities that are repeat violators could be forced to give up football or basketball for two years and the NCAA enforcement staff would gain far-reaching powers under a revolutionary series of measures approved Wednesday by the NCAA Council.
April 18, 1985
Archives
A decade of image packaging has amounted to a virtual revolution in the post-secondary-school sales pitch.
Oct. 16, 1988
Hurricanes, Cornhuskers Lag in Classroom, but Some Say Numbers Misleading
Jan. 3, 2002
Less than two weeks after losing a member for the first time in 41 years, the ACC has added the University of Louisville.
Nov. 28, 2012
University of Maryland Athletic Director Lew Perkins says he and other school officials will look into, but probably not challenge, 13 categories of allegations by the National Collegiate Athletic Assn. against the men’s basketball program.
Oct. 19, 1989
The NCAA tournament resumes this weekend … or rather the NZAA tournament in which the “Z” stands for Zion Williamson.
March 29, 2019