NCAA Compromises on Sunday Games
The National Collegiate Athletic Association has fashioned a compromise aimed at defusing a controversy over playing championship games on Sundays.
At a Chicago meeting Tuesday, the NCAA’s Division I board approved legislation giving schools with policies against competing on a particular day for religious reasons an opportunity for accommodation.
Last April, the NCAA division--which includes more than 300 of the largest colleges and universities--had eliminated a 35-year-old rule accommodating schools opposed to playing championship games on Sundays.
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