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I am generally not a fan of the idea that sunshine and transparency is the universal disinfectant, especially when it comes to college athletics. There are too many justifications, rationalizations, and rose-colored glasses to go around. Simply requiring that athletic departments air dirty laundry works selectively at best, rarely at worst. But the SEC is […]
As the college basketball season winds to a close, it means another season is about to start up: transfer season. Despite the best efforts of the NCAA, conferences, and schools, men’s basketball still has a high rate of transfers. Last year Jeff Goodman of CBSSports.com had his list hit almost 450, and transfer continued right […]
As LA Galaxy and US National Team midfielder Landon Donovan works his way back to fitness after taking some additional time for himself this offseason, he stopped by in Wisconsin where his brother lived and trained with the Badgers soccer team: “He was focused, totally,” [captain Tomislav Zardo] said. “Whatever the coach (John Trask) said, […]
In a “Mike and Mike” interview, NCAA President Mark Emmert took a moment to praise Penn State for its progress in the wake of the Sandusky scandal and sanctions: “The university, I need to add, is being incredibly cooperative and helpful in all of this,” Emmert said. “I think that, in the midst of all […]
Today the NCAA issued three staff interpretations of rules in the Division I Manual. Two were not exactly noteworthy, but one could have a bit of an impact although not in the revenue sports of football and men’s basketball. The first dealt with part-time students serving as official visit hosts, and the NCAA (quite logically) […]
The World Anti-Doping Agency took the unusual step of issuing an alert and even contacting suspected cheating athletes about GW 501516, sold under the supplement name “Endurobol”. What exactly is GW 501516? From Wikipedia: GW–50156 regulates fat burning through a number of widespread mechanisms; it increases glucose uptake in skeletal muscle tissue and increases muscle […]
There is a new service that will become a pain for athletic departments, particularly the compliance office. Let Me Tweet That For You is a service that lets you spoof a tweet from any Twitter user. It generates a realistic looking image of a fake tweet, complete with avatars, Twitter’s links and buttons, even fake […]
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi will finish four years of NCAA probation on Monday for a wide-ranging of violations that mostly started and ended with a failure to report violations. The Corpus Christi Caller-Times had a breakdown of the changes that the Islanders made over the last four years: “One of the huge changes we made that […]
As the fight over recruiting communication regulations moves on to the next phase, it is instructive to look back at how and why text messages were banned back in 2007. The story shows how every group involved has changed their mind about text messages. And how with coaches the biggest problem is not what the […]
Today Freakonomics posted a pay-for-play plan for college basketball players. As one would expect from economists, it boiled down to “no rules, let the free market decide”. Considering that we may be 5–10 years and a coin flip away from this no being a thought exercise and becoming a legally mandated negotiation, I have three […]
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