History, proximity, and the absence of competing sports alternatives within the state make this rivalry among the best in college sports.
Baverstock School and Specialist Sports College in Druids Heath, Birmingham, was one of the schools closed on Tuesday.
Hope the Harris hawk is being used twice a week at Sir John Hunt Community Sports College in Plymouth.
In the business of college athletics, where the stakes are high and the bottom line, winning, comes above all else, only those who themselves control the purse strings will in the end be the ones responsible for shaping the direction of college sports in this decade and beyond.
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The Pac 10 (soon to be the Pac 12) was stymied in their efforts to really shake up the college sports landscape by in essence creating a super conference which would have included teams like Texas and Oklahoma.
Capital One, the official banking and credit card of NCAA, has long been heavily invested in college sports.
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Move the athletic program to the highest level in college sports and hire a self-made millionaire basketball coach.
Because, like in college sports, the big name troupes are where scouts go.
Stony Brook was one of the feel-good stories last year in college sports.
Oregon and Maryland have made some of the biggest splashes in college sports with outrageous uniform patterns and colorways.
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This paradox exists in college sports as well, where colleges profit dramatically from athletes who are not compensated beyond scholarships.
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But this is college sports in the 21st century, so just as much is happening off the court as on it.
The NCAA has successfully cracked down on gambling in college sports because it dedicated significant resources and staff to address the problem.
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But in college sports, the NCAA has stacked the rules against the student-athletes by forbidding them to benefit financially from their athletic participation.
Then in May, the Pac-12 agreed to terms with both ESPN and FOX to establish the richest media rights deal in college sports.
If other similarly situated parents operated in kind, the paradigm of decision making would change for most of the impact players in college sports.
The value of money in college sports is hard to overstate.
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His ouster, at the hands of the Penn State board of trustees, was an unimaginable finish to one of the most venerated names in college sports.
Notre Dame is among the quintessential brands in college sports, and my previous article emphasizing the student in Fighting Irish student-athletes is part of the story.
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This kind of resentment, when mated to the sorts of opportunities that come from overzealous boosters and the like, is now responsible for most of the so-called scandals in college sports.
Look: I know there is a lot to be discouraged about in college sports and most of it is very serious business involving the lives of student-athletes and the abundant hypocrisies of the system.
Because in the current chaotic state of conference realignment in college sports, the only rational thing to do is stay one step ahead of the competition and look out for your own best interest financially.
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Paying college athletes is one way to make college sports in particular less about powerful coaches and the interests of top schools and more about the individual players who currently serve as glorified indentured servants.
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She said that many college professors across the country don't realize that Title IX of the 1972 federal education law, the same rule that requires equal opportunities for women in college sports, also applies to women who may miss classes or tests because of a pregnancy.
The idea of a small school nabbing a top coach from a major sports factory would be unthinkable in most other forms of college sports.
Clearly, the worst sports, in terms of parity, are the college sports, football and basketball.
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This NBA dream could endanger the best college sports town in America.
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Second, sports crazy young girls are getting powerful messages that beauty queen titles and tight pants may be hotter tickets to careers in sports than athletic scholarships or college degrees.
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Rutgers, on the verge of a showy entry into the Big Ten Conference, finds itself in yet another college-sports controversy, once more self-inflicted.
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