Carol Folt, the university chancellor, with Tom Ross, the university president. She said the fake classes thrived for so long because it was hard for people to fathom that they could even exist.
A report finds that classes requiring no attendance and little work were common knowledge among academic counselors and football coaches.
Hunter Pence has been low maintenance and high performance for the Giants.
The quirky, wild-eyed Pence had a home run and double in Game 1 of the World Series, and has been integral to the Giants’ success since he arrived in 2012.
Bumgarner was almost flawless over seven innings, allowing one run and three hits and striking out five as San Francisco became the first team to beat Kansas City this postseason.
Mississippi’s stifling defense and up-tempo offense are based on schemes Hugh Freeze used as a basketball coach.
Freeze, whose No. 3 Rebels play at No. 24 Louisiana State on Saturday, honed his approach while leading a girls’ high school basketball team in Memphis.
As the antitrust case heads to appeal, the N.C.A.A., athletic directors and university presidents are left to wrestle with what sort of change is permissible and what is not.
Sam, the first openly gay player to be drafted by an N.F.L. team, spent seven weeks on the Cowboys’ practice squad after being released in training camp by the Rams.
Seattle, the N.F.L.'s defending champion, is in danger of missing the postseason after the Rams used two trick plays to win on Sunday.
The Devils, who had a 3-1 lead early in the third period, fell to the Rangers on Kevin Klein’s overtime goal.
Lundqvist denied three shooters in rapid succession late in the third period, and Kevin Klein’s overtime score capped a three-goal rally for the Rangers, who have won three straight.
A day after defenseman Slava Voynov was suspended indefinitely, General Manager Dean Lombardi found himself wondering why he, and the N.H.L., had not done more to address the issue.
Even as it is aligning itself with the marathon, one of the city’s most storied athletic events, Airbnb is at loggerheads with the New York attorney general’s office and local hotels.
The South African track star, who was found guilty of culpable homicide in the killing of his girlfriend, was also given a suspended three-year term on separate firearms charges.
Almost 70 years after Jackie Robinson integrated baseball, the upstart Royals are using the same formula that made Robinson and his Negro leagues team, the Kansas City Monarchs, so compelling.
The school board made the move in response to hazing and abuse allegations against players on the New Jersey team.
Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski, whose analysis drew praise during the Winter Olympics in Sochi, have earned an expected promotion to the lead team for the sport on the NBC Sports Group.
Running backs Denard Robinson, Tre Mason and Bryce Brown are the top pickups this week.
Images of major league baseball in Kansas City, which included the Athletics, who moved to Oakland, and the expansion Royals, who won a World Series in 1985.
The chart compares Manning with his counterparts in league history, spanning more than 250 quarterbacks with at least 30 career touchdown passes since 1930.
We’ve published maps showing where fan support for one team begins and another ends for baseball and basketball. Now we’re pleased to offer another one: the United States according to college football fans.
In Arizona this month, in games involving some of the sport’s top young prospects, baseball is experimenting with new rules aimed at quickening the time that it takes to play nine innings.
When Bonds tossed out the first pitch for a Giants game last week, it was an overdue return for a man treated more harshly than many others part of an era of hypocrisy.
NFL Now, a mobile video service, provides game highlights, updates and news reports directly to fans and competes with TV and cable networks.
Federer, who could become the oldest year-end No. 1 in history, also has a chance to help Switzerland win the Davis Cup for the first time.
Manager Dick Howser, spurned by Steinbrenner, the Yankees’ owner, led the Royals to their 1985 World Series title.
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