NCAA Scandal Rocks College Basketball Days Before March Madness
March Madness is going to be a little bit crazier than normal this year. Scandal is rocking college basketball just before the big tournament.
Nick Dimengo, Senior Editor at FHM Magazine, weighs in on the revelations made about payments to college basketball players. A number of top programs around the country are involved, including University of Arizona, Duke, and UNC.
Dimengo says he thinks a number of the teams involved in the scandal will still go all the way during March Madness. He says his Final Four are Duke, Villanova, Michigan State, and Wichita State.
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The police department in the remote north woods Minnesota town of Ely faces the same challenges of recruiting and keeping new officers as countless other law enforcement agencies across the country. So it's offering a unique incentive: canoes.
President Joe Biden told a gathering of Native American nations that he would support the bid by the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, which invented lacrosse, to compete in the sport under its own flag in the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
NCAA President Charlie Baker announced Tuesday that he wants the organization to create a new tier of Division I athletics where schools with the most resources can offer unlimited educational benefits, enter into name, image and likeness partnerships with athletes and directly pay them through a trust fund.
A men’s World Cup super-G was called off Sunday due to strong wind as weather led to the cancellation of all three ski races over the weekend in Beaver Creek, Colorado.
