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NCAA recommends free year of eligibility for fall

College athletes who play fall sports, including football, will be given a free year of eligibility no matter how much they compete over the next 10 months if an NCAA recommendation is appro...

DATE: Aug 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: College Sports

Durango Fall Blaze goes virtual to support Fort Lewis College cycling

Big prizes available for fundraiser event

DATE: Aug 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: College Sports

Extra year of NCAA eligibility for fall athletes?

Whether college football players play a lot in the fall, a little in the spring or not all over the next 10 moths, some athletic administrators want to give them a mulligan on the 2020-21 se...

DATE: Aug 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: College Sports

No spring conference championship for RMAC football

Fort Lewis coach Smith wants to schedule games

DATE: Aug 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: College Sports

Senators lay out plan for college athletes bill of rights

A group of senators led by Cory Booker of New Jersey and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut on Thursday released a plan for reforming college sports with an athletes bill or rights. ...

DATE: Aug 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: College Sports

NCAA cancels fall championships as major football marches on

The NCAA called off fall championship events – a move Thursday that does not affect major college football – because not enough schools will be competing in sports such as men’s and women’s ...

DATE: Aug 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: College Sports

Big 12 moves ahead with fall football

Sports to being in September

DATE: Aug 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: College Sports

Rites of fall: Losing college football stings across America

Michigan’s Big House will be sitting empty when the leaves start to change this fall. Southern Cal’s famed white horse, Traveler, won’t be galloping triumphantly after a Trojans t...

DATE: Aug 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: College Sports

Ruling keeps NCAA from limiting some athlete compensation

WASHINGTON – A court decision the NCAA says will hurt college sports by allowing certain student-athletes to be paid “vast sums” of money as “educational expenses” will go into effect after ...

DATE: Aug 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: College Sports

Big Ten, Pac-12 cancel fall football amid pandemic

A crumbling college football season took a massive hit Tuesday when the Big Ten and Pac-12, two historic and powerful conferences, succumbed to the pandemic and canceled their fall football ...

DATE: Aug 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: College Sports

As college leaders meet, football players push to play

After the Power Five conference commissioners met Sunday to discuss mounting concern about whether a college football season can be played in a pandemic, players took to social media to urge...

DATE: Aug 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: College Sports

Colorado State promises investigation into allegations of racism, verbal abuse

With football activities suspended indefinitely, Colorado State will broaden an investigation into whether coronavirus protocols were ignored to include allegations of “racial insensitivity ...

DATE: Aug 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: College Sports