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Dick Weiss
/ 11 years agoHeisman Trophy turning into a soap opera again
PHILADELPHIA — The Heisman Trophy race has turned into a soap opera again. This latest controversy to plague college football’s biggest award occurred this week...
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Dick Weiss
/ 11 years agoWiggins lives up to potential in second half of Kansas victory over Duke
CHICAGO — Suddenly, all those red flags NBA scouts have been waving at Andrew Wiggins have disappeared. The 6-8 Canadian import, who...
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Dick Weiss
/ 11 years agoO’Bannon law suit losing steam
CHICAGO— Ed O’Bannon’s case against the NCAA appears to have lost considerable steam. U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken has certified the lawsuit...
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Dick Weiss
/ 11 years agoTom Izzo Bucks the trend of one and dones
CHICAGO-– College basketball is rapidly escalating into an unwanted arms race. University of Kentucky coach John Calipari fired the first salvo...
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Dick Weiss
/ 11 years agoIs Julius Randle the best college player in the country?
CHICAGO— The hype for the Andrew Wiggins-Jabari Paker matchup when Kansas meets Duke in the Champions Classic doubleheader at the United Center here...
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Dick Weiss
/ 11 years agoNBA making push into Southeast Asia
When Mike Flynn of Blue Star and I visited Jakarta recently to cover the FIBA U18 World Championships last month, all anyone...
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Dick Weiss
/ 11 years agoGrambling Tigers’ rag about administration, forfeit game to Jackson State
Grambling State’s storied football program football suffered its worst embarrassment ever Saturday when players, protesting their treatment and overall decaying state of the program refused...
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Dick Weiss
/ 11 years agoVCU gets Smart, wins big with pressure.
NEW YORK – The calls have come in from North Carolina State, Minnesota and UCLA, just to mention a few. But each time,...
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Dick Weiss
/ 11 years agoHigh powered anti-trust lawyer to take aim at NCAA, Bloomberg reports
College athletes who want to be paid for their services by the National College Athletic Association, have found a powerful allie as they continue...
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Dick Weiss
/ 11 years agoU18 men’s loss in 3×3 wc points out flaws in overreliance on dunk
SINGAPORE– The shock waves are still reveberating through USA Basketball Grass roots after the U18 world 3×3championships in Jakarta. The U.S. men’s team,...
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Dick Weiss
/ 11 years agoEarl Campbell calls for Mack Brown to step down
In the midst of an unsettling season, this was probably the last thing Texas football coach Mack Brown needed to hear. Brown,...
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Dick Weiss
/ 11 years agoUConn axes Pasqualoni
SINGAPORE– It may have been lost in the shuffle after USC fired Lane Kiffin as its head football coach, but Connecticut...
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Dick Weiss
/ 11 years agoAlexander the great dominates U18 3×3 worlds
JAKARTA– FIBA has constantly been tinkering with the rules of 3×3 after introducing the sport internationally three years ago in an effort...
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Dick Weiss
/ 11 years agoPlayers protest NCAA treatment of student-athletes
A number of college football players, including quarterback Vad Lee and several others from Georgia Tech, lent their support to a protest against the way NCAA...
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Dick Weiss
/ 11 years agoNCAA president Mark Emmert takes hard line on paying players
NCAA president Mark Emmert recognizes there is a growing rift between big-money BCS schools and smaller institutions in terms off compensating student-athletes. But...
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Dick Weiss
/ 11 years agoJohnny Football is a Force of Nature
COLLEGE STATION, Tex. – Like him or hate him, Texas A & M’s Heisman Trophy winning sophomore quarterback Johnny Manziel is a force...