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Rich Rodriguez provides thoughts on proposed sports gambling for college athletes
Gambling has been something in the world since the B.C.E. times when the Mesopotamians started playing dice. Sports gambling came soon after, but it's becoming more common around the United States over the past couple of years. 39 states allow sports gambling, plus Washington D.C., and Puerto ...
Nick Saban’s exit confirms a new era of college football
by Adam Minter For Alabama football coach Nick Saban, winning was always second to “the process.” He stressed the importance of putting the most effort and intensity on executing the current play, not the scoreboard. But it’s hard not to keep score when you think of the legendary ...
COLUMN: RaeQuan Battle never asked to be, but is now the face of a larger issue with college athletics
MORGANTOWN -- The moment WVU men’s basketball guard RaeQuan Battle took the witness stand in a federal court in Wheeling on Wednesday, he became the face of a movement thousands of times larger than his own 6-foot-5 frame. What started as a fight against the NCAA for Battle’s ...
NCAA guidance puts RaeQuan Battle's status for game against UMass into question
MORGANTOWN -- Even after a 14-day temporary restraining order (TRO) placed by a federal judge against the NCAA in enforcing its transfer rules, there is no clear-cut evidence that WVU will play senior guard RaeQuan Battle on Saturday against UMass. After taking a hit in a Wheeling federal ...