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An advocacy group is pushing a "bill of rights" for student-athletes aimed at increasing financial assistance to college players.
The New York Giants and New York Jets share an NFL stadium but their owners don't share political views. Woody Johnson of the Jets is a top fundraiser for GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, while Giants co-owner Jonathan Tisch is a generous backer of President Barack Obama.
Proponents of a college football playoff are launching a new national campaign aimed at taking down the BCS.
The NFL is looking to add a little political muscle to its efforts to get human growth hormone testing started this season.
A marketing company says it has received a Justice Department inquiry on how colleges and universities license merchandise that features school logos.
Baseball's new labor deal will limit the use of smokeless tobacco by players, but not ban it during games, as some public health groups had sought.
The Senate has scheduled the first congressional hearing in the wake of the Penn State child abuse scandal.
The head of the Bowl Championship Series told college and university presidents that the Obama administration was unlikely to challenge the legality of its selection process — and argued that even if the system were to be found illegal, so would a playoff.
Two House Democrats are urging Major League Baseball and the players union to implement testing for human growth hormone and ban chewing tobacco by players in uniform and in public view.
A Democratic congressman compared the NCAA to the Mafia over how it controls the lives of student athletes.
Two lawmakers who want the NFL to test players for human growth hormone say the players union might be stalling to avoid putting the test in place.
NCAA President Mark Emmert backed a proposal to allow conferences to increase grants to student athletes by $2,000, "to more closely approach" the full cost of attending college, beyond the athletic scholarships athletes receive for tuition, fees, room, board and books.
Two Virginia nuclear reactors shut down since an earthquake hit the state in August did not suffer damage that would prevent them from running and are ready to restart, the plant's operator told the government Friday.
A Democratic congressman will hold a round-table discussion Nov. 1 on the impact of "back-room deals, payoffs and scandals" in college sports.
Senators and medical witnesses Wednesday criticized some sports equipment makers for touting products as reducing concussions, saying they were misleading consumers because the claims are not justified by scientific evidence.
U.S. senators and health officials are taking on a baseball tradition older than the World Series itself: chewing tobacco on the diamond.
The players' union has told the NFL to hold off collecting blood for HGH testing, and the league isn't happy about it.
The NFL and the players union are set to meet with leaders of a House committee to discuss testing for human growth hormone, which has hit a snag despite an agreement in the latest collective bargaining agreement to begin testing players.
A Senate committee chairman said Wednesday that companies that market their sports equipment as helping to prevent concussions are making "empty, unsubstantiated" claims.
The average fair market value of top-tier college football and men's basketball players is over $100,000 each, and the athletes are entitled to at least a portion of that, a new report from an advocacy group argues.
The chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee is urging the NFL and the players union to begin testing for human growth hormone in time for next month's season start.
A political action committee that wants to change how the national college football champion is crowned had little success with its first strategy, raising money to elect lawmakers friendly to its cause of establishing a playoff system. It's made itself relevant, though, with another tactic — investigating the current bowl-game system and filing complaints about corruption and waste.
A group critical of the BCS is challenging the legality of a contract that calls for the Fiesta Bowl to receive more than $8 million over 20 years from an Arizona visitors bureau, and for the bowl to require teams and their affiliated groups to stay at hotels in Scottsdale and a nearby town.
Baseball players often say the best approach is to keep it simple. See the ball, hit the ball.
A group of coaches, parents and others is suing the Education Department over how it determines whether high schools are complying with the federal law that bans sex discrimination in schools that receive federal money.
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