Mark Emmert

What's in a name? For the schools of the Catholic 7 — Georgetown, St. John's, Villanova, Seton Hall, Providence, Marquette and DePaul — it's everything. With no maiden name to fall back on, the Catholic 7 members were forced to do the next...

Bill O'Brien remembers the moment clearly. It was July 23, 2012 — five months after he was hired — and the 43-year-old O'Brien was sitting in his office watching the television. There on the screen was NCAA president Mark Emmert, somber...

Come to find out, the creators of the dreaded "lack of institutional control" have been throwing stones from inside their own glass house. The NCAA, short for the National Collegiate Athletic Assn., is now in the kind of damage-control mode that it so...

Exit plan a must Teddy Greenstein Chicago Tribune Mark Emmert needs to go. His rogue enforcement staff has heaped embarrassment on a group that already might have been less popular than Congress. And it's not as if the botched Miami case is the...

The Southeastern Conference needs to go on a diet. Forget the cabbage. Put away the watermelon. Leave the grapefruit for the health nuts. What the SEC needs to avoid is the cupcakes. Not the sugary sweet ones that you find next to the deli at the...

Thai teenager Ariya Jutanugarn shot a two-under 70 to lead by three strokes after the third round of the LPGA Thailand at Chonburi despite finishing with two bogeys. Last year's top-ranked amateur, Ariya, 17 years old, had seven birdies —...

At what point does one university president mutter over a burner phone to another university president, "Can we give the NCAA the death penalty?" Hopefully it's after reading page 22, footnotes 33 and 34, of the report on the investigation of the NCAA's...

The NCAA claims it found ‘missteps’ in its investigation into the University of Miami. Missteps? The NCAA flat out plummeted off the cliff on this one. No matter how you define it, the Miami investigation could become the NCAA’s...

As confusing, as surprising, as embarrassing, as unbearably long as this NCAA investigation of the University of Miami seems from the outside, an official on the inside adds another word. "Unprecedented,'' an NCAA investigator who worked on the Miami...

If you're a University of Miami fan, you're confident of one thing today. The NCAA is as covered with Nevin Shapiro's stench as you are. Maybe more. Its officials always flaunt toy badges and stand on the highest ground in the sewage plant they've...

Miami is inching closer to getting its NCAA notice of allegations, a list of major violations investigators suspect were committed by members of the Hurricanes' football and men's basketball staff. The NCAA announced Monday it has wrapped up a review...

If you think it's bad now, just wait. If you think college football recruiting has become too big and too time-consuming and too insanely excessive, just wait. If you think 17-year-old high school football players have become too self-important, too...