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A veteran college educator has been appointed interim president of Baltimore City Community College, the school's board of trustees announced Friday, after a string of controversies that led to the ouster of the school's president last month. Carolyn...

COLLEGE PARK — The University of Maryland is in serious discussions to join the Big Ten, and the Board of Regents plans to meet Monday to discuss the proposed move, according to two sources with knowledge of the talks. The regents were told about...

  WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Darrell Hazell spent most of his coaching career telling others to "be great." Now he'll try to live up to that mantra in his new job at Purdue. On Friday, Boilermakers athletic director Morgan Burke hired the 48-...

Seeing the official college football bowl schedule being announced on Sunday was like another jabbing poke to the ribs of former Lake Highland Prep standout Ty Law. He could have been extremely excited on Sunday, jumping around with his Southern...

NEW YORK — Susan Herbst says she isn't giving up. As the UConn basketball team made final preparations Tuesday night for the second half of the Jimmy V Classic doubleheader against No. 25 North Carolina State, the school's president had another...

  North Carolina State student Will Privette refused to let the fact that he is in a wheelchair stop him from celebrating the Wolfpack's 84-76 victory over No. 1 Duke on Saturday. And he has no regrets, even after being knocked over by a swarm of...

We know that universities often use forgiving admissions criteria to admit top athletes who wouldn't otherwise get in. But what happens to these football and basketball players once they arrive in their college classrooms? Do their grades ever catch...

It was an incredible weekend for the Northern Illinois football program. A 44-37 double-overtime victory over Kent State in the Mid-American Conference championship game kicked off the exhilaration Friday night at Ford Field in Detroit. That was followed...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Gov. Jay Nixon on Monday named Paul C. Wilson as the newest member of the Missouri Supreme Court.  Wilson, who has practiced law in both the public and private sectors and served as a judge on the Cole County Circuit Court, will...

Anyone who follows University of Virginia football anticipated and/or endorsed offseason staff changes. The Cavaliers’ fifth losing record in the last seven years and a ninth consecutive defeat to Virginia Tech could not be ignored. But few...

It has become part of college sports -- as ingrained as dunks and FieldTurf -- for large universities to accept prized basketball and football recruits and other athletes under more forgiving admissions criteria than are used for other students. Less...

When UConn began a national search for a new athletic director last January, President Susan Herbst used two words when asked what qualities she was looking for in that person. "Strong," Herbst said. "Smart." Last February when UConn hired Warde...