University of North Carolina at Wilmington

The University of Oregon has acknowledged major NCAA violations in connection with football recruiting and proposed a self-imposed two-year probation with the loss of one scholarship in each of the next three years, according to documents released by...

College basketball Booth named Loyola men's assistant coach Former Maryland basketball star and assistant coach Keith Booth, who has spent the past two years as an assistant women's coach at Loyola, was added Tuesday to the men's staff by newly...

Cynthia Cooper-Dyke is coming home. The Los Angeles Locke High alum who played on two NCAA championship teams at USC and competed in the WNBA was hired as USC's women's basketball coach, the school announced Thursday. Cooper-Dyke, who coached last...

|TV SPORTS| Major League Baseball--Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh Pirates, 11:30 a.m. (WGN); Detroit Tigers at Minnesota Twins, Noon (FXSP) Tennis--WTA Family Circle Cup, Noon (ESPN2) NBA Basketball--Chicago Bulls at Brooklyn Nets, 6 p.m. (TNT); San...

There’s no telling where and when Old Dominion’s basketball coaching search will end. Athletic director Wood Selig’s inbox and cell phone remain flooded with pleas and recommendations, and a committee soon will be in place to sift...

Colton St. Cyr, who led Lafayette High to the Region I boys basketball semifinals the past two years, signed a full Division I scholarship on Wednesday to play for Coastal Carolina University, a Big South Conference school in Myrtle Beach, S.C. St. Cyr,...

|TV SPORTS| |SATURDAY| Soccer--Premier League, 8:55 a.m. (ESPN2); MLS Playoffs, Eastern Conference Championship, First Leg, 2:30 p.m. (NBC) College Football--Arkansas at South Carolina, 11 a.m. (CBS); Iowa State at Texas, 11 a.m. (ABC); Northwestern...

Soccer D.C. United can end 5-year playoff drought tonight By defeating or tying the Columbus Crew tonight at RFK Stadium, D.C. United would end a five-year Major League Soccer playoff drought. Even with a loss, United would clinch if the Houston...

An extra year at junior college and a torn ACL seven months before his Texas Southern debut were just two of the many obstacles standing between Omar Strong and Division I basketball. The challenges that Strong faced before college didn’t end...

Terry Maczko’s strategy for turning Baltimore City Community Collegeinto a JUCO power was simple: load up on this city’s top high school talent. After guiding the Panthers (25-12) to the Region XX tournament championship and a sixth-place...

It seems a simple question: Can schools on their way out the Colonial Athletic Association door compete for conference championships? Yes or no. Thumbs up or down. Apparently not. League presidents decided last Tuesday whether Old Dominion and Georgia...

Coaches love a cause, especially an us-against-the-world cause. Old Dominion’s teams have just that in 2012-13. The Monarchs’ foil will be anyone and everyone associated with the Colonial Athletic Association, which Tuesday affirmed that...