college sports
Former NC State football star enters Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District race
Rep. Jeremy Gray, D-Opelika, jumped into the 2nd Congressional District race on Thursday, becoming the third Democratic member of the Legislature to enter the contest. Gray, first elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in 2018, cited issues including reliable housing, childcare and women’s rights in an announcement on Facebook. “It’s time for a new […]
Former UNC basketball coach launches an airball with ill-informed advocacy
Former UNC women’s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell doesn’t appear to be an insincere person. At a rally at the Legislative Building on Aug. 16, organized by right-wing culture warriors in support of a bill to ban transgender girls and women from participating in middle, high school, and college level sports, Hatchell seemed to really believe the […]
September 9 Crucial Conversation: Why progressives should be working to keep state-sponsored sports gambling out of NC
Join us Thursday Sept. 9 at 3:30 pm for a very special Crucial Conversation: Why progressives should be working to keep state-sponsored sports gambling out of North Carolina Featuring Les Bernal, Executive Director of the national advocacy group, Stop Predatory Gambling. Click here to register. The North Carolina Senate recently took surprisingly swift action to […]
September 9 Crucial Conversation: Why progressives should be working to keep state-sponsored sports gambling out of NC
Join us Thursday Sept. 9 at 3:30 pm for a very special Crucial Conversation: Why progressives should be working to keep state-sponsored sports gambling out of North Carolina - Featuring Les Bernal, Executive Director of the national advocacy group, Stop Predatory Gambling.
How can a higher education scandal last for years? Money, power, and politics.
As a student reporter and editor at the Daily Tar Heel, Andy Thomason was at ground zero for the UNC-Chapel Hill “paper classes” athletics scandal that broke in 2010. He helped direct coverage at the independent student paper during the rest of his college career and followed it for the Chronicle of Higher Education after landing a reporting job there in 2014.
Personal responsibility phonies: Conservative pols’ griping about baseball team’s dismissal is sadly emblematic
No modern politician ever got in trouble with their constituents by complaining about the way a hometown sports team was treated by officials. Especially in recent decades, griping about unpopular official rulings has become the default position for public figures looking to curry favor with voters.
U.S. Senate panel grapples with fast-approaching state laws on rights of student athletes
WASHINGTON — There was little disagreement among senators Wednesday over whether a national law is needed to standardize what soon will be a patchwork of conflicting state statutes allowing some student athletes to earn money from their personal brands. But the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing shed little light on what a […]
In Wall Street Journal op-ed, UNC prof says big-time sports are undermining academic freedom
The following is from a press release distributed this morning by the North Carolina Conference of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP): UNC Professor’s Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Tells “How Sports Ate Academic Freedom” Years after the University of North Carolina’s academic-athletics scandal, the state’s flagship university continues to let big sports interfere with […]