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August 17, 2012

Murphy Opts To Stay At Eastern Michigan

Detroit Free Presshttp://www.freep.com/article/20120817/SPORTS08/308170156/Rob-Murphy-to-stay-as-Eastern-Michigan-basketball-coach Rob Murphy will remain the men's basketball coach at Eastern Michigan.After strongly considering leaving for a scouting...

August 16, 2012

Mississippi State Announces $75M Athletic Initiative

The Dispatch, Matthew Stevenshttp://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=18285STARKVILLE -- All the way up to the day of the announcement, Mississippi State University officials had been reticent on the subject of its Davis Wade Stadium renovation ...

August 16, 2012

How The State of Alabama Taking Over Birmingham’s City Schools Affects Athletics

The Birmingham News, Jeff Sentellhttp://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2012/08/ed_richardson_says_state_takeo.htmlOne of the summer’s looming athletics questions was a byproduct of the Alabama Board of Education taking over Birmingham’s...

August 16, 2012

A.D. Quits After 2 Weeks On The Job

AnnArbor.com, Danielle Arndthttp://highschoolsports.mlive.com/news/article/8075430683020668487/new-dexter-schools-athletic-director-quits-after-2-weeks-to-take-another-job/Dexter High School will have an interim athletic director for the upcomin...

August 16, 2012

Coaches Support Race Consideration In College Admission

SportingNewshttp://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-basketball/story/2012-08-16/tom-izzo-ben-howland-other-coaches-support-race-based-college-admission-policies Some big name college basketball coaches are throwing their support behind the University of Tex...

August 16, 2012

UNC Coach Williams Comments On Academic Scandal

Fayetteville Observerhttp://www.fayobserver.com/articles/2012/08/16/1197466?sac=fo.sports North Carolina basketball coach Roy Williams played in the Wyndham Championship golf pro-am Wednesday in Greensboro and later addressed questions about the acad...

August 15, 2012

Clark County (Nev.) To Offer Flag Football As Girls Varsity Sport

Las Vegas Review-Journal http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/athletic-opportunity-girls-flag-football-goes-varsity-in-county-166228786.htmlHow appropriate that amid a landmark Olympic Games for American women, the Clark County School District took a big step...

August 15, 2012

A.D. Andy Geiger Transforming UW-Milwaukee After Just 3 Months

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Michael Hunthttp://www.jsonline.com/sports/panthers/uwm-headed-in-right-direction-7i6g7oj-166209176.htmlA little more than three months into the job of fixing an athletic department, Andy Geiger is seeing more clearly what...