Dartmouth College’s Robert L. Blackman Head Football Coach Buddy Teevens today announced the hiring of Cortez Hankton to his coaching staff. Hankton, who played in the NFL for six years and most recently the United Football League (UFL), will coach the… more »

Low APR triggers penalty... remedies set, Harvey says The opening of football practice is more than a month away, but it's already certain that Hampton University's postseason drought will extend to six seasons. The Pirates learned Wednesday that the… more »

Appalachian State's athletic department is still committed to pursuing membership into a Football Bowl Subdivision despite reports that ASU has been offered membership into a Football Championship Subdivision conference, an athletic department spokesman… more »

Elon University has no choice but to assess what conference should be its home. If the Southern Conference ground shakes, there needs to be an escape plan. The Colonial Athletic Association needs to replenish its roster of schools. So that’s why m… more »

Alvin Hollins was doing some of the personal things he hadn’t been able to do much of during the 30 years that he was sports information director at Florida A&M University. Most of all he was able to take a real vacation and visit his parents. Th… more »

Athletic Directors from Stony Brook, Liberty, North Dakota State and Montana State are among those honored. The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) announced the 29 winners of the Under Armour AD of the Year Award (ADOY)… more »

Nobody in the Arena Football League's 25-year history had done what Spokane Shock and former Brown football quarterback Kyle Rowley '01 did Saturday night. His 12 touchdown passes were an Arena Football League record. The Shock, faced with missing th… more »

When I heard the familiar “ding” of my computer alerting me that an e-mail had found its way into my inbox, I didn’t think much of it. After all, I get so much junk mail and phishing attempts (oftentimes in languages I can’t even read) that the n… more »

Future expansion likely, but only if right partner is found It has been one teleconference, meeting and press conference after another for Patriot League president Carolyn Schlie Femovich the last couple of years. It is beginning to feel like her… more »

Bethune-Cookman Athletics has scored yet another pair of victories, academically, as the Wildcats have earned recognition both from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and from the Football Championship Subdivision Athletics Directors As… more »

Some of the decision-makers in college football today are celebrating this new four-team format to determine an NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision national champion beginning in 2014. They’re calling it a “playoff.” It’s enough to remind yo… more »

For a change, Jackson State received some good APR news on Wednesday, but the news wasn't so good for several other Southwestern Athletic Conference members when the NCAA released the latest batch of academic scores. The JSU football program, which h… more »

Texas Southern is one of three college football programs nationwide to receive a one-year postseason ban for low APR scores (Hampton and North Carolina A&T did as well). Texas Southern University will spend a second consecutive year banned from p… more »

The Football Championship Subdivision Athletics Directors Association (FCS ADA) has announced the recipients of the Academic Progress Rate (APR) Award. The APR Award recognizes one institution at each of the 14 FCS conferences that has the highest APR… more »

The Colonial Athletic Association Council of Presidents has voted that Georgia State University and Old Dominion University are ineligible in 2012-13 for CAA team championships in which the conference receives an automatic bid to the NCAA Championship.… more »