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On June 6, American pole vaulter Chris Nilsen chatted with Digital Journal about his NCAA championship win, competing with Mondo Duplantis, as well as his future plans.
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Birmingham -
Teen pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis has a major reason to celebrate. He won the 2019 NCAA championship in the men's pole vault.
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Nearly two years after Baylor's sexual-assault scandal surfaced, the NCAA has finally completed its investigation and formally notified the Big 12 school of looming allegations, and they may be very serious.
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South Dakota pole vaulter and NCAA champion Chris Nilsen has the fourth best performance this year (5.86 meters) in the men's outdoor pole vault. Nilsen chatted with Digital Journal about his career in the sport.
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By AFP
Atlanta -
US President Donald Trump received a mixed reception from football fans in America's conservative south on Monday, a partial rebuke on his political home turf.
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The NCAA Selection Show is the inauguration of the annual March Madness of college basketball. However, this year the list of teams who made it to the Big Dance was leaked.
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Indianapolis -
ESPN's Keith Olbermann has requested that the National College Athletic Association and the National Football League boycott Indiana until a controversial new law that allows businesses to discriminate against same-sex couples is repealed.
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There are 16 teams still alive in the NCAA Tournament. But Wisconsin and Kentucky have one big advantage over the rest: Both teams are really tall, even by basketball standards.
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After top-seeded Villanova Wildcats crashed out of the NCAA tournament with a 71-68 loss to 8-seed N.C. State, Wildcats fans were left dejected but a girl, member of the Villanova band, came to epitomize the devastation of the loss.
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The NCAA academic scandal is continuing to gain ground in the news as a class-action lawsuit is filed in North Carolina. According to the plaintiffs, UNC and the NCAA failed to provide them with the education it promised. Want to fix the NCAA? Here's how.
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Former UNC athlete Michael McAdoo is suing the university for allegedly depriving him of a quality education, which it promised when he signed. This first big lawsuit coming out of the UNC scandal promises to raise some big questions for higher education.
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Second-ranked Florida State remained unbeaten and situated on the inside of the College Football Playoff with a double-digit come-from-behind victory Thursday against the Louisville Cardinals.
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The recent investigations of Todd Gurley and Jameis Winston have the potential to shake up the college football playoff picture. Both stars are being investigated for allegedly taking money for their autographs, but this violation will be hard to prove.
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Forget the image of college campuses as enclaves of instruction and research. Figures show rapidly increasing spending on athletic programs, along with swelling the ranks of administrators and their salaries.
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The same night the defending NCAA champions Louisville lost to Kentucky we caught a glimpse of the strong playoffs to come in the NBA western conference.
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The 2014 NCAA post-season "March Madness" is upon us, and this year's nearly three-week tournament will likely be the biggest yet in terms of advertising revenue.
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March Madness lived up to its name Sunday when Stanford (10) defeated Kansas (2) in a nail-biter that surely broke millions of NCAA basketball brackets across the world.
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By Reuters
President Barack Obama, a big basketball fan, tweeted his congratulations to the University of Dayton for its "huge upset win" over Syracuse University in the second round of the NCAA men's basketball college championship.
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By Reuters
U.S. President Barack Obama thinks Michigan State will win the NCAA men's basketball college championship. The problem?
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When entrepreneur Max Ivany founded the Texas D1 Ambassadors basketball team in March 2001, he had no idea that a little over a decade later it would become the D1 Nation organization with hundreds of Ambassador teams in about every corner of America.
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Many are calling the Lousiville Cardinals' guard, Kevin Ware a hero. Considering what Ware has been through the past few days, it is hard not to consider him anything but that.
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After igniting a firestorm on Twitter, a CBS sports analyst apologized Thursday night for saying he was bringing the “white man’s perspective” to the network’s NCAA pregame show coverage.
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Oklahoma State guard Markel Brown scored a last-minute lay-up to give his NCAA Big 12 team the overtime win against the Baylor Bears. The game-winner came moments after Oklahoma's Michael Cobbins blocked the Baylor dunk attempt.
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Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o admits he lied on national TV claiming his girlfriend had died. Te'o now says his 'girlfriend' was an online friend he had never met that he later learned was not dead. Te'o claims he's the victim of an internet scam.
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State College -
"Doomed," "foolhardy," "disgusting" — are just a few of the words being used to describe Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett's lawsuit asking the federal court to toss out NCAA penalties handed to Penn State for its role in protecting a pedophile.
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The 5-10 guard playing for Grinnell College in Iowa broke the NCAA record for points scored in a single college basketball game. Jack Taylor racked up an incredible 138 points in 36 minutes of action. His team beat Faith Baptist Bible 179-104.
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The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has just announced major penalties against Penn State University's football program and institution. The school has been hit with a $60 million fine.
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Tucson -
Arizona’s Johnny Field accomplished what few baseball players ever do in a game on Sunday. Let alone in a NCAA Regional Championship, like he did.
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As college basketball gets ready to crown its champion Monday night, it seems that a team that got beat early on is the favorite team, according to recent Harris Poll.
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Truth be told, basketball lovers and those involved in pools do this. Even if the boss does not like it, they will do it anyway.
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The Virginia Cavaliers (orange and blue home uniforms) play against the Penn State Nittany Lions (all-white away uniforms) in 2012 in Scott Stadium Yanping Nora Soong (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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