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ViacomCBS delivered a narrower-than-expected profit drop despite the cancellation of the the NCAA “March Madness” men’s basketball championship that had been slated to air on CBS.

Bob Bowlsby and the unnamed commissioners who supported the idea of fall sports being played while schools offered online-only classes due to the novel coronavirus pandemic were shot down by NCAA president Mark Emmert on Friday night. “College...

The 1 and only … Coach to lead a New York City team to an NCAA men’s basketball title: Nat Holman The Time: March 28, 1950 The Background: Back then, the NCAA Tournament included only eight teams and an East and a West region. CCNY, a team made...

The NCAA agreed last month to move forward with a plan for student-athletes to earn money for endorsements and a host of other activities. According to two studies, a handful of college athletes could make more than $100,000 from social media based...

Zion Williamson may have to answer to the allegations that his parents requested and accepted impermissible benefits while he was at Duke. On Tuesday, a Florida judge denied his request for a stay of discovery into whether he violated NCAA rules when...

Due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, Rick Pitino has yet to see his new players work out at Iona College. He’s fine with his return to college coaching being pushed back as well. “Suggestion to the NCAA, push the start of the season back to...

LAS VEGAS — It’s a date that will live in infamy for those of us who plan our days and nights by the sports calendar. It was March 11 when the NBA suspended its season and the dominoes began to fall. The next day, the NCAA Tournament — the...

College athletes now have the freedom to to honor social justice causes they support. The NCAA announced Thursday the Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved rules that allow athletes across all sports to wear patches on their uniforms in an effort to...

After months of inaction, punting decisions down the calendar, the NCAA finally began to take action on Wednesday, and hours after doing so, Division III fall championships were canceled across the board. College sports’ governing body gave an end...

Benjamin Bifalco graduated from Wagner College on Staten Island last year with a major in finance and minors in government and political science. But he did his most intense research for a senior project at which he failed miserably: attempting to...

Don’t mistake the Big Ten and Pac-12 cancelling all fall sports for the end of college football in 2020. At least not yet. If you need more proof that the sport is geographical and controlled by conferences rather than the overarching NCAA,...

The future is uncertain. The state of the pandemic may not be any better come March. Still, NCAA senior vice president of basketball Dan Gavitt has declared that COVID-19 will not be responsible for canceling another NCAA Tournament. “We are going...

The NCAA called off fall championship events — a move Thursday that does not affect major college football — because not enough schools will be competing in sports such as men’s and women’s soccer and women’s volleyball during the first...

The NCAA has officially canceled fall championships -- a decision that could potentially push fall sports to the spring.

The NCAA has canceled fall championships. Two of its major college football conferences, the Pac-12 and Big Ten, have canceled all fall sports. And its chief medical officer is continuing to say that games should not be played at this time as the...

Every week since the novel coronavirus pandemic hit in March, canceling most of the Big East Tournament and the entire NCAA Tournament, the league’s athletic directors have met virtually. And as the fall nears, and the college basketball season...

Legendary former Georgetown basketball coach John Thompson died overnight at age 78, according to multiple reports. The first Black coach to lead his team to the NCAA men’s basketball championship, Thompson coached Georgetown from 1972-99,...

John Thompson Jr., the first Black basketball head coach to win the NCAA National Championship, died at his Arlington, Virginia home Sunday night, a family source has confirmed to CNN. He was 78.

Trevor Lawrence is delivering a playbook for action once again. The star Clemson quarterback, who was a leading voice behind college football players’ push to play through the pandemic this season, led another social media wave Sunday that offered...

March Madness will look a lot different next year if the ACC gets its way. The men’s basketball coaches in the ACC voted to propose to that all Div. I teams make the NCAA tournament in 2021 in response to the coronavirus pandemic that led to the...