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In 1969, President Nixon was the decider of the national championship.

In 1966, Notre Dame head coach Ara Parseghian made a decision that would rattle the constituency of the sport.

In the first of a series examining the NCAA's messy history, we look back at Army and Notre Dame's punchless 1946 showdown.

The first time I spoke to the current head coach of the Akron Zips, he told me, "I'm never coaching Division I basketball again." This was in 2000, and Keith Dambrot was coaching a local high school team after years of not being able to find a basket...

Why do we play arcade games for hundreds of hours?

I have never been to Lubbock, and therefore I have never visited Chrome, the clothing store owned by Texas Tech alum Stephen Spiegelberg, who became the source of mockery this week when a rather fervid marketing memo he sent to a deputy athletic dire...

Last Saturday, Nick Saban offered a scholarship to an eighth-grader. Saban is the best coach in college football because he is also its most zealous authoritarian, and yet, in this case, what Saban did is not quite as Machiavellian as it sounds. For ...

Jim Crutchfield's West Liberty University is the fastest offense in college basketball — and they win. So why isn't anyone else trying to catch up?

1. I should declare up front that I am firmly entrenched in the strata of college football fanatics who find National Signing Day to be a weird and discomfiting phenomenon, and that I do not frequent any message boards, and that I believe that the ha...

On the man who created Parker and the quest for the perfect character.

After yet another Alabama national championship, how much longer can this go on?

1. Jadeveon Clowney Until the year 2013, if you had asked me to cite off the top of my head the greatest defensive play in college football's recent annals, I might have noted this, or made a blatantly homerish reference to this. But that era has en...

The football team at Division III's Mount Union is one of the most dominant collegiate programs in history. How? A man named Larry Kehres.

At long last, Johnny Football speaks. And it won't be the last time.

How the greatest athlete of our time forever changed the life of a kid named Dudek.

Nick Saban's Alabama Crimson Tide are headed back to the national championship game. What else is new?