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The NCAA says the graduation success rate for Football Bowl Subdivision players who entered college in 2003 rose to 69 percent, or a three percent raise over last year's report.

TCU's win over Oregon State was a big step toward a possible national title run.

Respect? Check. Now the elite-underdog Horned Frogs just have to go 12-0 again.

A newly released NCAA report shows that just 14 of the 120 Football Bowl Subdivision schools made money from campus athletics in the 2009 fiscal year, down from 25 the year before.

The NCAA has been throwing the flag at school after school after school lately, but the violations just keep on comin'. What to do? Here's the obvious solution: Give up on amateurism.

Why is Gary Patterson so negative? He doesn't want TCU to believe the hype.

Ever so slightly, graduation rates for men's Division I basketball, baseball and football players are continuing to rise.

Rutgers has hired Louisville senior associate athletic director Julie Hermann as its new athletic director.

Hawaii's athletic department is scrapping a plan to drop the word "Rainbow" from its men's teams' nicknames.

Wagering among male athletes is down nearly 10 percent from 2008, though concerns remain over the increased use of social media and technology for betting, according to the latest NCAA report on gambling.

The NCAA Division I Board of Directors has suspended rule changes passed in January that would have allowed unlimited electronic communication -- including text messaging -- from college coaches to football recruits.

Did you notice what happened to those who dared to criticize or voice their discomfort with Jason Collins' announcement? They're the ones who found themselves isolated, under attack and pressured to remain silent.

What happens over the next months and years will say more about American society and its boundaries of acceptance than it ever could about Jason Collins or Kirk Walker or Kevin McClatchy or Martina Navratilova.

Jason Collins' announcement could have a profound impact on college sports, too.

Is pain a means to grace? To clarity? Is it an "instrument for perfecting" ourselves? Where's the line between the instructive and the destructive? What are sports meant to teach?

Outgoing North Carolina chancellor Holden Thorp said Friday presidents are often ill-equipped to run big-time sports programs and should give more control to their athletic directors.