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<title><![CDATA[Academic progress high for bowl-bound teams]]></title>
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A study of the 70 schools selected for college football bowl games this season showed football teams maintained high recent academic progress, but the gap between African-American and white players persists.]]></description>
<pubDate>December 03, 2012 08:45:53 PST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The public's underwhelming reaction when athletes assault women]]></title>
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Hopefully, our anger over the child abuse allegations at Penn State will result in badly needed reforms. But we should productively channel our outrage about violence against women, too.]]></description>
<pubDate>November 30, 2011 07:53:01 PST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Study shows lack of diversity in FBS leadership positions]]></title>
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A new study released Tuesday showed that the racial and gender composition of people in key leadership positions at schools that compete in the NCAA's Football Bowl Subdivision remains decisively white and male.]]></description>
<pubDate>November 08, 2011 12:37:46 PST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Drake University's football team played a game in Tanzania this month, and now can bring an awareness of the beauty -- and problems -- of Africa back to the U.S.]]></title>
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College football in May is unusual enough. College football in May in Tanzania was a life-altering experience for the Drake University Bulldogs.]]></description>
<pubDate>May 27, 2011 09:23:34 PDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lapchick: Hill's move from sideline to front line of education]]></title>
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The lessons that onetime BCS coach Fitz Hill learned from sports, from the military, in school and in life have since been put to use building entirely different and more successful programs at Arkansas Baptist College.]]></description>
<pubDate>May 06, 2011 03:47:21 PDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[For the first time in major-college football history, two teams featuring African-American head coaches and athletic directors play each other when Virginia meets Eastern Michigan.]]></title>
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It's a non-conference game between teams that aren't in the national title picture, but history will be made when Mike London's Cavaliers play host to Ron English's Eagles on Saturday.]]></description>
<pubDate>October 22, 2010 08:26:22 PDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ISU gets good grade, KSU bad in minority hiring study]]></title>
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The Black Coaches and Administrators released a study Wednesday that examined the practices of schools that hired new football coaches last season.  ...]]></description>
<pubDate>November 18, 2009 10:02:08 PST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Institute study finds lack of diversity at key positions at FBS schools]]></title>
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A new study finds a lack of diversity in the key leadership positions at Football Bowl Subdivision schools and conferences.]]></description>
<pubDate>November 17, 2009 10:11:55 PST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The late NCAA executive director Myles Brand championed the ideals of intercollegiate athletics.]]></title>
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From academics to Title IX to civil rights, the late Myles Brand did his best to keep intercollegiate athletics on the right path.]]></description>
<pubDate>September 17, 2009 08:56:46 PDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Eddie Robinson Rule' to boost minority hiring could come to fruition in Oregon]]></title>
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In December, Richard Lapchick issued a call to action to address the appalling lack of opportunity for minority coaches in college sports. The state of Oregon apparently heard that call.]]></description>
<pubDate>May 22, 2009 06:25:23 PDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Data on graduation rates and Black coaches calls for drastic action]]></title>
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The number of African-American head coaches in college football is shrinking, while the gap in graduation rates is widening. It's time for drastic action, writes Richard Lapchick.]]></description>
<pubDate>December 08, 2008 10:36:28 PST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lapchick: Robinson a great coach, great American]]></title>
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He was a mentor, role model, father and counselor to his student-athletes, on and off the field. Today, grown men across this country are calling each other remembering this man who helped change lives, writes Richard Lapchick.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 04, 2007 07:17:10 PDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lapchick: Sad day in South Bend]]></title>
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If you believe in equal opportunity in sport, Tuesday might have been the saddest day in the history of American college football.]]></description>
<pubDate>November 30, 2004 16:56:11 PST</pubDate>
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