Chronicle of Higher Education 12.17.16 | Katherine Mangan University of Minnesota football players backed off on Saturday from their threat to boycott their coming Holiday Bowl game when it became clear the university wasn’t going to give in to their demands that it
Huffington Post 12.17.16 | Travis Waldron Eric W. Kaler said the school’s values were more important than the team’s scheduled Holiday Bowl appearance The University of Minnesota president and athletic director on Friday refused to yield to protesting football players, who walked out of
Think Progress 12.17.16 | Lindsay Gibbs If you don’t stand for something … Last year, football players at the University of Missouri recognized their collective power and went on strike, refusing to play until the university’s president, Tim Wolfe, resigned due to the mishandling
Washington Post 10.17.16 The University of Minnesota football team skipped practice for the second straight day Friday, a highly unusual case of college athletes unified in protest. The evening before, players huddled together on the field, most of them wearing their maroon jerseys
Washington Post 12.8.16 | Editorial Board “YOU LOOK at what Baylor [University] was able to do during his tenure, it fits perfectly with where we see our sports program going.” That initial statement from Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. announcing the university’s
Motto.com 11.5.16 | Sheila Burke / AP Prosecutors said they hoped it would send a message that people who commit these types of crimes on campus will be held accountable (NASHVILLE, Tenn.) — A former Vanderbilt football player who encouraged his teammates to
Columbia Spectator 11.7.16 | Daniel Radov, Austin Horn, Christopher Lopez, and Bradley Davison The University confirmed late Thursday that it is investigating the wrestling team after racially and sexually explicit messages exchanged among several senior wrestlers were made public. In the meantime, the
USA Today 8.18.16 | Ramon Vargas NEW ORLEANS -- Former NFL star Darren Sharper must serve a prison sentence of more than 18 years following his guilty pleas in a plot to drug women so as to make them easy to rape, a
