Dome Corporation CEO Shuichi Yasuda says that the country's universities are mostly conservative and reluctant to tackle new initiatives. On the other hand, the University of Tsukuba is trying to be a trailblazer in reforming Japanese collegiate sports. The national university announced on Thursday that it ...
Discussions over the introduction of a "Japanese version of the NCAA" to oversee this country's collegiate sports have prompted positive and negative reactions since they began last year. Sports management expert and university professor Itaru Kobayashi is one of the scholars who supports the project ...
Japan is currently working to reform college sports and establish its own version of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), creating athletic departments at universities to help it function more efficiently. When that's accomplished, the hope is that it will benefit universities as a whole, ...
In the past year or so, the Japan Sports Agency, an external bureau of the education ministry, has discussed the potential establishment of "a Japanese edition of the NCAA" as part of its scheme to make college sports in this country more business-like. That does ...
Baylor University demoted school president Ken Starr and ousted football coach Art Briles on Thursday, issuing a scathing report over the university’s handling of sexual assault complaints against football players. The board of regents at the largest Baptist university in the United States said in ...
Stagehand Kery Eller doesn't own any Bruce Springsteen albums, but he would smash them if he did. Eller says he expected to earn at least $3,000 working the sold-out Springsteen concert and other high-profile shows around the state before artists canceled the events in protest ...
Shaka Smart brings his version of "havoc" to China in his coaching debut with Texas against Washington in the first regular-season college basketball game played in that country. They will meet Saturday in Shanghai — Friday night back in the United States — more than ...
A former Weber State football player who says his scholarship was not renewed following the 2012 season has filed a federal lawsuit against the NCAA alleging it violates antitrust laws by forcing players to sit out a year after transferring schools. The lawsuit filed Thursday ...
The Miami players kept chucking the ball back and forth, trying to stay upright, to somehow keep the game going just long enough to make something magical happen. And then it did. Call it a Miami miracle. Even if it's one that's going to be vigorously ...
Aaron Green made it sound so simple. He was just following the ball as he had been told. He ended up in perfect position, too, catching a tipped pass in the back of the end zone with 23 seconds left to give the No. 3 ...
Cardale Jones was yucking it up on the sideline, mimicking Braxton Miller's spin move and celebrating an Ohio State touchdown. Jones, the quarterback who seemingly came out of nowhere last December to lead the Buckeyes to the national title, is the man for Ohio State ...
Derrick Henry ran for 147 yards and three touchdowns and No. 3 Alabama beat No. 20 Wisconsin 35-17 on Saturday night in the opener for both teams. Jake Coker got the starting nod at quarterback for the Crimson Tide, and was 15-of-21 passing for 213 ...
