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PC and URI’s Return to Relevancy

As another successful NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament comes to a close, fans have been treated with last-second shots, final glimpses of NBA-bound stars, and Cinderella stories like the University of South Carolina and their run to the Final Four as a seven
March 30, 2017

College Athletics: Business or Experience

The National Collegiate Athletics Association’s existence, according to its website, is predicated on “integrating intercollegiate athletics into higher education so that the educational experience of the student-athlete is paramount.” Of course, this mission can manifest itself in many ways, the most common
February 2, 2017

Kicking and screaming, but with a purpose

The Women’s Soccer team wrapped up the 2016 season with a 15-4 overall record and a 7-2 record in Centennial Conference play. Although the Garnet fell short in the NCAA tournament, their season as a whole wasn’t short of successes.    
November 17, 2016

Women’s soccer has hot start to season

As the final seconds ticked off the clock in last Saturday’s 2-0 win versus Dickinson, the Swarthmore women’s soccer team accomplished something rather impressive. In their most recent matchups with every team in the Centennial Conference, Swarthmore has been on the winning side.
October 1, 2015

NCAA brings changes to college sports

Every year, the NCAA convenes to discuss the current state of college athletics and to propose and vote on new policies and rules. This past January, the NCAA gathered in Washington DC eager to bring about even bigger changes in college
September 24, 2015

March Madness heats up, can Kentucky be beat?

The NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament, or “March Madness,” is a single-elimination tournament that has become hugely popular in large part due to annual upsets and underdog runs that dominate the early weekends of the bracket. Last year, a seventh seed
April 2, 2015

Athlete of the month: Liam Fitzstevens

This past Sunday, Liam Fitzstevens ’17 of the men’s swim team returned home from nationals, where he competed in three events three days in a row and returned home with two school records. Fitzstevens holds an incredible eight school records total after
March 26, 2015

NCAA sends bad message restoring Paterno wins

On Friday, January 16, the National Collegiate Athletic Association uncharacteristically reversed a previous punishment they had put in place. What made this course of action even more unusual was that this original decision had, at the time of its conception in 2012,
January 22, 2015

Inside a culture of flexibility for student-athletes

Every several weeks, it seems, another student-athlete scandal rocks a prestigious university. Most recently, five Notre Dame football players have been suspended from the team amid cheating allegations. This news broke just after the furor subsided from former University of North Carolina-Chapel
September 4, 2014

Victory at last

Last week, the players of the Northwestern University football team were granted permission by the regional director of the National Labor Relations Board to unionize after they were recognized as employees of the university. Northwestern and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
April 3, 2014
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