With steroids easy to buy, testing weak and punishments inconsistent, college football players are packing on significant weight — 30 pounds or more in a single year, sometimes — without drawing much attention from their schools or the NCAA in a sport that earns tens of billions of dollars for teams.Rules vary so widely that, on any given game day, a team with a strict no-steroid policy can face a...
Cleared Minnesota college coach fights suspension
Labels: SportsA Minnesota college football coach who was cleared of child porn charges is fighting a suspension, his union said Thursday, although neither it nor the university would say what prompted the punishment or shed light on his prospects for reinstatement.Coach Todd Hoffner received a written notice from Minnesota State University, Mankato late Tuesday afternoon about a 20-day unpaid suspension that begins...
College basketball's best _ so far
Labels: SportsKentucky's Anthony Davis was pretty much everyone's choice as the national player of the year last season.This season, at least as it nears the midpoint, the player of the year honor appears to be up for grabs.Though there are a few players who might be considered front-runners, there are roughly two dozen, maybe more, who could be considered the best in the country.Here's a few, sort of a sampler...
NCAA considering proposals to change recruiting
Labels: SportsThe NCAA released a package of proposals Friday that would change the recruiting calendar, lift restrictions on how and how often coaches can contact recruits, and allow athletes to accept more money for participating in non-scholastic events.All the proposals are expected to be voted on Jan. 19 at the NCAA's annual convention near Dallas. If approved, they could take effect Aug. 1.This is the first...
NCAA suspends Texas Longhorns guard Myck Kabongo of Toronto 23 games
Labels: SportsThe NCAA has suspended Texas basketball player Myck Kabongo of Toronto for 23 games for accepting impermissible benefits and providing false statements during an investigation into the infractions.The Division I committee on student-athlete reinstatement announced the suspension Friday.Kabongo also must repay $475 to a charity of his choice. The suspension includes the 10 games he has already missed.The...
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Dakar mosque lit up for Christmas in Senegal
Labels: WorldAfter prayers at the mosque, Ibrahim Lo is off to do some last-minute Christmas shopping. Soon he is eyeing the rows of dolls wrapped in plastic bags on a wooden table as he searches for gifts for his four children.A bouquet of inflatable Santa toys tied to a nearby tree bobs in the air at this outdoor market in the seaside capital as he makes his picks.It looks a lot like Christmas in Senegal, where...
4 foreign sailors kidnapped off Nigeria coast
Labels: WorldGunmen attacked a supply tug boat off the coast of Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta, kidnapping foreign sailors, including Italians, in the latest attack in the West African region that is increasingly dangerous for shippers and oil companies, officials said Monday.
The attack happened 40 nautical miles off the coast of Bayelsa state in the Niger Delta on Sunday night, as the gunmen stormed the moving...
Zimbabweans brace for bleak holidays
Labels: World Zimbabweans are facing bleak holidays this year amid rising poverty, food and cash shortages and political uncertainty, with some describing it as the worst since the formation of the coalition government in the southern African nation.President Robert Mugabe, in a four-year-old coalition with former opposition leader Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, announced an extra public holiday Monday...
South Africa: Mandela in hospital over Christmas
Labels: World South Africa's presidency says former leader Nelson Mandela will spend Christmas Day in hospital.The presidency says in a statement that Mandela's doctors confirmed the news on Monday. The anti-apartheid figure was admitted Dec. 8 to a hospital in Pretoria, the South African capital. He was diagnosed with a lung infection and had a procedure to remove gallstones; officials have said Mandela...
South Africa: World watches Mandela's struggle
Labels: WorldA chipped street mural in South Africa's Soweto township depicts stations in the life of Nelson Mandela, each matched by a portrait of the global icon as he advanced from robust youth to old age. Now this infirm giant of history faces a struggle with mortality, its duration unknown but its outcome certain.There may be no living figure so revered around the world as a symbol of sacrifice and reconciliation,...
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