5/30/2011: When UO has its own sworn police patrolling off campus, they’ll likely be able to keep this sort of thing out of the papers by claiming FERPA prevents them from releasing the info. They already do this for on campus offenses. Note that the EPD cops who got this…
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5/27/2011: The Senate Intercollegiate Athletic Committee has posted a little data on the Senate website. This year *all* arena bond repayments come out of the legacy fund. They are predicting a nearly 4x increase in arena revenue over the next 4 years, from $3.7 million to $12.2, at which point…
5/25/2011: From Rob Moseley in the RG talking about the recent NCAA release of academic progress: Oregon’s four-year average of 941 was ninth among Pac-12 teams, and the 932 for 2009-10 was 11th among the 12 teams that will make up the conference this fall. Oregon State scored 959 as…
At Duke, that is. From Libby Sander in the Chronicle, 5/12/2011: Deborah Jakubs, vice provost for library affairs at Duke University, was at a dean’s retreat one Saturday in February when she fell into conversation with the university’s athletic director, Kevin White. The two agreed that they should find a…
5/8/2011: Greg Bolt has dual front page stories on the UO administration’s complicity in subsidizing UO athletics with state tax revenue and regular student tuition, in today’s Register Guard. The first compares the dismal support services for regular students with what the athletes get at what the NY Times calls…
5/4/2011: An Oregonian op-ed from former UO track star Steve Bence. If you’ve ever walked by that plaque on Hayward field and wondered what made a so-so champion runner into a genuine hero, you should read it all.
5/4/2011: Rachel Bachman of the Oregonian reports that on Wednesday the Pac-10 will announce a new TV deal that will boost UO’s take to $21 million. George Schroeder in the RG explains what it means for UO. President Lariviere and AD Rob Mullens are planning a joint news conference, at…
BOSTON — The suicide of the former Chicago Bears star Dave Duerson became more alarming Monday morning, when Boston University researchers announced that Duerson’s brain had developed the same trauma-induced disease recently found in more than 20 deceased players. The diagnosis adds a new and perhaps pivotal chapter to football’s…
4/25/2011: Rachel Bachman of the Oregonian, on the battle between the cheer athletic associations. (Read the many comments at the bottom of her story – pretty hilarious – and yet no so hilarious.)
4/23/2011: At a recent “visioning session” for the UO diversity office, a speaker from the local minority community made the very accurate point that UO’s outreach efforts were mostly focused on the athletic department – not on recruiting high academic performing minority students interested in college. The economist Charles Clotfelter,…
3/29/2011: My understanding is that UO is currently insured under the state pool. What will happen under the OUS and the new partnership plans? Private insurance could get very expensive: Still, the liability question looms—for the lawyers, anyway. Boston University researchers have found CTE in the brain of a college…
3/27/2011: Ralph Nader’s proposal is to ban the players from accepting scholarships. So the coach and AD can take even more? How un-american. These players have a much better idea – sue for the right to sell their skills to the highest bidder. Meanwhile, here in Oregon state senator Peter…
3/25/2011: The economist Charles Clotfelter, at Duke, has a new book: Big-Time Sports in American Universities. Apparently library JSTOR downloads dip in the two days after a team wins a BBall tournament. I’ll read and see if the other empirical findings are more significant. Here is a quote from the…
3/14/2011: Greg Bolt covers the athlete only parking lot story for the RG. Not bad. Someday our local paper of record may even get around to asking Provost Jim Bean why he is still insisting regular UO students must pay for the athlete only tutoring in the Jock Box. $2…
3/10/2011: Dave Frohnmayer, that is. Here’s his contract with Nike’s Howard Slusher, requiring UO to provide athlete only parking, in return for them taking the Jock Box land from us for $1. On top of this students pay $2 million a year to run it. Phil Knight’s deal with UO…