College Hockey's Impact on Pro Game Grows The Bruins-Flames game from Wednesday night spoke volumes about the changing path from amateur to pro hockey. read more

Could G League's $125K Offer Woo Hoops Prospects? At college basketball’s ongoing corruption trial, it appeared that $100,000 was a typical going rate for those alleged to have been offered money by the game’s elite schools. read more

Coaches: Corruption in College Hoops Mostly at Top The seven Division 1 men’s college basketball coaches in Connecticut agree that while the NCAA must find solutions to the problems uncovered in the FBI’s investigation into corruption in the sport, their programs haven’t been — or won’t be — affected. read more

Document Reveals Assault Investigations at Arizona University of Arizona police investigated 16 student-athletes and athletic department employees for sexual assault or dating violence over a six-year span beginning in 2012, according to a document produced in court by the school’s attorney. The document is part of the discovery process in one of two federal Title IX lawsuits levied against the UA. School officials are accused of mishandling reports that former football player Orlando Bradford was abusing women. Tucson police arrested Bradford in September 2016 and charged him with more than a dozen domestic-violence-related offenses. He pleaded guilty to two felony counts of aggravated assault and is serving a five-year prison sentence. One of Bradford’s victims filed a lawsuit against the UA a year ago, saying the school knew about his violent behavior and failed to take appropriate action to protect other students. It cited a campus police report from April 2016, when another woman reported abuse by Bradford to campus police and an athletic department official. Bradford wasn’t charged with a crime in connection with the complaint. He soon moved into a house off campus with other members of the football team. Bradford was arrested five months later after two other women said he repeatedly beat and choked them while his roommates watched. In January, a second Bradford victim filed her own federal lawsuit. read more

How Hoops Trial Verdict Could Shape Future Cases In defending his client against charges of fraud, Merl Code Jr.'s attorney turned to murder to make his point. Code, a Greenville native and former Clemson basketball star, and two co-defendants face conviction in the federal college basketball pay-to-play trial, accused of conspiring to funnel $100,000 in Adidas money to the family of Brian "Tugs" Bowen to steer him to play for the University of Louisville. read more

Merged Athletic Departments Surprise Student-Athletes The consolidation of Long Island University's Brooklyn and Post athletic departments has rankled some student-athletes who said they were caught off-guard by the school's Oct. 3 announcement. "They dropped a bomb on us," said Liam Kunkel, a freshman basketball player from Glen Head. "Nobody saw this coming." The school's decision to combine the two campuses into one Division I program puts the future of its Division II athletes in limbo as they consider what they say are undesirable options. read more

Opinion: Rats Starting to Flee from College Hoops A shockwave went through college basketball this week, and despite the denials from some of the biggest names in the sport, it's worse than we thought it was. The corruption trial in Manhattan has rolled back the covers of deception within college basketball, revealing a widespread disease that includes everybody, from the coaches and schools themselves right down to the street peddlers and the shoe salesmen, all involved in one fashion or another in what is an ugly revelation. College basketball, at the highest levels of the game, is dirty. read more

Ex-Baseball Treasurer Held on $750K Bond The former treasurer of the Springboro Clearcreek Baseball Association was back in the Warren County Jail on Wednesday, officials said. read more