The NCAA announced on Wednesday that its men’s and women’s basketball tournaments will be held without fans in response to the coronavirus pandemic, limiting attendance to “essential staff and limited family.”

The NCAA will permit spring-sport Division I athletes who had their seasons shortened by the coronavirus outbreak to have an additional year of eligibility

The organization said Thursday it is canceling the tournaments due to the “evolving COVID-19 public health threat.”

The buzzer-beaters, upsets and all the other shining moments of this year’s NCAA tournaments will be played in mostly empty arenas. Trying to avoid spreading the new coronavirus that has become a global pandemic, the NCAA decided the men’s and women’s tournament games will be off-limits to the general public. NCAA President Mark Emmert said Wednesday that he made...

Colleges and universities can profit off the name, image, or likeness (NIL) of a student-athlete and some say it’s not fair that students can’t do the same. For years, the NCAA has been debating whether to allow student-athletes to receive paid endorsements. Now it’s a question facing Connecticut lawmakers. “The only reason that the NCAA is considering taking action...

What normally would be thought an impossibility isn’t so far-fetched as the United States and the rest of the world attempt to contain the spread of the new coronavirus.

The NCAA is stepping up its lobbying efforts as Congress considers allowing endorsement money for college athletes

The NCAA will now permit elite athletes to be paid for training expenses by the U.S. Olympic Committee and other national governing bodies.

The Division I Council adopted the legislation Wednesday at the NCAA convention and it is effective immediately.

UConn is back in a familiar spot — No. 1 in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll. The Huskies moved up to the top position in the poll Monday after previous No. 1 Stanford lost at Texas on Sunday. UConn has spent more time at No. 1 than any other team in the history of the sport. This is the…

Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy released the third of three reports on Monday on problems he says exist in college sports. Murphy’s reports have examined how much money big time division one sports generate for schools, and how many student-athletes don’t get a proper education. His latest report examined poor medical care for many of the athletes, noting how little...

A woman was charged with attempted homicide in a Pittsburgh stabbing that critically injured former Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor, who is also facing a charge, police said. Pryor was taken to the hospital just after 4:30 a.m. Saturday following a dispute with “mutual combatants” in an apartment on the city’s North Side, police said. Allegheny County prosecutors and police...

UConn says senior forward Batouly Camara will have knee surgery Monday and will miss the start of the season for the fifth-ranked Huskies.

Student-athletes, including at Trinity College, are applauding a major move that could allow them to cash in on endorsement deals.

The United States’ largest governing body for college athletics took the first step Tuesday toward allowing amateur athletes to cash in on their fame, voting unanimously to permit them to “benefit from the use of their name, image and likeness.” The NCAA and its member schools now must figure out how to allow athletes to profit while still maintaining rules...

Harold Sparrow, President and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Hartford, shared the details of the event on October 17.

A state senator says it’s time to let college athletes make money off their abilities.

Twenty people, including members of the Colombo crime family, have been charged with a litany of crimes, including racketeering, extortion and loansharking, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.

Two-time NCAA champion Abrahm DeVine is accusing his former team at Stanford of homophobia and claiming that he was kicked off the team because he is gay, NBC News reported. “Plain and simple: There are surface-level reasons I was kicked off the Stanford swim team, but I can tell you with certainty that it comes down to the fact that...

Defying the NCAA, California opened the way Monday for college athletes to hire agents and make money from endorsement deals with sneaker companies, soft drink makers and other sponsors, just like the pros.

In defiance of the NCAA, the new California law will let college athletes hire agents and make money from endorsements.