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Both the North Carolina Tar Heels and the Virginia Cavaliers, who squared off in the ACC Championship on Saturday, were awarded No. 1 seeds in the NCAA tournament.

Gaming Association Boasts More NCAA Brackets Than Votes For Next President

5:34pm March 14, 2016

by Laura Wagner

The American Gaming Association estimates Americans will complete upwards of 70 million NCAA tournament brackets this year — potentially more than votes cast for any 2016 presidential candidate.

Members of the University of Missouri Tigers football team return to practice Nov. 10 at Memorial Stadium in Columbia, Mo.

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Commentary: Mizzou Football And The Power Of The Players

9:53am November 18, 2015

by Frank Deford

Frank Deford wonders: Once the games are over, are the football players really accepted, or are they just hired hands?

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Court Rules Against Paying College Athletes

5:11pm September 30, 2015

by Laura Wagner

A federal appeals court in California upheld a lower court's decision that profiting from athletes' likenesses violated antitrust laws, but vacated a plan that would pay them up to $5,000 per year.

Head coach Larry Brown of the Southern Methodist Mustangs has been suspended for nine games for his role in violating NCAA rules.

SMU Men's Basketball Team Banned From Postseason Over NCAA Violations

7:31pm September 29, 2015

by Laura Wagner

Head coach Larry Brown has been suspended for nine games. The Mustangs' men's golf team was also punished for violating NCAA recruiting protocol.

Northwestern football players are reflected in a helmet during drills at a practice. On Monday, the National Labor Relations Board dismissed a petition that players be allowed to form a union.

NLRB Denies Northwestern University Football Players' Bid To Unionize

3:43pm August 17, 2015

by Sam Sanders

Last year, a regional National Labor Relations Board director ruled that football players at the school could form the nation's first student-athlete union. That ruling was overturned Monday.

Federal Court Places A Stay On Order Compelling NCAA To Pay Athletes

3:01pm July 31, 2015

by Bill Chappell

The ruling comes nearly a year after a district court judge ruled that the NCAA violated antitrust laws and should let schools pay athletes $5,000.

Schuyler Bailar will swim on the men's team at Harvard this fall.

Transgender Swimmer Given Choice Of Harvard's Men's, Women's Teams

10:55am July 01, 2015

by Lucy Perkins

First accepted by the women's swim team, Schuyler Bailar decided to join the men's team this coming fall. He is believed to be the first openly transgender NCAA swimmer.

Academic Foul: Some Colleges Accused Of Helping Athletes Cheat

6:21pm June 13, 2015

by NPR Staff

In the wake of cheating scandals at Syracuse University and the University of North Carolina, new allegations have emerged of academic misconduct by basketball players at the University of Texas.

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Oklahoma's Buddy Hield (right) and Denzel Valentine of Michigan State played in Friday's East Regional Semifinal of the 2015 NCAA tournament in Syracuse. If you've got money riding on this year's NCAA tournament, you might want to hear about what happened

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The Cautionary Tale Of A Big-Time Bracket Bust

8:22pm March 30, 2015

by NPR Staff

In 2010, police arrested a New Jersey man running a football pool — with a payout totaling nearly $900,000. If you're the one holding money in your office's college basketball pool, take heed.

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President Obama's 2015 NCAA Tournament bracket.

Obama Picks Kentucky To Win NCAA Tournament, Mixes In Politics

12:05pm March 18, 2015

by Domenico Montanaro

President Obama predicts Kentucky will be crowned college basketball champion and cap off a perfect season. He also picks three top seeds and one No. 2 seed to make the Final Four.