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Police in northern California have no motive for a deadly shooting spree Monday on the campus of a small Christian university, where seven people were killed and at least three more wounded. In other headlines, voters in two states and the District of Columbia cast their ballots today for the presidential primary; the United States […]

There’s a lot of money to be made off March Madness. At $122 billion, the amount of spending the NCAA’s annual basketball tournament generates is equal to Iceland’s GDP. That total includes $614 million in TV advertising, $300 million in NCAA merchandise, and $185 million in corporate sponsorship. So why aren’t the athletes paid? Joe […]

March Madness is turning out to be not that mad. Not too many bracket busting upsets this year. In fact, all but two of the Sweet 16 teams are from power conferences. The NCAA championship has become a kind of “who’s who” in big basketball schools. Ibrahim Abdul-Matin is The Takeaway’s sports contributor.

Be it from ticket sales,  memorabilia, television rights, or donors, college sports generate over $6 billion in annual revenue. Yet while coaches are receiving larger and larger contracts – the average college football coach’s salary in 2010 was $1.36 million – the money doesn’t trickle down to the players. The discrepancy has led many to call […]