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Rutgers Introduces New Basketball Coach

AP | TOM CANAVAN | Posted 04.23.2013 | Sports

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — With his voice quivering at times, Eddie Jordan returned to Rutgers and took over as coach of the scandal-marred basketbal...

Rutgers Suspends Lacrosse Coach

AP | Posted 04.19.2013 | Sports

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- Rutgers University has suspended its head men's lacrosse coach as it investigates allegations of verbal abuse. The university ...

Rutgers To Pay Fired Coach $475,000

AP | ANGELA DELLI SANTI | Posted 04.18.2013 | Sports

TRENTON, N.J. — Rutgers University has reached a $475,000 settlement agreement with Mike Rice, agreeing to pay the fired men's basketball coach ...

Report: Rutges Close To Landing New Coach

AP | DAN GELSTON | Posted 04.14.2013 | Sports

-- A person familiar with the situation tells the Associated Press that Eddie Jordan is nearing an agreement with Rutgers to replace Mike Rice as coa...

Moody's Credit Warning To Rutgers

Reuters | Posted 04.12.2013 | Business

By Hilary Russ April 12 (Reuters) - The scandal over abusive behavior by the now-fired men's basketball coach at Rutgers University thr...

'I Would Have Smacked the Hell Out Of Him'

Posted 04.11.2013 | Sports

Mike Rice is lucky that none of the players he coached at Rutgers thought like Kobe Bryant. Bryant was asked on Wednesday how he would have reacted...

Coaches Behaving Very Badly

Leigh Steinberg | Posted 04.10.2013 | Sports
Leigh Steinberg

College athletics is supposed to be a learning and personal growth experience for young men. It is supposed to teach values like teamwork, self-discipline, honesty and courage.

Bullying Reaches Beyond Schoolhouse Walls

Randy Rosenberger | Posted 04.10.2013 | Parents
Randy Rosenberger

As former Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice showed the most repellent on-court demeanor since Bobby Knight, outside observers have voiced their annoyance about the rise of dictatorial coaches. However, the fact remains the coach-as-bully is learned behavior and it starts early.

How to Fix College Coaching

David Berri | Posted 04.08.2013 | Sports
David Berri

As long as schools place winning -- and the ticket sales winning generates -- above the welfare of the students, it seems unlikely we are going to see athletic directors and presidents alter their behavior.

John Celock

Christie Opponent Attacks 'Lack Of Leadership' After Rutgers Scandal

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 04.08.2013 | Politics

The controversy at Rutgers University over how the New Jersey school handled accusations that the men's basketball coach abused players is quickly bec...

Rutgers Coach Abuse Scandal Forces Internal Investigation

Reuters | Posted 04.09.2013 | Sports

(Recasts with Christie support of Rutgers president, calls for president's resignation) By David Jones NEWARK, N.J., Apr...

Rutgers President To Hold Town Hall In Newark

AP | KATIE ZEZIMA | Posted 04.09.2013 | College

NEWARK, N.J. — When Rutgers University President Robert Barchi visits the school's Newark campus Monday, he will encounter some students and fac...

Rutgers Basketball Scandal Deepens

AP | GEOFF MULVIHILL | Posted 04.07.2013 | Sports

The FBI is investigating whether a former Rutgers basketball employee tried to extort the university before he made videos that showed ex-coach Mike R...

F.B.I. Investigating Former Rutgers Assistant

The New York Times | Posted 04.06.2013 | Sports

The F.B.I. is investigating whether the assistant at Rutgers who first voiced concerns about the abusive behavior of his boss, Mike Rice, tried to ext...

ESPN Cameraman Hit By Water Balloon At Rutgers

Posted 04.06.2013 | Sports

By Matt Yoder, Awful Announcing ESPN's John Barr was on the Rutgers campus for the facepalm-inducing press conference of Rutgers president Robert B...

Rutgers Basketball Scandal Timeline

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 04.05.2013 | Sports

A timeline of key events in a scandal that led to the firing of Rutgers men's basketball coach Mike Rice and the resignation of Athletic Director Tim ...

Tyler Kingkade

Rutgers President Responds To Calls For Resignation

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 04.05.2013 | College

Rutgers University President Robert Barchi will not resign from his post, he said at a Friday afternoon press conference to discuss how the administra...

Why I Hate Sports

Tom Judson | Posted 04.05.2013 | Gay Voices
Tom Judson

In the classroom I held my own and in the music department I excelled, but these things didn't really matter at our school; esteem was earned by athletic prowess and nothing else.

Report: Rutgers AD Out

AP | TOM CANAVAN | Posted 04.06.2013 | Sports

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- A person familiar with the decision says Tim Pernetti is out as Rutgers athletic director. The person spoke on condition of ...

Two Rutgers Players Defend Fired Coach

AP | TOM CANAVAN | Posted 04.04.2013 | Sports

PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Two Rutgers basketball players on Mike Rice's team say the fired coach wasn't the abusive tyrant he appears to be on a widely...

College Players Have Little Defense Against Abusive Coaches

Dan Grunfeld | Posted 04.04.2013 | Sports
Dan Grunfeld

I don't know any of the Rutgers players, or how they felt about their coach, but I know the way he treated them involved bullying, intimidation, and abuse. There is no room for that in the sports world, especially amongst student-athletes.

The Real Madness of Sports Culture

Eliza Byard | Posted 04.04.2013 | Gay Voices
Eliza Byard

How is it possible that behavior that could lead to arrest in public is tolerated within the culture of sports? How is it that violently homophobic language is decried in school communities yet excused in the private world of teams?

On Men's Basketball Violence

Kevin Powell | Posted 04.04.2013 | Sports
Kevin Powell

Somewhere in this terrible moment I thought about manhood, how it is often defined in our society. And how these players were openly rejecting what many of us had been taught since we were boys: That men do not cry.

Guide To Rutgers Basketball Scandal

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 04.04.2013 | Sports

Rutgers University fired men's basketball coach Mike Rice this week after the public airing of video showing him berating players. An at-a-glance look...

Politicians, Rutgers Faculty Call For More Firings In Basketball Scandal

AP | REMA RAHMAN and ANGELA DELLI SANTI | Posted 04.05.2013 | Sports

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — The call from faculty members and politicians to oust top Rutgers University administrators grew louder Thursday, a day af...