Olympic gold: Colleges, Team USA search for new ways to win
EDDIE PELLS, AP National Writer
April 6, 2021
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FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2020, file photo, Minnesota s Shane Wiskus competes during an NCAA gymnastics meet in Chicago. Wiskus is an Olympic hopeful who moved to the Olympic Training Center (OTC) in Colorado Springs after his college program, Minnesota, announced it would be shutting down its program.Kamil Krzaczynski/AP
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) It’s a point of pride that stretches across dozens of universities, many of them rivals, and all the college sports leagues, many of which compete for the same dollars and the same talent. As one banner on the Pac-12 conference s website puts it: “Olympians made here.”
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) â To hear many of those in charge of Division I programs tell it, the state of play for womenâs sports could get worse, not better, under proposals that would put more money in the pockets of some college athletes.
Via a new Associated Press survey of athletic directors, and in conversations with ADs and conference commissioners during March Madness, a picture emerged of concern for sports other than the two largest revenue-generators, football and menâs basketball.
The AP asked 357 ADs a series of online questions shortly before various differences between the menâs and womenâs basketball tournaments were put on full display over the past two weeks, drawing complaints from players and coaches, along with mea culpas from the NCAA. Granted anonymity in exchange for candor, 99 athletic directors participated.