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The ACC has dominated NCAA women's soccer for years, but for Alabama to become the best, it has to beat the best, beginning with Duke.

Northwestern Now Derrick Gragg will begin July 1. Long-time athletic director and diversity and inclusion leader Derrick Gragg has been named Northwestern University’s new Combe Family Vice President for Athletics & Recreation, President Morton Schapiro announced Friday (June 4). Gragg, the NCAA’s senior vice president for inclusion, education and community engagement, will begin July 1. “I am thrilled and humbled to join the Northwestern University family at this pivotal moment in college athletics,” Gragg said. “My career has been shaped by an unwavering belief in t...

When Northwestern named Mike Polisky its next athletic director on Monday, some faculty members moved to organize.  Six professors co-signed a Wednesday open letter to Provost Kathleen Hagerty, calling on the University to increase transparency in the selection process.  “The hiring of Polisky… signals a troubling continuity in Athletic Department leadership that, while successful in some areas, failed the University and its students in significant ways,” the letter stated. “We are alarmed by this decision and, indeed, embarrassed on behalf of the university.” Polisky was named a ...