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  Sandusky charity to shut down, transfer programs May 25, 2012 12:00 AM
  
  

   

• Northwestern lacrosse advances to championship with 9-7 winMay 25, 2012 12:00 AM
  Taylor Thornton scored twice, including the game-winning goal with 16:19 remaining and second-seeded Northwestern advanced to another women's lacrosse national championship game with a 9-7 victory over No. 3 Maryland on Friday night.
  

   
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  WVU: Ex-football coach Bill Stewart dies May 21, 2012 12:00 AM
  Former West Virginia football coach Bill Stewart, who was hailed as Rich Rodriguez's successor but wound up leaving the school in a messy split, died Monday of what athletic department officials said was an apparent heart attack. He was 59.
  

   

• Northwestern Lacrosse to play Maryland in Final Four May 21, 2012 12:00 AM
  For the eighth straight season, Northwestern will compete in the final four of the NCAA Women's Lacrosse Tournament. The Wildcats (19-2) will play Maryland (19-3) on Friday at the Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium in Stony Brook, N.Y. The winner will take on either No. 4 Syracuse or No. 1 Florida for the national title on May 27.
  

   

• Northwestern women beat Duke in NCAA lacrosse May 20, 2012 12:00 AM
  
  

   

• Schaumburg Boomers owner to co-own another team May 18, 2012 12:00 AM
  On the very day the Schaumburg Boomers baseball team began its inaugural season on the road, owner Patrick Salvi Friday announced that he'd become a partner in a collegiate baseball team on the East Coast — the Martha's Vineyard Sharks.
  

   
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  Ex-Syracuse coach Fine’s wife: Life is ruined May 16, 2012 12:00 AM
  The wife of fired Syracuse University assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine claimed Wednesday that ESPN maliciously trampled her reputation by broadcasting salacious stories about her and about claims that her husband molested ball boys. Laurie Fine held a news conference Wednesday and threatened to file a libel lawsuit in federal court against the cable network and two employees.
  

   

• Delany: National title game likely to be bid on May 16, 2012 12:00 AM
  How about a national championship game in Detroit? Or Minneapolis? What about Boston or New York? With college football headed toward a playoff, Big Ten administrators this week came out in favor of staging those games in bowls, a step that would keep the conference's longstanding ties to the Rose Bowl.
  

   

• Sandusky renews effort to have charges thrown out May 16, 2012 12:00 AM
  
  

   

• Big Ten prefers bowl games for playoff sites May 15, 2012 12:00 AM
  
  

   
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  Manchester City’s win ranks among top comebacks May 15, 2012 12:00 AM
  
  

   

• Former Illini Crandall Head signs at SMU, source says May 10, 2012 12:00 AM
  
  

   
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  Penn St. ex-coach wants sex-abuse trial postponed May 9, 2012 12:00 AM
  
  

   
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  NIU football tickets on sale for Soldier Field game May 7, 2012 12:00 AM
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• Stanford AD Bowlsby accepts Big 12 job, sources say May 3, 2012 12:00 AM
  
  

   
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  Notre Dame QB Rees jailed in police confrontation May 3, 2012 12:00 AM
  Police pepper-sprayed Notre Dame quarterback Tommy Rees and put him in jail early Thursday after he allegedly raised his knee and knocked the wind out of a police officer who had chased him down following an off-campus house party.
  

   
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  Illinois adding Drake guard Rayvonte Rice May 1, 2012 12:00 AM
  
  

   
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  Colts make NIU’s Harnish final choice of 2012 draft Apr 28, 2012 12:00 AM
  
  

   

• BCS takes big step toward football Final Four Apr 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  College football is on the verge of finally having a playoff, its own version of the final four. For the first time, all the power brokers who run the highest level of the sport are comfortable with the idea of deciding a championship the way it's done in just about every other sport. "Yes, we've agreed to use the P word," Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said.
  

   
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  76ers sign NIU’s Xavier Silas Apr 25, 2012 12:00 AM
  Former Northern Illinois mens basketball player Xavier Silas has signed a contract on Tuesday to join Philadelphia 76ers for the remainder of the season. Silas is slated to be in uniform for his first NBA game on Wednesday night when Philadelphia visits the Milwaukee Bucks.