Alcohol/Drugs/Gambling
 HEAD TRAUMA    Concussion Confusion   Despite growing attention being paid to the head trauma issue, there are still many who don't know -- and aren't doing – anything about it.   Inside Higher Ed, 4-19-13
 
 NON SPORTS COMPETITION    Not All Fun and Games   College students’ competitiveness and inventiveness extends into a profusion of beer drinking games.    Inside Higher Ed, 4-10-13
 
March 2013
 VICES    Like a hungry wolf, fiscally-challenged New Jersey eyes sports betting   And why not? Vegas has it, England has it and NJ already has Atlantic City.   New York Times, 3-28-13
 
 
February 2013
 GAMBLING    Fixing the Perfect Match   Match-fixing has become a major problem in European professional soccer.   Why not other sports? Other leagues?   NY Times, 2-5-13
 
January 2013
 DRUGS    NCAA drug-testing draws criticism   Drug Free Sport does testing for the NCAA and 300 individual colleges.  Here’s how.   New York Times, 1-6-12
 
  VICES    Despite benefits, NCAA claims gambling hurts sports' integrity   Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author weighs in on sports gambling and its potential effect on college sports.   By Frank Deford, NPR, 1-2-13
 
December 2012
 WAGERING    Betting Against a Gambling Ban   New Jersey is flouting a federal law on sports wagers, and draws a challenge from pro leagues and the NCAA.   Wall Street Journal, 12-17-12
 
 DRUGS    Steroids are still around college football   An in-depth investigation by the AP shows that despite claims to the contrary, college football programs are rife with the use of illegal steroids. AP, 12-20-12
 
 GAMBLING    Brief: NJ law 'blatant violation'   A deposition filed this week by pro leagues and the NCAA was sharply critical of the state of New Jersey for seeking to legalize sports gambling.   ESPN.com, 12-7-12
 
October 2012
 GAMBLING    Multinational companies lining up to cash in big if American gambling sports landscape opens   An exec at England's largest bookmaker says, "Sports betting is widespread throughout the US today and 99% of it is illegal, unregulated and run by criminals."    Yahoo! Sports, 10-25-12
 
 GAMBLING    It’s called “gaming,” not “gambling” or “betting”   Clips eFlash   Should sports betting be allowed in New Jersey? Why not? It’s already in Las Vegas. And Montana, and Delaware, and Oregon.   Yahoo! Sports, 10-20-12
 
 CONCUSSIONS    NCAA names first chief medical officer   Nationally respected neurosurgeon will start January 2013.   NCAA.org,
 
September 2012
 DRUGS    High-Stakes Test You Can't Study For   A 2009 NCAA survey of institutions across all three divisions found that 92 to 96 percent of programs do random testing of all sports.  Inside Higher Ed, 9-27-12
 
 DRUGS    “They’re asking a 12-year old to pee in a cup”   States with middle schools conducting drug tests include Texas, New Jersey, Ohio, Florida, Missouri and Arkansas. New York Times (front page), 9-23-12
 
 DRUGS    An inside look: How drug testing works   An NCAA.org reporter took a walkthrough of a drug test, something that thousands of NCAA student-athletes experience each year.    NCAA.org, 8-6-12
 
August 2012
 DRUGS    Where there's smoke, there's fire when it comes to synthetic marijuana   Synthetic marijuana -- with street names like K2 and Spice -- is a designer drug with a high "100 times" as potent as regular marijuana. And more destructive.   CBSSports.com, 8-17-12
 
May 2012
 IMAGE    LAX popularity soars, but party image persists   Coaches and ADs are concerned that the visibility of men’s lacrosse might lead to problems akin to football and hockey. Bloomberg Bus. News, 5-25-12
 
 BEER    Moderation in game day things   Can a former party school lead the way in battling alcohol use?  Yup.  Toledo Blade, 5-12-12
 
April 2012
 DRUGS   Athletes are getting more than high after a big victory   Studies show that college football players rank as the highest percentage of marijuana smokers of student-athletes. ESPN The Magazine, 4-30-12.
 
March 2012
 
 FF    Political trends guru lists Final Four probabilities    Hot off the press—or, in Clips parlance—from the Tuesday Morning Read, comes as scholarly an analysis of who will go how far in the Big Dance.  (Mississippi Valley State has 1 in 32,299,841 chance of winning the tournament).   NY Times, 3-13-12
 
 DRUGS    A Simple Reason Schools Drug Test   Cold, hard logic wins again.   Bylaw Blog, 3-10-12
 
February 2012
 ALCOHOL    The Case of the 'Stupid Drunk'   A high-profile trial puts a spotlight on alcohol abuse on campuses, and the problems of trying to intervene.   Chronicle of Higher Education, 2-27-12
 
 COACHING    The resurrection of Larry Eustachy   If he is not the poster child of major college coach second chances, then who is?   Yahoo! Sports, 2-25-12
 
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