Posted on 09 June 2014. Tags: Basketball, coaching salaries, Elinor Ostrom, Hoosiers, Indiana University, Tom Crean
Crean was in the second year of his contract at Indiana. His base salary for the 2009-10 season was $2,080,000; Ostrom, in her 35th year teaching at Indiana, made $167,018. Now in his sixth season, Crean has a 101-98 overall record with the Hoosiers. According to his contract, a copy of which was obtained through an open records request to Indiana University’s Office of General Counsel, Crean makes $600,000 in base salary.
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Posted on 09 June 2014. Tags: Basketball, coaching salaries, John Calipari, University of Kentucky, Wildcats
Calipari and Kentucky were brought together at last. His new contract, according to university documents, included a country club membership, two new cars, event tickets, and $31.65 million (this sum does not include performance based bonuses) over the course of eight years. Calipari also signed a two year extension to the contract that keeps him in Kentucky until 2019 with similar incentives.
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Posted on 09 June 2014. Tags: Basketball, Blue Devils, Coach K, coaching salaries, Duke University, Mike Krzyzewski
In the fall of 1968, Duke’s Academic Council—the university’s equivalent of a faculty senate—convened an ad hoc committee to explore the financial and moral well-being of the school’s athletic program. The inquiry arose from concerns over the athletic department’s $500,000 annual deficit, but its goals were loftier. “We hoped we could reconstitute athletics to be what it could be, [so it] would not dominate the scene like it does today,” says retired Duke Sociology professor Jack Preiss, who was among the committee’s five members.
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Posted on 02 June 2014. Tags: Basketball, Billy Donovan, coaching salaries, Florida Gators, NCAA, University of Florida
Although a loss to eventual tournament champion Connecticut during this year’s NCAA Final Four ended the top-seeded Gators’ season abruptly, the regular season was a success. It included a record for longest winning streak in UF history (30 games), another for most wins in a season by any Florida team, and only the second most in the SEC (36 games), and the feat of becoming the first Southeastern Conference team to complete an 18-0 regular season.
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Posted on 02 June 2014. Tags: Basketball, Cardinals, coaching salaries, Rick Pitino, University of Louisville
Less than a mile from the medical school in downtown Louisville is the newly built KFC Yum! Center: an estimated $238 million dollar arena, home of college basketball’s most valuable team worth $39.5 million, according to Forbes magazine. Inside, the arena boasts 72 luxury suites that cost from $75,000 to $95,000, four meeting rooms with a total square footage of 33,926, and a seating capacity for more than 22,000.
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Posted on 29 May 2014. Tags: Basketball, Lady Techsters, Louisiana Tech, NCAA, Pat Summitt, Tyler Summitt, women's basketball
Tyler Summitt, the son of now-retired Tennessee women’s Hall of Fame basketball coach Pat Summitt, became the head coach for the Louisiana Tech women’s basketball team on April 2, 2014. At 23, Summitt is the youngest head coach in Louisiana Tech’s history. He is the sixth person to hold that position since the program’s inaugural season in 1974.
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Posted on 01 July 2010. Tags: Amelie Mauresmo, Anna Rawson, Athletes, Basketball, Billie Jean King, Gay, Golf, Homosexuality, Jim Buzinski, LPGA, Outsports.com, Rugby, Sheryl Swoopes, Sports, Tennis, WNBA
When it comes to homosexuality in the United States, athletics is a third-rail issue, more so for men than women.
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