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Academic reforms for baseball may be overturned
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Omaha floats new ballpark for CWS, O-Royals
Neighbors oppose BC ballpark plan
Dean of the baseball diamond
Rules of money game will change
MTSU ballpark 'slightly behind' schedule
New USC ballpark will need a rally to make it on time |
Emergency
legislation adopted last month by the NCAA Board
of Directors to improve college baseball's
academic record is facing opposition from member
schools who might force an override of the
reforms. That was the message Big 12 Commissioner
Kevin Weiberg delivered Monday to the Knight
Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate
Athletics. Baseball players have underachieved
when measured by the NCAA's academic progress rate
(APR), which tracks the retention of scholarship
athletes and their progress toward degrees. Key
elements in the legislation (effective in 2008-09)
require players to be academically eligible in the
fall in order to compete in the spring and
eliminates the one-time transfer exemption. What
has drawn broad criticism from coaches is
requiring scholarships to be divided into nothing
smaller than 33% and capping the players on
scholarship at 27.
Omaha
Mayor Mike Fahey is actively pursuing the option
of building a $50-million-plus ballpark in the
so-called NoDo area between the Creighton
University campus and the Qwest Center Omaha in
the northern side of downtown Omaha, replacing
More
than 60 Brighton residents came out last week against Boston College's proposal
to build a 2,000-seat ballpark near their homes on former Archdiocese of Boston
property. BC's nascent plans, which are to be filed with the BRA next month,
call for adding baseball, softball, and two multipurpose fields on the Brighton
Campus, as the college calls the newly acquired site. Also planned are a
14,000-square-foot sports support facility and a 200-space garage, according to
Jack Dunn, Boston College director of public affairs. Dunn said the baseball
stadium, which would hold 1,500 more seats than BC's field near Chestnut Hill
Reservoir, would still be one of the smallest facilities in the Atlantic Coast
Conference, which BC joined two years ago.
The
Christian Science Monitor writes up John W. Winkin, the longtime collegiate
baseball coach currently at Husson College in Bangor, Maine. Short and sinewy,
his skin tanned and creased like a well-worn leather glove, Winkin is a legend
in collegiate baseball circles. He coached the University of Maine's Black Bears
for 22 years, leading the team to six NCAA Division I College World Series
appearances, and at Colby College for 20 years before that. He was tapped as an
assistant coach at Husson in 1996, at age 76, after UMaine chose not to renew
his contract.
The
State's Ron Morris says it will be a stretch to see a new ballpark at the
University of South Carolina open on Feb. 22, 2008. USC officials say it's
doable, but they admit they're a little nervous about the prospects. With site
work still being done on the $28 million project, USC will need every potential
work day to complete the project; a stretch of unseasonably wet weather could
delay the project. Still, it wouldn't be the end of the world if the ballpark
wasn't totally completed on Opening Day -- truth be known, not all baseball
facilities are -- and it wouldn't be the end of the world if the Gamecocks
played some nonconference games at Sarge Frye Field.