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NCAA allows transfers to be immediately eligible, no matter how many times they've switched schools 04/17/2024 07:44pm • NCAA athletes will be immediately eligible to play no matter how many times they transfer — as long as they meet academic requirements — after the association fast-tracked legislation Wednesday to fall in line with a recent court order. The NCAA announced the Division I Council's decision become Canisius hires Penn State assistant Tiffany Swoffard to take over women's basketball program 04/17/2024 07:33pm • BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Canisius University hired Penn State assistant Tiffany Swoffard to coach its women’s basketball team on Wednesday. It’s a first-time head-coaching position for Swoffard, who has 19 seasons of experience as a college assistant. She takes over the Metro Atlantic Athletic Con Ellen Ash Peters, first female chief justice of Connecticut Supreme Court, dies at 94 04/17/2024 06:21pm • HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Ellen Ash Peters, who was the first woman to serve as Connecticut's chief justice and wrote the majority opinion in the state Supreme Court's landmark school desegregation ruling in 1996, has died. She was 94. Peters, who also was the first female faculty member at Yale Law Republican AGs attack Biden's EPA for pursuing environmental discrimination cases 04/17/2024 06:11pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) — Republican attorneys general attacked the Biden administration’s stated goal of pursuing environmental justice, calling it a form of “racial engineering.‘’ Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and 22 other GOP officials asked the EPA Tuesday to stop using civil rights law Georgian police fire tear gas to break up protest against so-called 'Russian law' 04/17/2024 05:58pm • TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Police in the capital of Georgia on Tuesday unleashed tear gas to break up a large demonstration outside the country's parliament to protest a proposed law that would require media and non-commercial organizations to register as being under foreign influence if they receive Columbia's president rebuts claims she has allowed the university to become a hotbed of antisemitism 04/17/2024 05:36pm • WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — Columbia University’s president took a firm stance against antisemitism in a congressional hearing on Wednesday, but she faced bruising criticism from Republicans who say her actions haven’t supported her words, especially when it comes to disciplining faculty and stude Capitals top prospect Ryan Leonard is returning to Boston College 04/17/2024 05:14pm • ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Ryan Leonard is not joining the Washington Capitals for the playoffs after all, and will return to Boston College for his sophomore season. General manager Brian MacLellan confirmed that Wednesday, saying the organization's top prospect expressed a desire to play another s Kentucky lawmaker says he wants to renew efforts targeting diversity initiatives at colleges 04/17/2024 05:12pm • A Republican lawmaker has signaled plans to mount another effort to limit diversity, equity and inclusion practices at Kentucky's public universities after GOP supermajorities failed to resolve differences on the issue during the recently ended legislative session. Kentucky lawmakers will convene ag South Carolina coach Dawn Staley gushes over congratulations from Queen B 04/17/2024 04:56pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina coach Dawn Staley has met plenty of noteworthy celebrities during her national championship run with the Gamecocks. Few have gotten the response from Staley as the note of congratulations she received from the “Queen B” herself, Beyonce. Staley posted a g Kentucky spokeswoman: School is 'distressed' to hear of alleged sexual misconduct by ex-swim coach 04/17/2024 04:34pm • LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky spokeswoman says the school is “distressed to hear disturbing allegations” of sexual assault by former swimming and diving coach Lars Jorgensen outlined in a lawsuit by two former team members and will cooperate fully with law enforcement. Former swimmer and as Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in US more likely to believe in climate change: AP-NORC poll 04/17/2024 04:17pm • Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in the United States are more likely than the overall adult population to believe in human-caused climate change, according to a new poll. It also suggests that partisanship may not have as much of an impact on this group's environmental views, The Celtics have been the NBA's most dominant team. Only a championship will make season complete 04/17/2024 03:06pm • BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Celtics know that no one cares about everything they’ve accomplished during the regular season. Being the only team to win 60 games? That’s cool. Beating 10 teams by 30 or more points and becoming the first team in NBA history to have three 50-point wins in the same se Washington Mystics consider holding some high-demand home games at Capital One Arena this year 04/17/2024 03:05pm • The Washington Mystics play in the WNBA's second-smallest arena at a time when interest in women's college basketball has gone way up. Can the arena they call home accommodate that increased interest, especially now that the stars of women’s college hoops are going pro? At least in some cases, Jade Carey and Leanne Wong are hoping their path to the Olympics goes through the NCAA Championships 04/17/2024 02:18pm • Jade Carey and Leanne Wong watched as the elite gymnasts they grew up with left college last summer so they could turn their attention to the Paris Olympics. Suni Lee headed home to Minnesota after two years at Auburn. Jordan Chiles returned to Texas following a decorated stint at UCLA. Kayla DiCell NFL draft: Top defensive players on the board 04/17/2024 02:14pm • NFL teams in need of immediate help on defense will have a tricky time finding it in the first round or two of this year's draft. As usual, edge rushers and cornerbacks will be the most highly valued defensive players. But the best of those groups don't quite stack up to their peers in recent drafts