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FILE - This undated file photo released by Concierge Auctions on Wednesday May 8, 2013 shows a lake home owed by Alabama head football coach Nick Saban on Lake Burton in Clayton, Ga. The house, originally listed at $10.95 million, is scheduled to be sold at auction June 6. (AP Photo/Concierge Auctions, File)

Saban offers Bama tix in auction tied to home sale

University of Alabama coach Nick Saban offered Crimson Tide football tickets, sideline passes and an office tour in a charity auction linked to the sale of his multimillion-dollar lake home, set for Thursday. The New York-based company selling Saban's north Georgia home at Lake Burton, Concierge Auctions, said fans could ...

Time to take college presidents out of sports?

Holden Thorp is packing up after nearly five years as chancellor at the University of North Carolina, preparing for his next job as provost at Washington University in St. Louis. It's no accident he's leaving a school that regularly plays for national titles at the NCAA's highest level to one ...

Ohio St trustees: More gaffes could mean dismissal

The president of Ohio State University could be fired for any more verbal gaffes, trustees told him in a letter that said his mockery of Notre Dame, Roman Catholics and the Southeastern Conference have embarrassed and divided the university and run the risk of diminishing the effectiveness of its efforts. ...

SEC meetings end with little scheduling resolution

The Southeastern Conference held one of its shortest business meetings in league history Friday. The powerful conference wrapped up its annual spring meetings with presidents and chancellors not taking a single vote, quite possibly the first time that's happened in the league's 80-year history. "Shortest meeting in the history of ...

This photo made Sunday, May 5, 2013, shows Ohio State president E. Gordon Gee gesturing as he speaks during the Ohio State University spring commencement in Columbus, Ohio. Gee told a university committee last December that Notre Dame wasn’t invited to join the Big Ten because they’re not good partners while also jokingly saying that “those damn Catholics” can’t be trusted. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Ohio St president jabs Notre Dame, Catholics, SEC

The president of Ohio State University said Notre Dame was never invited to join the Big Ten conference because the university's priests are not good partners, joking that "those damn Catholics" can't be trusted, according to a recording of a meeting he attended late last year. Gordon Gee also took ...

SEC coaches plan to avoid offseason jabs, jokes

South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier fondly recalled one of his best jabs. "Citrus and UT, now that's original," the head ball coach said Wednesday. The former Florida coach was referring to his late-1990s joke about rival Tennessee, which played in the Citrus Bowl three times over a four-year span. "You ...

Alabama's Saban calls for SEC to expand schedule

Alabama coach Nick Saban has a strong — and seemingly solitary — stance on the Southeastern Conference potentially moving to a nine-game league schedule. Saban said Tuesday he would like to see the SEC expand from eight to nine games, an opinion that surely will draw debate and dissent during ...

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