Berkeley Chancellor Responds to BFA Letter

BY HANK REICHMAN Yesterday I posted to this blog the text of a letter from UC Berkeley professors Michael Burawoy and Celeste Langan, co-chairs of the UC Berkeley Faculty Association (BFA), a partner organization of the AAUP, calling for a new probe of alleged abuses in the university’s intercollegiate football program.  The request came after…

Total NFL Draft Picks by University

BY MARTIN KICH Here are the schools with the most NFL draft picks between 1996 and 2015: USC: 69 LSU: 63 Oklahoma: 57 Georgia: 56 Florida State: 54 (tie) Alabama: 53 (tie) Ohio State: 53 Miami: 46 Florida: 45 Wisconsin: 42 (tie) Clemson: 41 (tie) Texas: 41 (tie) California: 40 (tie) Notre Dame: 40 (tie)…

First-Round NFL Draft Picks by School

BY MARTIN KICH Here is the list, by school, for 2016: 5: Ohio State: Joey Bosa (No. 3 overall), Ezekiel Elliott (4), Eli Apple (10), Taylor Decker (16),Darron Lee (20) 3: Ole Miss: Laremy Tunsil (13), Laquon Treadwell (23), Robert Nkemdiche (29) 2: Florida: Vernon Hargreaves III (11), Keanu Neal (17) 2: Notre Dame: Ronnie Stanley (6), Will Fuller (21) Alabama: Ryan Kelly (18) Baylor: Corey Coleman (15) California: Jared Goff (1) Clemson: Shaq Lawson (19) Florida State: Jalen Ramsey (5) Georgia: Leonard Floyd (9) Houston – William Jackson III (24) Louisville: Sheldon…

Principles and Intercollegiate Athletics

The following paragraphs are taken from an article written by Dom Amore for the Hartford Courant: “The [Connecticut] governor’s ban on state-paid travel to North Carolina does not preclude college sports teams from playing games there. “In the short term, the ban, which Gov. Dannel P. Malloy issued on March 31 in response to a North Carolina…