The NCAA announced on Wednesday that its men’s and women’s basketball tournaments will be held without fans in response to the coronavirus pandemic, limiting attendance to “essential staff and limited family.”

The NCAA will permit spring-sport Division I athletes who had their seasons shortened by the coronavirus outbreak to have an additional year of eligibility

The organization said Thursday it is canceling the tournaments due to the “evolving COVID-19 public health threat.”

The buzzer-beaters, upsets and all the other shining moments of this year’s NCAA tournaments will be played in mostly empty arenas. Trying to avoid spreading the new coronavirus that has become a global pandemic, the NCAA decided the men’s and women’s tournament games will be off-limits to the general public. NCAA President Mark Emmert said Wednesday that he made...

What normally would be thought an impossibility isn’t so far-fetched as the United States and the rest of the world attempt to contain the spread of the new coronavirus.

The NCAA is stepping up its lobbying efforts as Congress considers allowing endorsement money for college athletes

The NCAA will now permit elite athletes to be paid for training expenses by the U.S. Olympic Committee and other national governing bodies.

The Division I Council adopted the legislation Wednesday at the NCAA convention and it is effective immediately.

A woman was charged with attempted homicide in a Pittsburgh stabbing that critically injured former Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor, who is also facing a charge, police said. Pryor was taken to the hospital just after 4:30 a.m. Saturday following a dispute with “mutual combatants” in an apartment on the city’s North Side, police said. Allegheny County prosecutors and police...

The United States’ largest governing body for college athletics took the first step Tuesday toward allowing amateur athletes to cash in on their fame, voting unanimously to permit them to “benefit from the use of their name, image and likeness.” The NCAA and its member schools now must figure out how to allow athletes to profit while still maintaining rules...

A state senator says it’s time to let college athletes make money off their abilities.

Twenty people, including members of the Colombo crime family, have been charged with a litany of crimes, including racketeering, extortion and loansharking, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.

Two-time NCAA champion Abrahm DeVine is accusing his former team at Stanford of homophobia and claiming that he was kicked off the team because he is gay, NBC News reported. “Plain and simple: There are surface-level reasons I was kicked off the Stanford swim team, but I can tell you with certainty that it comes down to the fact that...

Defying the NCAA, California opened the way Monday for college athletes to hire agents and make money from endorsement deals with sneaker companies, soft drink makers and other sponsors, just like the pros.

In defiance of the NCAA, the new California law will let college athletes hire agents and make money from endorsements.

More than one-third of college athletic trainers say coaches influence the hiring and firing of their schools’ sports-medicine staffs, a finding that counters an NCAA-recommended protocol urging medical staff to make decisions about athlete health independent of coaches and administrators. Among the 1,796 athletic trainers who answered a recent survey, more than 48 percent said their school was not following...

As if local sports fans needed more to cheer about, Boston has been named the best city for hockey in the United States. According to a study by WalletHub, Boston topped all other U.S. cities when it came to the hockey experience. The online finance site took into consideration stadium capacity, ticket prices and team performance, among other factors.

Despite being a member of the Bruins for barely three months, Charlie Coyle has something in common with several other long-time B’s. Coyle watched from afar as a 21-year-old rookie with the Minnesota Wild in 2013 when the Bruins lost Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final vs. the Chicago Blackhawks on TD Garden ice. He can relate to seeing...

The Virginia Cavaliers, winners of this year’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament, won’t be going to the White House to celebrate with President Donald Trump. Head coach Tony Bennett tweeted Friday that the team has “received inquiries about a visit to the White House” but “would have to respectfully decline an invitation.”

Hall of Fame basketball player John Havlicek died Thursday at the age of 79. Havlicek won eight NBA titles with the Celtics and an NCAA title with the Ohio State Buckeyes.

A college gymnast is asking social media to stop sharing the video of her devastating leg injuries because “my pain is not your entertainment.” Auburn senior Samantha Cerio wrote on Twitter Wednesday that seeing her “knees bent unnaturally in real life was horrible enough,” but she says continuing to see the video and photos because people feel entitled to repost...