Outside shot: can the next NCAA president reform college sports? (Gazette).

DURING THE WINTER OF HIS junior year at tiny Albion College in Michigan, Dolph Grundman saw his basketball coach make an unusual decision: One of the team's seldom-used forwards asked if he could skip a game at nearby Olivet College to study for an exam. Few middle-school coaches, let alone college coaches, would have said yes--but low-key, diplomatic Cedric Dempsey did.

Forty years later, Dempsey is the outgoing president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and is widely known just as Grundman remembers him--as a diplomat. The organization he will leave behind ...

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