TOPIC: NCAA Waivers

With many athletes both graduating and transferring as the school year winds down, there are many questions about which football and basketball players will be eligible immediately as graduate students. Because this area has changed so much in the last … [Read More]

Grant Gibbs, running mate for All-American Doug McDermott at Creighton, may be seeking a sixth year. But Gibbs will have a challenging and uncertain case, even if the school gets the go-ahead from its law firm to file the case: … [Read More]

It was not a shock to Old Dominion that Donte Hill’s eligibility for the upcoming year was uncertain. The school knew that Hill, a transfer from Clemson, would need some help from the NCAA to be eligible for his fifth … [Read More]

Eddie Young, sidelined for weeks while his eligibility was sorted out, was not given a fifth year by the NCAA today. Details about the ruling are sparse, but also unknown is what it means for the UC-Riverside baseball team. They … [Read More]

UC-Riverside is without its senior infielder Eddie Young while he awaits an NCAA ruling on his eligibility. Young should be a fifth-year senior but an administrative mistake is standing in his way: Young has been sidelined two weeks after the … [Read More]

Orlando Sanchez, on St. John’s third attempt, was granted a waiver by the NCAA to regain one season of competition, which he will use in 2013–14. But exactly one season is a curious decision from the NCAA. Here is Sanchez’s … [Read More]

Penn State offensive lineman Garry Gilliam was granted a sixth-year waiver by the NCAA: Gilliam suffered a serious knee injury in the 2010 Big Ten opener at Iowa, the fifth game of the season, and missed the entire 2011 campaign. … [Read More]

Nic Purcell, a junior college recruit from New Zealand, did not seriously take up football until he moved to the United States for college. Now after two years, he is being heavily recruited by Division I programs, including Oregon. How … [Read More]