Knight Commission Starts a New Round of Talks on Reforming College Sports

By WELCH SUGGS

The Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics has rejoined the battle over college-sports reform. In a meeting here last month, the panel heard a debate on the Bowl Championship Series and a discussion of the murky finances of college athletics departments.

This is the third incarnation of the commission, which issued influential reports in 1991 and 2001 calling for college presidents to take control of sports and to rein in rampant academic abuses involving athletes,

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College Presidents Call for Increased Disclosure of Athletics Spending - November 10, 2006
Knight Commission to Reconvene This Fall - May 23, 2003
NCAA Board Rejects Idea of Creating Outside Group to Push for Reform - September 7, 2001
A Decade Later, Sports-Reform Panel Plans Another Look at Big-Time Athletics - June 16, 2000
News Analysis: Watchdog of College Sports Confronts Unfinished Work - October 21, 2009

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