News Analysis: Watchdog of College Sports Confronts Unfinished Work

The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, is widely credited with providing a blueprint for cleaning up many of the problems in college sports over the past two decades.

But now that athletics departments operate in a far more complex business environment, how does the commission remain an effective watchdog?

"In 1989, their voice was needed," says James E. Delany, commissioner of the Big Ten Conference and a longtime

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