June 4, 2004

Rice U. Backs Away From Major Changes in Sports

By WELCH SUGGS

Owls will try to reduce athletics deficit but won't downgrade program

Amid runaway costs, attention-grabbing scandals, and growing skepticism, presidents and trustees of Division I-A institutions have to ask themselves: Are big-time sports worth it?

By most estimations, fewer than a dozen athletics departments in the top echelon of the National Collegiate Athletic Association cover their expenses. Eighteen of the 117 universities in Division I-A will change conferences over the

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