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Byline: Steve Berkowitz, @ByBerkowitz, USA TODAY Sports Best Round of 64 matchup Texas vs. Northern Iowa Texas coach Shaka Smart must feel as if he's back at Virginia Commonwealth playing [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz and, Christopher Schnaars, @ByBerkowitz and @CSchnaarsAP Over most of Steve Spurrier's run as South Carolina's football coach, he and his assistant coaches provided relatively good value for [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, @ByBerkowitz, USA TODAY Sports Head coaches aren't the only members of college football staffs eligible for significant bonuses as the season heads toward bowl games and the [...]

Byline: Dan Wolken, Steve Berkowitz and Christopher Schnaars, @DanWolken, @ByBerkowitz, @chrisschnaars, USA TODAY Sports Imagine being the athletics director of a school in the Sun Belt, Mid-American Conference or even [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, @ByBerkowitz, USA TODAY Sports While Clemson's Dabo Swinney stands to gain $800,000 in one-time bonuses and pay increases if the Tigers win this week's Atlantic Coast Conference [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, @ByBerkowitz, USA TODAY Sports LSU's decision about whether to fire football coach Les Miles might come down to a simple matter of recent wins and losses. However, [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, @ByBerkowitz, USA TODAY Sports In a new twist to the question of whether enough teams will meet the NCAA's normal qualifications for bowl participation to fill all [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY Sports It seems everybody wants a piece of the Southeastern Conference, but even a presidential candidate can get carried away. The SEC has negotiated with [...]

Byline: Erik Brady, Steve Berkowitz and Christopher Schnaars, @ByErikBrady, @ByBerkowitz and @chrisschnaars, USA TODAY Sports Wisconsin athletics director Barry Alvarez played football for Nebraska 50 years ago, when Tom Osborne [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz and Christopher Schnaars, @ByBerkowitz, @chrisschnaars, USA TODAY Sports By nearly any financial reckoning, Missouri football coach Gary Pinkel had a pretty fabulous 2014 season. His basic compensation [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, and Andrew Kreighbaum, @ByBerkowitz and @Kreighbaum The difference between what the University of Cincinnati could cover under an athletic scholarship and what it reported as the actual [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, @ByBerkowitz, USA TODAY Sports In what amounts to a Will Muschamp clause, Florida's contract with new football coach Jim McElwain contains a provision under which the school [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, @ByBerkowitz, USA TODAY Sports U.S. Soccer Federation chief executive officer Dan Flynn faced withering questioning Wednesday from a Senate subcommittee seeking to determine U.S. soccer officials' knowledge [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, @ByBerkowitz, USA TODAY Sports A look at the organizations at the center of Wednesday's announcement by federal prosecutors of a 47-count indictment alleging widespread corruption in the [...]

Byline: Erik Brady, Steve Berkowitz and Christopher Schnaars, @ByErikBrady, @ByBerkowitz, @chrisschnaars, USA TODAY Sports The rich are different from you and me, F. Scott Fitzgerald once observed, to which Ernest [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, @ByBerkowitz, USA TODAY Sports If the South Carolina women's basketball team loses in the national semifinals and the Kentucky men's team completes an undefeated run to the [...]

Byline: Erik Brady, Steve Berkowitz and Christopher Schnaars, USA TODAY Sports What, in dollars and cents, is a national title worth? That's hard to say. But the case of Kevin [...]

Byline: Erik Brady, and Steve Berkowitz, @ByErikBrady, @ByBerkowitz Kevin Ollie won one national championship for the University of Connecticut in the NCAA men's basketball tournament, and his compensation immediately surpassed [...]

Byline: Erik Brady, John Kelly, and Steve Berkowitz, @ByErikBrady, @jkelly3rd Kansas spends more money recruiting men's basketball players than any other public school in DivisionI, about $2.1million over a recent [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, @ByBerkowitz, USA TODAY Sports The Ed O'Bannon class-action antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA reaches another milestone Tuesday, when the sides engage in oral arguments before a three-judge [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, @ByBerkowitz, USA TODAY Sports The NCAA had total revenue of nearly $1 billion during its 2014 fiscal year, according to an audited financial statement the association released [...]

Byline: Erik Brady, John Kelly, and Steve Berkowitz, @ByErikBrady, @jkelly3rd Recruiting is the lifeblood of big-time college football, and the Southeastern Conference's current run of success might relate to this: [...]

Denver Broncos defensive end DeMarcus Ware doesn't know who his head coach or defensive coordinator will be in 2015, but he's confident about who will be playing quarterback for his [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, @ByBerkowitz, USA TODAY Sports Saturday at the NCAA convention, college and athlete representatives from the nation's five wealthiest conferences likely will vote to redefine an athletic scholarship [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, and Dan Wolken, @ByBerkowitz, @DanWolken A meeting including Obama administration officials, NCAA executives and college athletics directors is scheduled at the White House this week, according to [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz The College Football Playoff and the NCAA announced Tuesday that they will provide financial assistance to cover travel expenses for the families of athletes participating in the [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, @ByBerkowitz, USA TODAY Sports Renowned for its spending on football facilities, the University of Oregon has been one of the nation's least-extravagant schools this season when it [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, David Leon Moore, Christopher Schnaars, @ByBerkowitz, @DavidLeon_Moore, @chrisschnaars, USA TODAY Sports Dennis Erickson and Greg Robinson are football coaching lifers, and life goes on, even if Erickson, [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, @ByBerkowitz, USA TODAY Sports The remaining games of the pre-bowl college football season will determine champions, bowl bids and the distribution of millions of dollars to conferences, [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, @ByBerkowitz, USA TODAY Sports A Senate Commerce Committee hearing on domestic violence in professional sports resulted in league and union officials getting berated Tuesday about their top [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, @ByBerkowitz, USA TODAY Sports It long has been a practice for universities that want to hire a coach to pay the 'buyout' to get him out of [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, @ByBerkowitz, USA TODAY Sports Dino Babers is a football coach who was traded for a basketball game. Babers' job change from Eastern Illinois to Bowling Green stands [...]

Byline: Erik Brady, Steve Berkowitz, Christopher Schnaars, @ByErikBrady, @ByBerkowitz, @chrisschnaars, USA TODAY Sports Mark Richt's signature on his University of Georgia coaching contract is worth $3.3 million -- and running [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, @ByBerkowitz, USA TODAY Sports College football head coaches' contracts include a broad range of perks, bonuses and arrangements. Here are some from the USA TODAY Sports annual [...]

With major-college athletics departments under increasing financial pressure that could threaten many Olympic sport programs, U.S. Olympic Committee CEO Scott Blackmun on Tuesday outlined ways his organization could become involved [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, @ByBerkowitz, USA TODAY Sports Senate Commerce Committee chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., began a hearing on college athletics Wednesday with vigor, skepticism and the promise that this is [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, @ByBerkowitz, USA TODAY Sports On Day 1 of the trial in the Ed O'Bannon class-action antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA, the biggest development had nothing to do [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, @ByBerkowitz, USA TODAY Sports Billed as an examination of the consequences of unionizing college athletes, a House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing Thursday involved plenty of [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, @ByBerkowitz, USA TODAY Sports Tony Bennett and the University of Virginia agreed years ago that he would have to accomplish more in a season to get incentive [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, @ByBerkowitz, USA TODAY Sports The NCAA recorded a nearly $61 million surplus for its 2013 fiscal year, according to an audited financial statement the association released Thursday. [...]

Byline: Keith Sargeant and, Steve Berkowitz, @KSargeantGNJ, @ByBerkowitz To fund a sports program that university officials say will generate close to $200 million of additional revenue in its first 12 [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, @ByBerkowitz, USA TODAY Sports In 2013, two college football head coaches made at least $5 million a year -- and both had won a national championship. In [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, @ByBerkowitz, USA TODAY Sports Sure, Monday's Bowl Championship Series national title game was about the crystal football trophy, rings and the chance to say, 'We're No. 1.' [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, and Christopher Schnaars, @ByBerkowitz, @chrisschnaars Purdue and California managed to avoid joining Georgia State and Miami (Ohio) in going winless this football season, but that's probably small [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, @ByBerkowitz, USA TODAY Sports The six-year, $30 million contract football coach Kevin Sumlin signed last week with Texas A&M has buyout provisions that would result in Sumlin [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, @ByBerkowitz, USA TODAY Sports In April, after its second Bowl Championship Series national title in a row, the University of Alabama gave pay increases and contract extensions [...]

Byline: Paul Myerberg, Steve Berkowitz, and Christopher Schnaars, @PaulMyerberg, @ByBerkowitz, After so many years and so many moves, West Virginia safeties coach Tony Gibson has developed a routine. Whenever he [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, @ByBerkowitz, USA TODAY Sports While the outcomes of Saturday's conference championship games solved the mystery of which teams would play for the national title, there was plenty [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, @ByBerkowitz, USA TODAY Sports For college coaches who can get incentive bonuses, some seasons are bad, some are good and some are really good. Then there's the [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, @ByBerkowitz, USA TODAY Sports A federal judge indicated Monday he was unlikely to fully dismiss a civil fraud case against former cycling champ Lance Armstrong and several [...]