Jonathan Mahler

The storm that’s slowly rolling toward Indianapolis quietly gained strength this week with the filing of several devastating documents in a federal court in California. If it stays on course, it’s going to hit with biblical force, reducing the National Collegiate Athletic Association to a heap of rubble. This storm is also known as O’Bannon […]

The Frozen Four, college ice hockey’s equivalent of basketball’s Final Four, begins Thursday night in Pittsburgh. This year’s surviving quartet features none of the traditional college hockey powerhouses: no University of Minnesota, no Boston University, no Boston College. It does, however, feature college hockey’s version of Florida Gulf Coast University — Quinnipiac University. Like FGCU, […]

Whatever else Manti Te’o manages to accomplish in his interview with Katie Couric, the humiliated Notre Dame linebacker will at least be proving Karl Marx right: All historical events really do occur twice, first as tragedy, then as farce. Last year, we watched a mythic college football program — Joe Paterno’s Penn State — unravel […]

Poor Mark Emmert. The president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association has had to stand idly by as college football reconstitutes itself around him. Rutgers and the University of Maryland last month made a mockery of his association’s stated ideals by bolting for the Midwest’s Big Ten Conference and its TV money. Coaches, too, are […]