NCAA scandal

University of North Carolina college basketball team has five NCAA charges, including a lack of institutional control for poor insight of an academic department popular with athletes and the counselors that advised them. Studies department as potential improper benefits by saying that the athletes received access to courses and other assistance generally unavailable to non-athletes. The charges were more broad-based than focused on individual sports. All five charges are considered Level One violations, described by the NCAA as a "severe breach of conduct." Cunningham said it's too early to speculate on the potential sanctions the school will face.      

NCAA scandals

NCAA scandals are very serious and one NCAA scandal that happened is Syracuse is being punished for three things. Those three things are improper benefits, academic conduct, and a failure to enforce the school's drug policy. It took the NCAA eight years to finish the investigation on the improprieties within Syracuse's athletic department. The end result was one of the toughest punishments college sports has ever seen. Orange's past, present and future in handing out a penalty that includes the vacation of 108 wins from coach Jim Boeheim's record, and the loss of three scholarships per year for the next four seasons. More than anything, the NCAA is punishing Syracuse for "a lack of institutional control." Boeheim was given a nine game suspension and Syracuse has to pay up a lot of money. One million dollars and the school has to return all of the money. There is also a $500 fine per game played by an ineligible student athlete. Syracuse is being punished for violations that spanned a decade.

Emailed ECHL

I emailed someone from the ECHL and they didn't replay to my email. I emailed ECHL to get some insight or information about my project.

Proposal

For my project I am researching how the NHL, AHL, and ECHL differ in the number of players and when they can come up to play in the NHL. I want to find out how minor players can come up to play in the NHL. Also, I want to find out how many times players can be called up to play in the NHL. I want to find out what skills the players need to come play in the NHL and how the NHL teams call up the minor players to come play for their team. When I am researching for my project I am hoping that I can have a better understanding on how the NHL, AHL, and ECHL works to call up minor league players to come play in the NHL. Also, I want to find out the relationship between the teams and how it works for each NHL team to have their minor league players come play for their NHL team.

NCCA Hockey Player Arrested

NCCA hockey player Max Nicastro got arrested for Sexual Assault. Max played for BU stands for Boston University. Max is on a $25,000 cash bail and he was arrested on Charles River Campus by the Boston University Police. Nicastro was accused of sexual assault by a female student. Michael Lynch, BU athletic director, says Nicastro has been suspended from the team pending the outcome of the investigation. Max also played two seasons with the Chicago Steel of the US Hockey League, the country's top junior league, after playing for the Los Angeles Junior Kings. Max was also an All-Star with the Steel in 2009 the same year he graduated from high school. At BU, Max was a member of Hockey's East All-Rookie team in 2010. He had three goals and had six assists this season before his arrest. Max was arrested on February 21st, 2012.

Mission Statement

High School sports should be about teamwork. Many sports allows students to compete and be able to get the skill that they need. Many schools focus on sports to be competitive, winning teams, and to promote the value of school spirit and fair play. Many schools has their own goals for sports to give their students the tools and skills to achieve the mission. High school sports has a lot of things involved including teamwork, ability to win the games, build the students character and allowing them to be socially involved with other players on the team. Many schools wants their students, athletes, coaches, and spectators to behave in a sportsmanlike manner at all contests. High school sports is not about winning because the students that play a sport wants to have fun and interact with other players on the team to improve their social skills.

 http://www.beachwoodschools.org/AthleticsMission.aspx

Biggest NHL Story of 2015

Pittsburgh Penguins fire head coach Mike Johnston. Mike Johnston was hired in the summer of 2014. Johnston was fired a couple of weeks ago off to a sluggish start. Johnston's record went 58-37-18 during his brief stint with Pittsburgh. Mike Sullivan was named the head coach after Mike Johnston was fired. Sullivan was head coach of the Boston Bruins in 2003-2006. Pittsburgh Penguins record is 15-10-3 and in fifth place in the Metropolitan division. The Penguins are 28th ranked in scoring in the NHL. The Penguins hope that Sullivan will help the team the spark that they need. General manager of the Pittsburgh Penguins said, "I wanted somebody new to come in that the players aren't going to totally know, Jim Rutherford said. "I think that he can come in and mold what we're doing going forward." In 2014 Pittsburgh's record was 16-4 one of the best records in the NHL last year. The Penguins has been dealing with injures that is effecting their power play and is not allowing them to set up pretty goals rather than producing shots or traffic around the net. Pittsburgh acquired Phil Kessel to give Malkin a potent running mate and bringing in veteran forward Eric Fehr moves that will take the burden off the top line. Sidney Crosby only has 22 points this season and is off to the worst start of his decade long career. Pittsburgh is 26th with the man advantage this season. Malkin is leading the Penguins with 13 goals and 13 assists. Top goaltender Marc-Andre Fluery is on injured reserved with a concussion.

I picked this because I was surprised that the Penguins fired their head coach. The Penguins fired two head coaches in back to back seasons. Also, I wanted to do the blog on Mike Johnston getting fired because I don't like the Penguins. This was one of the biggest stories in the NHL.