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Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt who is nominated for the International Athletic Foundation &quot;2016 Athlete of the Year Award&quot;, gestures before a press conference, Friday, Dec. 2, 2016, in Monaco. The IAAF 2016 World Athletics Gala will take place tonight in Monaco. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

Reforms put daylight between old and new eras in athletics

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

FILE- In this Wednesday, April 9, 2014, file photo, former marathon world record holder Ethiopia's Haile Gebrselassie attends a press conference at a hotel in London. Gebrselassie has been elected president of the Ethiopian Athletics Federation. The two-time Olympic champion won Saturday night’s election after saying he believed that Ethiopian athletics was “not on the right track.” (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

Gebrselassie elected president of Ethiopian track federation

By ELIAS MESERET - Associated Press

In this June 23, 2013 file photograph, Mississippi State coach John Cohen speaks at a news conference at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Neb. Cohen was named Mississippi State's 17th director of athletics, Friday, Nov. 4, 2016 in Starkville, Miss. The current MSU head baseball coach and two-time Southeastern Conference Coach of the Year replaces Scott Stricklin, who was named athletic director at the University of Florida in September. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Mississippi State hires John Cohen as athletics director

By PAUL JONES - Associated Press

Maine football coach Cosgrove stepping down after 23 years

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FILE - In this Sept. 2, 2015, file photo, Miami wide receiver Braxton Berrios (8) grimaces in pain after an injury in the first half of an NCAA college football game against Bethune Cookman in Miami Gardens, Fla. ACC Commissioner John Swofford embraced an NCAA proposal and implemented a league-wide policy that ACC teams would be required to assign a medical observer selected by each respective school for every game _ home, away, and at neutral sites. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)

ACC’s medical observers another set of eyes to spot injury

By JOHN KEKIS - Associated Press

Maryland athletic director Kevin Anderson (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times) **FILE**

SNYDER: With guaranteed scholarships, Maryland champions education for athletes

By Deron Snyder - The Washington Times

In this image taken Sunday July 27, 2014 Australia's Francois Etoundi bronze medal winner, left, stands on the podium with gold medal winner India's Sathish Sivalingam following the men's 77kg weightlifting final at the Commonwealth Games Glasgow 2014 in Glasgow Scotland. Etoundi, was stripped of his games accreditation Thursday July 31, 2014 after being arrested over an alleged assault during an altercation in the athletes' village in Glasgow. (AP Photo/Dominic Lipinski/PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT

Comm Games athlete convicted for assault on rival

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

Southeastern Conference (SEC) Commissioner Mike Slive speaks during SEC media days on Monday, July 14, 2014, in Hoover, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)

Mike Slive: NCAA should let power conferences set own bylaws

By David Brandt - Associated Press

NCAA President Mark Emmert answers a question at a news conference Sunday, April 6, 2014, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Mark Emmert stands firm against paying NCAA athletes beyond stipends

By Tim Dahlberg - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2010, file photo, former UCLA basketball player Ed O'Bannon Jr. sits in his office in Henderson, Nev. Five years after the former UCLA star filed his antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA, it goes to trial Monday, June 9, 2014, in a California courtroom. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken, File)

Future of NCAA could be in balance as Ed O’Bannon lawsuit hearings begin

By Tim Dahlberg - Associated Press

Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Edwin Encarnacion, right, rounds the bases past Oakland Athletics starting pitcher Drew Pomeranz, left, after hitting a solo home run during the fourth inning of a baseball game in Toronto on Sunday, May 25, 2014. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Nathan Denette)

Encarnacion homers as Blue Jays sweep Athletics

By IAN HARRISON - Associated Press

The volunteers jump to take a photo on the pitch during an event at the National Stadium in Tokyo, Sunday, May 25, 2014. Tokyo's National Stadium, the centerpiece of the 1964 Summer Olympics, hosted its final sporting event on Sunday before it will be demolished to make way for a new 80,000-seat structure that will be the main venue of the 2020 Olympics. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Tokyo’s National Stadium hosts final sports event

By JIM ARMSTRONG - Associated Press

In this May 1, 2014 photo, Arizona State University athletic director Ray Anderson speaks in Tempe, Ariz. ASU is at a pivotal juncture for the future with a football stadium renovation and a new athletics district. On a broader scope, college athletics are on the verge of upheaval, with student-athletes trying to unionize and the larger conferences vying for more autonomy. Leading the Sun Devils into this time of change is former NFL executive Ray Anderson, who has no previous experience as an athletic director, but may be the perfect man for the job. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Anderson enjoying switch from NFL to ASU

By JOHN MARSHALL - Associated Press

Oakland Athletics' Yoenis Cespedes connects for an RBI double off Chicago White Sox pitcher Scott Carroll in the fifth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, May 13, 2014, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo)

Reddick, Moss homer in A’s 11-0 win over White Sox

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A’s salvage finale against Red Sox, 3-2

By KEN POWTAK - Associated Press

Declining schools take toll on Gary athletics

By STEVE HANLON - Associated Press

Uganda suspends track coach over sex abuse charges

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

W.Va. administrators debate summer practice rule

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Former marathon world record holder Ethiopia's Haile Gebrselassie, aged 40, who will be the pacemaker for the elite men's runners at the London Marathon, poses for photographers at a hotel in London, Wednesday, April 9, 2014. The London marathon takes place on Sunday. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Gebrselassie worried about future of athletics

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

Oakland Athletics' Dan Straily works against the Seattle Mariners in the first inning of a baseball game on Saturday, April 5, 2014, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Straily, Athletics can’t beat King Felix

By RICK EYMER - Associated Press