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College football and basketball players are getting played instead of getting paid: Though they bring in the big bucks for their institutions of higher learning, more than 8 out of 10 of those FBS student-athletes are living below the poverty line, according to a new study.

Maybe the labor fight between the NFL's billionaire owners and millionaire players left a bad taste in your mouth. Maybe the league's average ticket price of $76 is just too much. But whatever the reason, you feel you deserve a deal on football. How about major college tickets?

OK, so it's that great time of year again -- March Madness. Are you ready for some basketball? In the workplace, employees love to waste time at work during the NCAA tournament. Turns out, that can be a good thing.

It's college football bowl season and the formula's ripe once again for scammers to swoop in and take advantage of amped-up fans in search of hard-to-find tickets. Warnings have already been issued about counterfeit tickets for the Rose Bowl, Sun Bowl and Fiesta Bowl. A few weeks ago, concern...

It's not a stretch to say that, for many college students, the best moments of their university years rage by in a blur of tailgaters and giant foam fingers. At most major universities nationwide, college campus culture and athletics exist like conjoined siblings: fused from the moment of...

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has officially joined the Big Ten, the oldest NCAA Division I conference, in existence since 1896. The football powerhouse had been part of the Big 12 Conference since its inception in 1994. However, rumors of the Big 12 splitting up have been circulating in the last few years, with Nebraska the first team to actually leave.

OK, so your team made the big dance. Congratulations for you and your superior college experience. Now it's time to travel. Traveling to and from the NCAA Tournament games isn't easy with the satellite system the NCAA uses for its first-round games. Instead of having higher-seeds simply host the...

A month of lost workplace productivity officially begins Monday with the start of March Madness. The brackets for the NCAA men's basketball championship tournament will be picked Sunday, and although the games don't begin until Tuesday, the annual march of not doing much work at work begins Monday...

Ohio State's Board of Trustees will vote Friday on a proposal to raise the price of tickets by $7, to $70 for reserved seats. Tickets for faculty and staff will rise $4, and students would have to pay another $1 to see a game. Prices for basketball tickets would be raised $1 for a reserved seats to $18, while prices for faculty, staff and students would jump 50 cents. Ohio State, whose last significant price increase was prior to the 2004 season, has the most expensive tickets in the Big 10.

The Wall Street Journal reports (subscription required) that NCAA basketball players participating in the big tournament are heading to the business school in droves.According to the Journal, "The Count was able to identify the majors of 636 players who will be participating in this month's men's...