UNC skates for conspiring to under-educate athletes, while a student gets hit for going to class

The organization is scapegoated for higher education's failures

Celebrating the NCAA means cheering on an unpaid working class, lip service to education and damaging racial tropes

Duke University's Coach K makes $8.9 million to guide a team of unpaid players who assume all the physical risk

The three most prominent candidates have all turned down the men's basketball job at North Carolina, leaving a field of little knowns.

Why his addiction to chalk in his NCAA tournament bracket is a fitting microcosm of his presidency

NCAA Tournament: The last underdog goes down -- but how doggy was Davidson? Plus: Obama bracket clinches presidency.

"Indentured" co-author Joe Nocera discusses exploitation in college sports and efforts to reform the NCAA

If you want to understand America, you don't have to watch all this basketball. But it helps.

The second day of the NCAA Tournament nearly matches the thrills of the first, but the upsets won't come so easy in the second round.

Why is every decent American not railing against this exploitative, vindictive institution that has had such a disastrous effect on higher education?

Everything you need to know to join in on the Monday morning office break-room chatter

A Hall of Fame debate worth having. Plus: Vasectomy madness in Oregon. And: Billy Crystal suits up.

A 324-team field would add excitement and give hope to underdogs. Almost as good, it'd get rid of the dumb conference championships.