Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme left thousands of victims in its wake -- and lawyers and consultants are reaping millions in payments from the financial devastation.
In denying quarterback Jeremiah Masoli a chance to play at Ole Miss this season, the NCAA noted that Masoli violated the spirit of its graduate student transfer rule. Masoli, the NCAA reasoned, had transferred only because he was thrown off the team at Oregon -- not because he longed to obtain a master's degree in Parks and Recreation from Mississippi's flagship university.
In the minutes after the NCAA selection committee announced this year's tournament bracket on Sunday night, the most curious decisions became instant debate fodder. On CBS, SI's Seth Davis wondered aloud about the respect given to the Pac-10 -- a relatively weak conference this season -- in the form of a No. 8 seed for regular-season champ Cal. On ESPN, Dick Vitale railed against the committee for awarding Wake Forest an at-large bid and leaving out Virginia Tech, which had a better overall record, a better ACC record and a head-to-head win against the Demon Deacons.
Even if you've never heard of "Carmina Burana" by Carl Orff, you've heard "Carmina Burana" by Carl Orff.
The announcement of the canceled football program came Thursday afternoon, and I immediately knew what I wanted for my children's futures:
Criminal charges will not be filed against the 18-year-old college freshman who falsely accused five men of raping her in a dormitory bathroom at Hofstra University, an official said Friday.
One of four young men falsely accused of rape at Hofstra University says it was a nightmare for him.
Four young men falsely accused of raping an 18-year-old student at Hofstra University were trying to return their lives to normal Friday after an ordeal that two of them described as traumatic.
Charges have been dropped against four men accused of raping an 18-year-old student at Hofstra University after the woman recanted her allegations, prosecutors said.
An Iranian reformist Web site on Friday released the identities of 72 people it says were killed by government forces in the aftermath of Iran's disputed presidential elections.
To understand Jay Wright's strengths as a promoter, you need to go back to one evening at Philadelphia's 30th Street Station during the spring of 1984.
He had headed one of the world's biggest stock markets, and was known as "The Voice of Wall Street." His brokerage company attracted wealthy investors, including one of the nation's most elite clubs. Then, as his firm collapsed amid the worst economic downturn in decades he admitted it had all been a sham.
Barack Obama and John McCain face off at Hofstra University in the third and final debate before the 2008 election.
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain and Democrat Sen. Barack Obama faced off at Hofstra University Wednesday night in their last debate before Election Day. Bob Schieffer of CBS was the moderator. Here is a transcript of the debate.
The third and final presidential debate is shaping up to be a make-or-break appearance for both Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama, one of the last chances to get their message out to undecided voters.
SPRINGFIELD, Pa. -- On the first day of hunting season in December 2002, Tom Savage, all of 12, lifted his 7mm-08 Remington rifle, aimed it at an 8-Point Buck, and pulled the trigger. "He won our biggest buck contest," Savage's father, Tom, says of his son's hunting debut. "The head still hangs over the bar in our log cabin."
She'd rather not watch her husband's showdowns with John McCain, she admits, "I get nervous!"
SI.com has dispatched 10 writers to report on the 32 NFL training camps across the country. For the complete schedule of postcards, click here.
There's no lab test or imaging study like a CT scan or an MRI to measure how much progress you've made in therapy. But there is a strong movement away from endless navel-gazing -- the Woody Allen stereotype of therapy going on for years, even decades, without resolution.
In the race to the Final Four in Foxborough, Mass. there is Duke and then there are the 15 schools chasing the Blue Devils.
TAMPA, Fla. -- The men's assistant poked his head in the door of the office shared by the Notre Dame women's basketball assistants one day in 1995. He approached the tall brunette who had starred in the post for the Fighting Irish a few years earlier. He spoke.
So, honestly, how can a Seattle MLS franchise possibly fail?
At Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., where the Jets are in the midst of their penultimate training camp at their year-round Long Island team complex. Starting in 2009, the Jets will move their operations to Florham Park, New Jersey, as part of their partnership with the Giants in the building of a new stadium in the Meadowlands.
It must have been early in 1971. The North American Soccer League at last had a team in New York. The Cosmos were in the process of being born, they had a name, and one or two players had been signed. But as far as I could find out, no telephone number. I called information and asked for Cosmos soccer club ... long pause: "I'm sorry, we have no entry for Cosmos supper club."
RICHMOND, Va. -- The Year After lives on, for at least another day.
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When the final horn sounded, and George Mason players raced across the floor with those familiar celebratory smiles, the player in white with the No. 1 on his uniform just stopped and stared. Hofstra senior Loren Stokes, one of the most accomplished mid-major players in the nation and a potential NBA prospect, had just seen his last shot at the NCAA tournament evaporate.
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Sarah Jessica Parker, who wore designer clothes on HBO's "Sex and the City" for six seasons, has agreed to represent the Gap in a marketing campaign that will debut in August.
Guardianship is not inevitable even if you eventually become incapacitated. But to stand a chance of sidestepping court supervision, you must draft a solid estate plan with a lawyer's help before i...
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