Volleyball team sponsors clinic. The Stevens Institute of Technology men???s volleyball team conducted a girls volleyball clinic in Staten Island on Saturday. Student-athletes from Stevens have been running these clinics for the past five years. The free clinic was attended by more than 110 high school players from the five boroughs of New York City.

South Carolina sends academic message. South Carolina athletics director Eric Hyman is demanding better academic performance from the school???s student-athletes. Hyman is instituting a program on October 1 that will provide mandatory tutoring sessions and extra work for struggling student-athletes. If student-athletes miss class or study halls, they will miss practice time and even competitions. I like that Hyman is taking a stand on academic performance. If a reserve on the soccer team isn???t going to class, he shouldn???t be allowed to play. The same should go for the starting quarterback.

Salisbury knows field hockey. The Sea Gulls of Salisbury University have won the past three Division III field hockey national championships. The team hasn???t skipped a beat this season, jumping out to an impressive 8-0 mark. I don???t know terribly much about field hockey, but it seems to me that outscoring your opponents 39-3 in the first eight games is slightly amazing.

Talk about job security. Marquette extended the contract of head men???s basketball coach Tom Crean through 2017. Crean has rejuvenated the Marquette program, and led the Golden Eagles to the 2003 Final Four behind the strong play of Dwayne Wade. Marquette held its own during its first year of play in the Big East and Crean is being rewarded for that performance.