The year was 1894.

The Ivy League has announced its football programs will compete in the FCS playoffs beginning next season.

Columbia University canceled in-person classes and police arrested dozens of students at New York University and Yale as tensions over Israel's war with Hamas continue to grow on U.S. college campuses.

For this weekend, the University of Idaho marching band is calling itself the “Van-Dogs Marching Band.”.

John Poulakidas scored 28 points, Samson Aletan made a key block during a wild scramble in the final seconds, and 13th-seeded Yale beat No. 4 seed Auburn 78-76 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

The women’s NCAA Tournament field is set and now the fun begins, with 64 teams trying to win the national championship.

Another year without a perfect NCAA Tournament bracket.

Chiwetel Ejiofor had read Jeff Hobbs’ “The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace” years before Antoine Fuqua asked if he might consider writing and directing an adaptation.

There’s one college football conference sitting out the reshuffling going on among its big-money brethren: The Ivy League will start the season with the same eight members it has had since it formed in 1956.

Before turning into a politician and working his way up to his current role as Florida’s governor, DeSantis was an accomplished baseball player.

Alex Lyon’s goaltending resume is no joke.

New Mexico State has fired basketball coach Greg Heiar in the wake of hazing allegations on the team that shut down the program for the rest of the season.

The chancellor at New Mexico State says players on the basketball team were interviewed by school personnel about an alleged hazing incident that led to the suspension of the program.

New Mexico State has suspended operations of its men’s basketball program placed its coaching staff on paid administrative leave due to allegations unrelated to a fatal shooting last year.

A new documentary looks into the sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Jaden Ivey raced his way to 22 points and Zach Edey controlled the action inside, helping Purdue overpower Yale for a 78-56 victory in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

University of Pennsylvania transgender swimmer Lia Thomas won her lone individual matchup of the week with Yale's Iszac Henig at the Ivy League championship, edging Henig to win the 100-meter freestyle.

Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham say it'd be good if the person named to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer doesn’t have an Ivy League degree.

Since coming under federal scrutiny, the 12 schools disclosed a combined $6.5 billion in foreign funding that was previously unreported, the department said. Yale said it failed to submit foreign funding reports for the years 2014 to 2017 but later corrected the omission. It's not unusual for U.S. colleges to accept foreign funding for research projects or exchange programs, but federal reporting requirements have long been treated as an honor system. That began to change last year, however, after a bipartisan report in Congress raised alarms about colleges’ ties with China. In response to that finding, DeVos began ordering broader investigations into universities' foreign funding.

The Ivy League has canceled all fall sports because of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)The Ivy League on Wednesday became the first Division I conference to say it will not play sports this fall because of the coronavirus pandemic, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press. The league left open the possibility of moving some seasons to the spring if the outbreak is better controlled by then. The decision was described to the AP by a person speaking on the condition of anonymity in advance of the official announcement. The Ivy decision affects not just football but everything before Jan. 1, including soccer, field hockey, volleyball and cross country, as well as the nonconference portion of the basketball season.

Connecticut (Hartford Business Journal) - The Yale University School Of Medicine is teaming with a Portland-based medical marijuana grower to conduct the first state-approved study of medical marijuana's impact on stress and mental health. Other conditions may also be examined in the study including post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, and opioid-replacement, according to Yale. Yale said the "groundbreaking" clinical study is the first approved by the state Department of Consumer Protection's (DCP) medical marijuana research program to study stress and mental-health related issues. The new study surfaces just weeks after state lawmakers added several new conditions to Connecticut's medical marijuana program. Meantime, there are currently 37,927 patients in the medical marijuana program, 1,196 certifying physicians, 15 dispensaries and four producers in Connecticut, according to DCP.

"I started reading it -- and just tears," said Kim Hershman, who'd studied a year ahead of Pleasants at Yale. Hershman -- escorted by two Yale alums, including her significant other -- began asking homeless people in the area if they knew where Pleasants camped out. Even weeks after leaving the streets, Pleasants was still acclimating. Making plans to get sober and share his storyPleasants checked into a rehab facility Friday in Los Angeles' Tarzana neighborhood, Hershman told CNN. People who used to help homeless residents, he said, ended up sitting beside "us" on the streets.