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It just didn’t seem right that Ashlee Crewe had to forfeit her college graduation to join teammates in Georgia this weekend for the NCAA softball tournament. So in front of family and friends, Crewe received her diploma Wednesday evening from ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ President Leo M. Lambert in a ceremony honoring the only senior on the Southern Conference championship team.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ junior Lauren Ross, a leisure and sport management major, and associate professor Tony Weaver presented a poster titled “A Current Examination of the Historically Black Colleges and University Division I Athletic Directors” at the 2010 Scholarly Conference on College Sport in Chapel Hill, N.C., held from April 21-23.

A fundraiser to benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Burlington and the Multiple Sclerosis Society caught the attention of local media over the weekend, with the Times-News in Burlington and WFMY News 2 in Greensboro covering the event organized by students in a Leisure and Sport Management course.

In more than two decades covering professional baseball, ESPN senior analyst Buster Olney has seen some of the game's most poignant moments. He shared insights from his career and offered advice to future sports journalists on April 14 as ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's Leisure and Sport Management Society Career Spotlight Speaker.

In an online story posted March 31, the Chronicle of Higher Education cited work by assistant professor Tony Weaver on the recent trend of colleges and universities paying their new basketball coaches higher salaries than the men who were replaced.

Tony Weaver, assistant professor in the Department of Leisure and Sport Management, presented to members of the Lumina Foundation last week in Indianapolis. The presentation, "The Cost of College Athletics," examined current trends in Division I athletic spending.

In early March, Anne Marx, assistant professor of leisure and sport management co-presented a paper titled "Teaching Initiatives: Digital Video Technology Applications for Recreation and Sport Law Classes" at the Annual Conference on Sport, Physical Education, Recreation and Law in Albuquerque, N.M.