Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics

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COMMISSION REPORTS

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Keeping Faith with the Student Athlete
The Knight Commission's Groundbreaking Report

A Call to Action
A Call to Action: Reconnecting College Sports and Higher Education

COMMISSION MEETINGS

PUBLISHED OP-EDS

Miami Herald
Feb. 4, 2007

Indianapolis Star
Apr. 2, 2006

COMMISSIONED RESEARCH AND POLLS

WHITE PAPERS

Athletics Recruiting and Academic Values: Enhancing Transparency, Spreading Risk and Improving Practice
University of Georgia Institute for Higher Education

Challenging the Myth
A Review of the Links Among College Athletic Success, Student Quality and Donations by Robert H. Frank

Executive Summary Division I-A Postseason History and Status

Division I-A Postseason History and Status
by John Sandbrook

MEMBERS

Co-Chairs

William English Kirwan
chancellor, University System of Maryland

R. Gerald Turner
president, Southern Methodist University

Chairman Emeritus

Thomas K. Hearn Jr.
president emeritus, Wake Forest University

Members

Val Ackerman
president, USA Basketball

Michael F. Adams
president, University of Georgia

William W. Asbury
Vice President Emeritus for Student Affairs, Pennsylvania State University

Henry S. Bienen
president, Northwestern University

Nick Buoniconti
spokesman, Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis

Hodding Carter III
University Professor of Leadership and Public Policy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Carol A. Cartwright
interim president, Kent State University

Anita L. DeFrantz
president, Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles

John J. DeGioia
president, Georgetown University

Leonard J. Elmore
ESPN analyst and senior counsel, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, LLP

Elson S. Floyd
president, University of Missouri System

Janet Hill
vice president, Alexander & Associates Inc.

Sarah Lowe
Corporate Legal Assistant at the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Andrea Fischer Newman
senior vice president-government affairs, Northwest Airlines

Jerry I. Porras
professor emeritus, Stanford University

Sonja Steptoe
Client Development Manager at O’Melveny & Myers LLP

Clifton R. Wharton Jr.
former chairman and CEO, TIAA-CREF

Judy Woodruff
broadcast journalist

Charles E. Young
President Emeritus, University of Florida and Chancellor Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles

Chris Zorich
Chairman of The Christopher Zorich Foundation

Member, Ex-Officio

Alberto Ibargüen
president and CEO, Knight Foundation

Founding Co-Chairs

Rev. Theodore A. Hesburgh, C.S.C.
president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, founding co-chair, 1989-2003

William C. Friday
president emeritus, University of North Carolina, founding co-chair, 1989-2005

Staff

Amy P. Perko
executive director

Leonard J. Elmore

Senior Counsel, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, LLP; Analyst, ESPN Sports

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Len Elmore is currently Senior Counsel for LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, LLP.  Previously, he served as the President of Pivot Productions, Inc. a New York-based media and advertising company.  He also has completed his sixth consecutive year as a college basketball analyst for ESPN.

Elmore also served as President and CEO of Test University (TestU), a leading provider of web-based, customized curriculum, student assessment and standardized test preparation solutions for middle and high school students.

In 1992, Elmore founded Precept Sports & Entertainment, Inc., a sports management and marketing company.  As the company’s President and Chief Executive Officer from 1992-96 he represented numerous National Basketball Association (NBA) first round draft picks, National Football League players and several Olympic athletes.

From 1985 to 1991 and prior to representing athletes with Precept, Mr. Elmore was a network television analyst for CBS, ESPN and JP Sports for NBA and NCAA basketball telecasts.

A noted authority on sports and sports law issues, Elmore has had numerous articles published on a variety of sports issues.  He is also the host of the award-winning UMTV cable television issues talk show, “The Global Village” and has appeared on numerous radio and television news and sports talk shows, including ESPN’s “The Sports Reporters.”

Elmore was an All-American basketball player at the University of Maryland, 1971-74, and a first round draft pick in both the American Basketball Association (ABA) and the NBA where he played professional basketball for ten years.

He served as an Assistant District Attorney for Kings County (Brooklyn) N.Y., from 1987 to 1990, where he managed and tried numerous misdemeanor and felony cases, including police misconduct. He subsequently entered private practice, specializing in criminal and civil litigation.

Elmore received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1987.  He is admitted to practice law in New York and the U.S. District Court of Maryland.  From 1994 to 1999, Mr. Elmore was a member of the Tourism Development Board for the State of Maryland where he represented the sports and entertainment industries.

Elmore serves as a director on the Board of 1 800 Flowers.com, the leading online and telephonic gift and flower retailer and a NASDAQ traded company.  He also serves on several non-profit boards including the University of Maryland at College Park Board of Trustees, where he is Marketing Committee Chair.  He also serves on the boards of The Sports Lawyers Association and The NBA Retired Players Association.

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