The death penalty badly damaged that brand. The pay-for-play scandal went all the way to the office of the late Texas Gov.

The death penalty badly damaged that brand. The pay-for-play scandal went all the way to the office of the late Texas Gov. Bill Clements, an SMU alum who led the trustees during the time the NCAA ...

SMU is making a quarterback change just three games into the season as Kevin Jennings will take over the starting job from ...

Recruiting violations — including paying athletes to commit to SMU — led the school to receive the death penalty from the NCAA in 1987, which barred the Mustangs from competing for a year.

DALLAS — SMU athletic director Rick Hart gets goosebumps pretty easily these days. Whether it's reflecting on the nearly year-old celebration of getting into the Atlantic Coast Conference or ...

SMU plays its first football game as an ACC member, completing a full-circle odyssey in and out and back into the power-conference elite. Left for dead by a football “death penalty” in the ...

SMU is ready to move on from the painful aftermath of the so-called death penalty as the Dallas school's debut in the Atlantic Coast Conference draws near.

DALLAS — SMU athletic director Rick Hart gets goosebumps pretty easily these days. Whether it's reflecting on the nearly year-old celebration of getting into the Atlantic Coast Conference or ...