Southern Methodist University, a school based in Dallas, is the only program ever to receive the death penalty in college football. The Mustangs were hit with the harsh punishment in 1987 as a ...

Longtime SMU athletics director Rick Hart - who guided the Mustangs through an era of stark change in college sports, ...

Editor of United Methodist Insight says the lawsuit involving SMU and the United Methodist Church is the latest in a ...

Here's a look back at SMU receiving the "death penalty" in the 1980s as the Mustangs head up to Happy Valley to take on Penn State in the first round of the College Football Playoffs. The NCAA ...

Hartzell joins SMU after the 30-year presidency of R. Gerald Turner, who recovered the university from the NCAA’s “death penalty” and brought the Bush presidential library to Dallas.

Before the end of the decade, however, SMU was handed the death penalty by the NCAA for recruiting violations, and the 1987 and 1988 seasons were canceled. The epic fall led to SMU managing only ...

It may have come down to an ill-fated penalty. Finishing the year at 9-3 ... who believed they had strong claims to the CFP over 11-2 SMU. Ultimately, however, the presence of three such teams ...

was sports editor in Garland before moving to Dallas to cover everything from the final hurrah of the Southwest Conference to SMU after the death penalty. After joining the Houston Chronicle in ...