NCAA lets UA help homeless athletes

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – Alabama is being allowed to help athletes left homeless by a massive tornado.

Alabama compliance director Mike Ward says the NCAA granted Alabama status to provide impacted athletes with benefits not normally allowed.

Athletic department spokesman Doug Walker told The Birmingham News in a story Sunday that a couple of dozen Crimson Tide athletes
are homeless.

Friends are helping some of them and others are headed home with final exams canceled.

Walker says the university is working toward a long-term solution.

The NCAA has what’s referred to as the “Katrina waiver” dating back to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Alabama hasn’t officially received that waiver but the Southeastern Conference was talking with the NCAA by Thursday morning, allowing flexibility to immediately help athletes.
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Information from: The Birmingham News,
http://www.al.com/birminghamnews

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