NCAA Compromises on Sunday Games

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has fashioned a compromise aimed at defusing a controversy over playing championship games on Sundays.

At a Chicago meeting Tuesday, the NCAA’s Division I board approved legislation giving schools with policies against competing on a particular day for religious reasons an opportunity for accommodation.

Last April, the NCAA division--which includes more than 300 of the largest colleges and universities--had eliminated a 35-year-old rule accommodating schools opposed to playing championship games on Sundays.