Family Sues NCAA After Son Dies in Hammer Throw Accident

By Eugene Egdorf and Jim Hartle, of Shrader & Associates   The NCAA was founded in 1906 to improve safety in college sports. Since then, it has sat as supervisor and sponsor of college sports, from football to tennis to track & field. The NCAA has taken its supervisory role so far as to regulate the foods that colleges can give their players to eat.   In its more traditional supervisory role, the NCAA recognizes that field events involving projectiles—such as the hammer throw—pose