National Center for Sports Safety funds axed from ASU budget - Brian Lyman, Montgomery Advertiser

House Ways and Means Committee chairman Bill Poole, R-Tuscaloosa, said funding for the National Center for Sports Safety was cut in the compromise. Funding for the National Center for Sports Safety, named in an investigation of Alabama State University finances last fall, was cut under a compromise education budget approved in conference committee Thursday. House Ways and Means Committee chairman Bill Poole, R-Tuscaloosa, said the funding was cut amid negotiations Thursday. The money was removed by Gov. Robert Bentley in his initial budget proposal in January, and sustained by the Senate. http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20140321/NEWS02/303210020/National-Center-Sports-Safety-funds-axed-from-ASU-budget?nclick_check=1