Ex-Bay Area athlete languishes in limbo over eligibility battle with NCAA

A parent and longtime collegiate administrator threatened the NCAA with a lawsuit over the “mental stress” the institution and its decisions have put on his son, a former basketball player at American Canyon High School who was ruled ineligible to play this fall as a graduate transfer at the University of Southern Mississippi.

“I just think if this went to court, lay people would be like, ‘Oh, you’ve got to be kidding me,'” said John Wade II, the athletic director at Contra Costa College and the father of John Wade III...