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John Swofford Says ACC Hopes To "Protect" Member Schools Financially05 / 17 / 13ACC Commissioner John Swofford at the end of the conference’s spring meetings on Thursday said that he “wanted to ‘protect’ his member schools from experiencing the types of financial loses that FSU saw in December,” according to Coley Harvey of the ORLANDO SENTINEL. FS... Tags: Colleges |
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Details Emerge On BCS Selection Committee
BCS Exec Dir Bill Hancock said that the selection committee for college football's playoff would "consist of between 14-20 members, including at least one individual representing each of the 10 FBS conferences," according to Brett McMurphy of ESPN.com. The committee will "resemble the NCAA men's bas ...
O'Bannon Suit A "Stiff" Challenge To NCAA
Perhaps the "greatest legal threat to the NCAA is the class action suit filed" by former UCLA F Ed O'Bannon, according to Alexander Wolff of SI. The case has been "picking up plaintiffs" including Basketball HOFers Bill Russell and Oscar Robertson, and O'Bannon's lawyers have "successfully added cur ...
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Cubs, Northwestern Agree To Bring NU To Wrigley
The Cubs and Northwestern Univ. yesterday announced a "landmark, five-year marketing agreement" that will "bring Northwestern football back to Wrigley Field five times in the coming years," according to Danny Ecker of CRAIN'S CHICAGO BUSINESS. The dates of the games still are "to be determined based ...
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SEC, Big 12 Discuss Football Scheduling Partnership
SEC Exec Associate Commissioner Mark Womack on Wednesday said that the conference has "engaged in limited dialogue with the Big 12 about a partnership that includes regular-season football scheduling," according to Jon Solomon of the BIRMINGHAM NEWS. Womack: "That's a situation we would ke ...
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Judge Does Not End O'Bannon Case
The attorney representing former UCLA basketball player Ed O'Bannon and other former collegiate athletes in an antitrust lawsuit over commercialized use of college athletes’ names and likenesses claimed a "significant victory" yesterday when a California federal judge "denied the NCAA's early ...
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Big 12 ADs Support ACC Alliance
Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby yesterday said that league ADs "expressed unanimous support for exploring a scheduling and marketing alliance with the ACC and other conferences during a Monday meeting but did not close the door on the possibility of future expansion," according to Jimmy Burch of the ...
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Big 12 Exploring Alliance With ACC
Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby on Friday said that the league is "actively exploring a possible alliance with the Atlantic Coast Conference and two other unspecified leagues for the purposes of scheduling, marketing and possibly even television partnerships," according to Kirk Bohls of the AUSTIN A ...
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Ohio State To Designate "Premier" Football Games
Tickets for Ohio State Univ.'s best home football games are "likely to become much more expensive," as prices will "rise much more than the 13 percent that so-called non-premier tickets are expected to go up," according to Bill Rabinowitz of the COLUMBUS DISPATCH. The OSU Athletic Council tomorrow w ...
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MWC Adds Football Championship Game
The Mountain West Conference beginning this year will "split into two six-team divisions for football and play a conference championship game," according to Brent Briggeman of the Colorado Springs GAZETTE. The winners from each division, to be called "Mountain" and "West," will meet in a conference ...
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NCAA BOD Votes In Favor Of Deregulation
The NCAA Div. I BOD voted Saturday “in favor of deregulation that will affect a wide swath of the rulebook for all sports, including getting rid of a ban on text messages from coaches to recruits,” according to Jon Fogg of the Baltimore SUN. Twenty-five of 26 proposals recommended last m ...
