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AAC Commissioner Mike Aresco Touts Optimism As Conference Meetings Wrap05 / 23 / 13The talk around this week's American Athletic Conference meetings "was about the future, not the threat of realignment," according to Kyle Veazey of the Memphis COMMERCIAL APPEAL. AAC Commissioner Mike Aresco yesterday said of the meetings, "Nobody ever even slipped and said Big East. Everybody said... |
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BIG FOOTBALL CROWDS NOT LINING UP AT TERRAPIN STATION
Univ. of MD''s football ticket sales "will fall about $700,000 below budget projections," according to Paul McMullen of the Baltimore SUN. The school is currently averaging 28,374 for its football gam
BOSTON U. DROPS FOOTBALL AND INCREASES WOMEN'S BUDGET
Boston Univ. will discontinue its men''s football team after this season, according to Joe Burris of the BOSTON GLOBE. The cancelling of football "is part of an athletic restructuring plan that includ
Tags: Colleges
DOES U.T. FEAR THE FACT THAT TENNESSEE HAS STRUCK OIL?
ESPN''s Gene Wojciechowski reports that "only one team truly scares [the Univ. of] Tennessee, and it isn''t Florida. It''s the NFL''s Tennessee Oilers, a marketing nightmare this year but a future thr
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NEW VENTURE CMA WILL TRY TO KEEP AHEAD WITH THEIR JONES
The Collegiate Licensing Company (CLC) and Host Communications (HCI) have formed the new joint venture, Collegiate Marketing Associates (CMA). The Dallas-based company will provide marketing services
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K.C. STAR TAKES EXTENSIVE LOOK INTO LIFE AT THE NCAA
This week, the K.C. STAR runs a six-part investigative study on the NCAA. In introducing "Money Games," STAR editor Mark Zeiman wrote the paper''s "intention in studying the NCAA was to exhaustively e
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SWEET LIBERTY: EQUITABLE/AXA SIGN THREE-YEAR BOWL DEAL
The Equitable Companies Inc. and AXA have become the first-ever corporate title sponsor of the Liberty Bowl. This year''s AXA/Equitable Liberty Bowl will be aired on ESPN on New Year''s Eve. The game
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FIESTA BOWL HOPES TO TURN COPPER INTO SPONSORSHIP GOLD
In an "unprecedented move that both sides admit is a gamble," the Fiesta Bowl has reached a tentative agreement to acquire the Tucson-based Copper Bowl, according to Kent Somers of the ARIZONA REPUBLI
ARIZONA STATE/NIKE SHOE DOESN'T FIT REEBOK'S MAJERUS
Rick Majerus has turned down an offer to coach at Arizona State University (ASU) "largely because of a difference in shoe-contract size -- the gap between Majerus'' Reebok deal at Utah and what he wou
HOST MARRIOTT BECOMES NCAA PARTNER THROUGH AMEX UNDERWRITING
Host Marriott is "close to signing as official sponsor of the NCAA, a million-dollar a year deal that''s actually being paid" for by fellow NCAA sponsor AmEx, according to Terry Lefton of BRANDWEEK. A
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ONE MORE YEAR AND NCAA ATHLETES CAN GO OUT ON THE JOB MARKET
The NCAA Div. I Board of Dir have delayed the implementation of Proposition 62, which would allow student- athletes to work and earn money during the school year. It will now go into effect August 1,
