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The Earthquakes drew 10,074 fans for yesterday's preseason game against the Galaxy, the soft opening of the Quakes' Avaya Stadium (S.F. CHRONICLE, 3/1).

The Tampa Bay Times and USF "have signed a three-year agreement in which the newspaper will be the sole print media company to sponsor both athletic and academic events" at the school (TAMPA BAY TIMES, 2/28).

Mortenson Construction Co. "has been picked to be the construction manager for the University of Minnesota's new 340,000-square-foot Athletics Village" (BIZJOURNALS.com, 2/27).

China-based consumer electronics company Hisense yesterday morning confirmed that it will sponsor Joe Gibbs Racing driver Denny Hamlin in two '15 Xfinity Series races -- at Bristol and Richmond -- plus entitle the Xfinity race at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 23 (Hisense).

Team Extreme's No. 44 Sprint Cup car was "returned to its NASCAR shop in North Carolina on Saturday after it was recovered along a remote road in suburban Atlanta, apparently abandoned by the thieves who stole it from a hotel parking lot" on Friday (AP, 2/28).

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