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New bid format for NCAA sites05 / 20 / 13The NCAA has completed an overhaul of the bid process for 84 of its championships across all three divisions, including the Final Four, and will award close to 500 sites this year. It’s easily the largest bid process in the history of college sports’ governing body, and the selections... Tags: Colleges |
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USC, broadcaster near choice in hunt for football play-by-play vo ...
T he new Sporting News Radio affiliate in Los Angeles, KMPC-AM, is culling the field and expects to name a play-by-play announcer for University of Southern California football in the next few weeks. (The university and station recently signed a ...
Tags: Colleges, Football, Fox, This Week's Issue
Once-hot Web hits a cool spell
For the first time since the Internet boom began, the number of monthly unique visitors to espn.com dropped when compared with the same month from the previous year. Those statistics from May, coupled with springtime declines in viewers at sports-line.com, cnns ...
Tags: Baseball, Basketball, Colleges, E-Sports, Football, MLB, NBA, NFL
Conference signs Sony
Sony Electronics Inc., a division of Sony Corporation of America, has struck a sponsorship deal with the Southern Conference to be its technology solutions provider. The deal, which was brokered by Host Communications Inc., the Southern Conference's marketing partner, is the first in a new s ...
Without TV deal, San Francisco's new bowl, conference deals in li ...
The lack of a TV contract threatens to tackle San Francisco's new college football game six months before kickoff. It's not only the absence of a contract on its own that could straight-arm backers of the former Aloha Bowl, which in April was approved by the NCA ...
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The List
View the list of NCAA schools with four or more former students in the NBA last season .
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Coast to Coast
ATLANTA ACC tourney valued at $31M The 2001 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball tournament had an economic impact on Georgia of more than $31.1 million, according to the Atlanta Sports Council. " ...
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UVA committees reject task force's advice to tier funding, cut sp ...
T wo committees of the University of Virginia's Board of Visitors have more or less struck down a university task force recommendation to ensure the athletic department's financial security by tiering UVA sports funding or eliminating sports. ...
Tags: Colleges, ESPN, Micron Electronics Inc., This Week's Issue, Time Warner
ESPN, Monarch packaging C-USA sports events for syndication sales
Conference USA has reached an agreement with ESPN Regional and Monarch Productions to produce and syndicate an 18-event package of games for the newly created Conference USA Television Network. Under the agreement, ESPN and Monarch will jointly produce the games while Monarch, in conjuncti ...
Tags: Colleges, ESPN, This Week's Issue, USA Sports
Evening telecasts push Air Force to install permanent stadium lig ...
Athletic officials at the Air Force Academy finally have given the word: Let there be lights. Almost as an afterthought to last week's announcement by Brad De-Austin, deputy athletic director, that the academy hopes to raise $5 million for a new baseball stadium and other projects, school ...
Tags: ABC, Atlanta Falcons, Colleges, Falk Associates Management Enterprises, This Week's Issue
For The Record
MARKETING NEWS MARKETING AND LICENSING Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. and Callaway Golf Co. agreed to limited mutual license agreements on the use of Sumitomo's patented technology on metal woods and Callaway's paten ...
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