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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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Coast To Coast
ANN ARBOR, MICH. Football ticket-price goal: $5M The University of Michigan hopes to raise a reported $5 million from a ticket-price increase for football games this fall. Season-ticket prices will incre ...
Tags: Amateur Sports, Baseball, Basketball, Coast to Coast, Colleges, Football, Golf, Hockey, Motorsports, Soccer
Facilities Briefs
Big 12 pays $12 each The Big 12 Conference, which paid $50,000 to use Kemper Arena and Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City for its men's and women's tournaments in the first three years of the conference's existence, now pays just $12 for ...
NBC To Split From Quokka?
Q uokka Sports' efforts to stay afloat suffered another blow March 14 when NBC and the Salt Lake Organizing Committee forced it to sign an agreement that would dissolve the NBC/Quokka joint venture on May 1 if Quokka has not arranged a sale ...
Sports Profile: San Antonio
POPULATION: 1,564,949 (27th-ranked metropolitan statistical area) NO. OF HOTELS/ROOMS; RATE*: 215/28,709; $84.98 MAJOR CORPORATIONS: SBC Communications, Ultramar Diamond Shamrock, USAA, Valero Energy, Tesoro Petro ...
Tags: Basketball, Colleges, Golf, Hockey, Soccer, The Tracker
Zephyr Company Profiled
If you want a better understanding of what went wrong with the licensed-product industry, there are two good places to look. The first is the files of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware, which detail the demise of Starter Corp., Pro Player Inc. and Logo Athletic Inc. after those compani ...
Tags: Baseball, Basketball, Colleges, Football, Hockey, This Week's Issue
Nelligan Adds Providence
Nelligan Sports Marketing Inc. completed a seven-year agreement for exclusive multimedia rights to Providence College's athletic department. The deal, which is scheduled to be announced this week, includes rights to market signs and banners for Providence's athletic venues, advertising inven ...
Tags: Colleges, This Week's Issue
TV Briefs
TV BRIEFS Univision affiliate adds show Univision affiliate KUVN-TV in Dallas has started a weekly Spanish sports program. The 15-minute program airs at 10:15 p.m. Sundays. 90210er calling IRL ...
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Buffalo Arena Gets Infusion
The Sports Arena at NCAA Division III Buffalo State College has found a secondary niche as a home to high schools. "For the first time since we opened the facility [in 1991], it has been properly used," said Buffalo State athletic director Jerry Boyes. In the past few weeks, thousands of ...
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Corporate Sports Travel
A re you an executive of a company that uses sporting events as a vehicle to entertain important clients or to reward key employees? If so, you may have organized excursions to major events like the Super Bowl, college basketball's Final Four, the Masters golf tournament or the Ol ...
Duke Boosts Scholarship Fund
D uke University will culminate its yearlong celebration of women's sports next month with the Duke Women's Athletics Celebration Weekend, to be held April 6-8. The event will be part celebration and part fund-raiser for Duke's women's scholarship endow ...
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