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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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Oklahoma expectations high
The campaign slogan sums it up in two simple words: Great Expectations. And with one of the most recognized winning traditions in intercollegiate athletics already in hand, the University of Oklahoma is banking on its current five-year fund-raising crusade to help transform those expectations ...
Tags: Colleges, Special Report
Attendance at Amateur Sporting Events
F rom January 1999 through November 2000, ESPN Sports Poll, a service of TNS Intersearch, surveyed more than 2,000 fans a month. This chart shows the propensity of those fans to attend a local amateur sports event at least twice a month. To read: 22.3 percent of Hispanic MLB fan ...
Tags: Baseball, Basketball, Boxing, Colleges, ESPN, Football, Golf, Hockey, MLB, Motorsports, NBA, NFL, NHL, Soccer, Tennis, The Tracker
New College Arena Construction
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Tags: Colleges, Comcast Corp., Ellerbe Becket, PepsiCo, Special Report
FOR THE RECORD
MARKETING NEWS MARKETING ANDLICENSING AGREEMENTS The Antigua Group Inc. was named a sideline licensee for the XFL . Antigua will produce XFL logoed sportswear for the sidelines crew, including coaches and managers. The company will also provide XFL team apparel to depar ...
Tags: AHL, Basketball, Boxing, Buick, Colleges, Dreams Inc., Football, For the Record, Golf, Hockey, Pittsburgh Pirates, Pro Image, Rawlings Sporting Goods Co., Raymond James Financial Inc., Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Woolf Associates Inc., XFL
COAST TO COAST
BALTIMORE Marathon plan to be revealed Organizers of the resurrected Baltimore Marathon plan to introduce their sponsors and unveil the race's course next month. Completing the plans has taken a back seat to work related to the Baltimore Ravens' playoff run and t ...
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Bottom-line challenges top the demands on today's Ads
M ichael Cleary may never have worked in a university athletic department, but he has worked in collegiate sports for four decades. He's held positions at the NCAA and the NAIA and for the last 35 years has been executive director of the National Association of Collegiate Director ...
Tags: Boxing, Colleges, NCAA, Special Report
Central Florida finances, attendance grow with reputation
At the University of Central Florida, it's all about Daunte Culpepper, even though he's been out of college for two years and is better known as the Minnesota Vikings' starting quarterback than as UCF's first superstar. The football team moved into Division I-A in 1996, and with Culpeppe ...
Tags: Colleges, Special Report
Conference signs deal with Host
The Division I-AA Gateway Football Conference, in an attempt to increase conference revenue, has agreed to a deal with Host Communications Inc. to market its syndicated football package. Under terms of the partnership, Host will develop a marketing package and sell ads for the conference's ...
Tags: Colleges, Host Communications Inc., State Farm Insurance Cos., This Week's Issue
Having listened, Knight panel will talk
The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics heard from representatives of shoe companies, major television networks and individuals involved in pending anti-gambling legislation last week to assess the influence of money on college sports. Individuals who spoke at the meeting, held ...
Tags: ABC, Adidas, CBS Broadcasting Inc., Colleges, ESPN, NCAA, Oakland Athletics, This Week's Issue
Texas Tech plans future after sanctions
The past and the future seem to be at odds here. It has been about 30 months since the NCAA tossed its net over Texas Tech University, sanctioning the school for violations that involved more than 80 athletes in nine different sports. Athletic administrators figure the ordeal cost them a ...
Tags: Colleges, NCAA, Special Report
