Remember how much fun it was last year watching the shakeup of the college conferences? The anticipation of which teams would or wouldn’t move, and to where? The speculation on when it would all end? The talk of superconferences completely reshaping the landscape of major college football? Well, EA Sports does, which is why the upcoming edition of NCAA Football… Read more »
Brendan is probably too busy crying in a corner somewhere to post this update, so it’s left up to me to break the news that his favorite GOP Presidential candidate, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, has decided against a 2012 Presidential run. Reportedly, his wife and children were not in favor of the idea. No word on whether Daniels was simply… Read more »
A group of Republican Senators and Representatives are putting forward an ammendment to the Constituion that would grant states the ability to veto federal laws. Thats right, the self proclaimed “Party of Lincoln”, founded to defend the Union and the federal government vs. the states rights advocated by southern states which eventually seceded and formed the confederacy is attempting to… Read more »
Earlier today the Pac-12 officially announced the media deal that was widely reported yesterday. In addition to confirming that ESPN and Fox will co-own the rights it confirmed the formation of a Pac-12 network with the creation of Pac-12 Media Enterprises. This will encompass both a television network (ala the Big Ten Network) and a digital network (ala ESPN3.com). The… Read more »
Good news everyone! The Pac-12 media rights deal is done, and the conference looks to have hit the jackpot! Expected to be officially announced soon, the deal will reportedly bring in over $225 million annually for the next 12 years, for a total of approximately… THREE BILLION DOLLARS!!! That’s a major upgrade from the current deal, worth only $45 million… Read more »
The Carolina Panthers chose Auburn QB Cam Newton with the number one pick of the 2011 NFL draft. Life should be much simpler for Newton now that he is in a league where getting paid to come play for a team isn’t a major rules violation. More draft coverage via the NFL Draft page.
So David Stern, idiot-in-chief Commisioner of the NBA, in his infiinte wisdom, has decided that Clay Bennett, who orchestrated the wholesale theft of the Sonic’s from Seattle to move them to his beloved Oklahoma City, is exactly the right person to be put in charge of the NBA’s relocation commitee. Stern also announced the following appointments to other positions: The… Read more »
Despite the University of Utah being invited up to the big leagues the Attorney General of the Mormon Beehive state still wants the BCS disbanded under anti-trust laws. It’s no surprise to anyone that the BCS is a system of big and small. The auto-qualifying conferences certainly derive more benefit from the system, but its also true that some of… Read more »
The Stanford Daily put together a great article outlining one of the biggest non-playoff related problems with the BCS bowls*. Schools are required to sell a given number of tickets, and any unsold tickets must be paid for by the school. The schools have no ability to decide how many tickets they want to sell; that decision is up to… Read more »
MSNBC talk-show host Keith Olbermann unexpectedly announced the end of his show Countdown today. The eight-year-long show was the highest-rated on MSNBC. Olbermann, who gained fame as a host of Sports Center on ESPN, started the show as a humorous look at the news, but morphed into a vocal liberal critic in the later half of the Bush presidency. (Hat… Read more »
