Posted by ccv
on May 22, 2012
in baseball, Business and Sports, College baseball, ESPN, John Cohen, Mississippi State
MSU’s Frazier receives Team USA invitation
STARKVILLE — Adam Frazier’s summer plans are on hold.
The Mississippi State infielder was invited to join the Team USA National Collegiate Team last week, though he was not alerted until the moment he walked off the field following MSU’s three-game sweep of then-No. 5 Kentucky on Saturday.
“It’s nothing I ever expected, for sure,” Frazier said. “I’m excited about going up and playing Cape Cod this summer and when he told me that, it blew my mind. I’m really excited about it. To wear that across my chest is a huge honor.”
read more: clarionledger.com
Posted by ccv
on May 22, 2012
in Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, BCS, Business and Sports, College football, ESPN, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mike Slive, Mississippi State, Ole Miss
The SEC is looking to start its own network
Want to know why a conference that is already the most powerful college football conference in the country adds two new schools it doesn’t necessarily need? It does so because now the SEC can renegotiate its television contracts with both CBS and ESPN, the two networks that own the rights to SEC football games in the fall.
As you’d expect, given the television deals that have gone to the Pac-12 and the Big 12 in the last year, the SEC will be looking for more money from both ESPN and CBS for the right to broadcast games, though that’s not the end goal here.
According to Sports Business Daily(subscription), the SEC is once again looking into the idea of starting its own SEC Network, much like the Big Ten currently has.
read more: cbssports.com
Posted by ccv
on May 22, 2012
in ACC, BCS, Big 12, Big East, Business and Sports, College football, conference expansion, ESPN, Notre Dame
Notre Dame has ‘contingency plans’ if it leaves Big East
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Notre Dame basketball coach Mike Brey said the Fighting Irish’s objective is to remain in the Big East, but admitted the school has “contingency plans” if it needs to join another conference.
“I know right now we’re focused 100 percent on [rebuilding the Big East] but there’s no question contingency plans [about joining another conference] on those pay grades higher than me have been discussed and will be discussed,” Brey told CBSSports.com at Monday’s Big East spring meetings.
When Notre Dame joined the Big East in all sports except football in 1995, the Big East consisted of 13 basketball members: Notre Dame, Boston College, UConn, Georgetown, Providence, St. John’s, Seton Hall, Syracuse, Villanova, Pittsburgh, Miami, Rutgers and West Virginia.
read more: cbssports.com
Posted by ccv
on May 22, 2012
in Business and Sports, ESPN, fanaticism, MLB
Jose Canseco’s former neighbor, Alexander Lowrey, testifies Roger Clemens was at infamous 1998 barbecue and posed for pictureThe judge presiding over Roger Clemens’ perjury trial gave prosecutors a big victory on Monday when he ruled that Brian McNamee, the government’s chief witness, could tell jurors that he gave human growth hormone to Andy Pettitte, Mike Stanton and Chuck Knoblauch.
But the biggest name that emerged in court didn’t belong to an ex- or current Yankee, but to a one-time neighbor of Jose Canseco’s.
Alexander Lowrey, a former college baseball player, testified that he met and posed for photos with the pitcher at the now-infamous 1998 barbecue at the slugger’s South Florida home.
Read more: nydailynews.com
Posted by ccv
on May 21, 2012
in ACC, BCS, Business and Sports, College football, conference expansion, ESPN, SEC
Big 12, SEC champs to play in bowl
The Big 12 and the Southeastern conferences have announced a deal that will pit their football regular-season champions against each other in a New Year’s Day bowl game for five years beginning in 2014, positioning themselves for the expected switch to a four-team playoff.
In fact, SEC commissioner Mike Slive all but said that scenario is coming in Friday’s announcement of the agreement between two of the most successful BCS conferences.
read more: espn.com
Posted by ccv
on May 21, 2012
in ACC, Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, BCS, Big 12, Business and Sports, College football, conference expansion, ESPN, Florida, Georgia, Jim Delaney, Mississippi State, Mizzou
New bowl game means football Final Four is coming
In the ever-changing world of college conference realignment, the calm never seems to last very long. Blink, and the paradigm shifts. What appears to be a condemned disaster area one moment can make a miraculous turnaround in a matter of months.
This is the biggest, craziest high-stakes game of musical chairs the college sports world has ever seen. For proof of that, who could have imagined 12 months ago that the creation of a Southeastern Conference-Big 12 bowl game to rival the prestigious Rose Bowl could not only signal that a legitimate football playoff is on the way, but that the ripple effect would also be wildly beneficial to both Mizzou football and St. Louis University basketball?
Read more: stltoday.com
Posted by ccv
on May 21, 2012
in ACC, Alabama, Big 12, College football, ESPN, Jim Delaney, LSU, SEC
SEC, Big 12 agree to bowl matchup; champs will play if not in playoff
With the anticipated arrival of a four-team playoff to determine the national championship in 2014, college football is getting ready to enter a new world order.
The SEC and the Big 12 staked out a big chunk of real estate in that world on Friday by announcing a five-year agreement for their champions to meet in a Jan. 1 bowl game that will be determined at a later date. The first game will be Jan. 1, 2015.
If one or both of the champions are in the four-team playoff, then “another deserving team” from those conferences would get the slot.
In the 14 years of the BCS, either the SEC or the Big 12 champion has been in the title game 11 times. They have met twice for the BCS title — after the 2008 (Florida-Oklahoma) and 2009 (Alabama-Texas) seasons.
read more: cbssports.com
Posted by ccv
on May 17, 2012
in ACC, BCS, Big 12, Big Ten, Business and Sports, Clay Travis, College football, conference expansion, ESPN, NCAA, Pac-12, SEC
COLLEGE FOOTBALL NEEDS A COMMISSIONER
College football is the most nakedly self-interested of all the sports we love.
That’s why it’s failings are the most human, the most susceptible to special interest capture, the least logical, a banana football republic.
Most sports have a common interest that unites them in pursuit of a common pot of championship gold, college football does not.
read more: outkickthecoverage.com
Posted by ccv
on May 17, 2012
in Alabama, BCS, Business and Sports, College football, ESPN, fanaticism, Lane Kiffin, USC Trojans
USC paid Lane Kiffin, Monte Kiffin combined $3.9M in 2010
The University of Southern California paid head football coach Lane Kiffin $2.4 million in 2010 and paid his father, assistant head coach Monte Kiffin, more than $1.5 million, according to the school’s new federal tax return.
The return, obtained Wednesday by USA TODAY Sports, means Monte Kiffin was — and likely remains — the nation’s highest-paid college football assistant coach
read more: usatoday.com
Posted by ccv
on May 17, 2012
in Business and Sports, ESPN, fanaticism, MLB, Moneyball
2013 All-Star Game marks latest turning point as Mets move on from Madoff scandal
NEW YORK — It had been months since Fred Wilpon last was with his longtime friend Bud Selig. The previous occasion was for thesettlement that finally detached the Mets’ from the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme. It was perhaps, in retrospect, a turning point for a Mets franchise mired in the epic scandal.
Joined by his son, Jeff, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Mr. Met, the Mets owner and Major League Baseball’s commissioner were together again today at City Hall in Lower Manhattan to mark another celebratory occasion for the Mets. Selig officially announced that Citi Field will host the 2013 All-Star Game.
read more: nj.com
