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May 5

NEWS: Oklahoma's SoonerVision content, which includes one live football game, the spring football game and more than 100 live events, is moving to ESPN+. It will be the most expansive ESPN+ deal for one school. More in Morning Buzz.

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Dec 15

NEWS: Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker is new NCAA President. The story behind how he became a candidate.

NCAA names Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker as new president

The NCAA has named Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker as its new president, replacing Mark Emmert effective March 1.

Good news for

fans. ... No more Stadium, NFL Network, Facebook, endless channel surfing to find the game. ... New TV deal puts CUSA games on CBS Sports Net, ESPN.

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Nov 9

NEWS: @ConferenceUSA will play its October football games during midweek evenings, starting next season. Similar to how @MACSports plays all of its November games during the week now. Part of a new 5-year TV deal between Conf USA, CBS Sports Net and ESPN. sportsbusinessjournal.com/SB-Blogs/Break

NEWS:

will play its October football games during midweek evenings, starting next season. Similar to how

@MACSports

plays all of its November games during the week now. Part of a new 5-year TV deal between Conf USA, CBS Sports Net and ESPN. sportsbusinessjournal.com/SB-Blogs/Break

Nov 9

The most incredible college football game I covered n person.

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Nov 9

November 9, 2002: The Bluegrass Miracle. LSU 33 Kentucky 30.

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Nov 2

Lost in all the football chatter is that ESPN gets the first 20 picks of men’s basketball games each season in the Big 12’s new media rights deal (as reported in last night’s SBJ College). The Gonzaga news suddenly makes that a lot more relevant.

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Pete Thamel

@PeteThamel

Nov 2

Sources:Gonzaga AD Chris Standiford met with Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark in person in Texas last week about Gonzaga potentially joining the Big 12. This is part of broader discussions that have unfolded in recent weeks between the Big 12 and Gonzaga. espn.com/mens-college-b

Oct 30

BREAKING: The

@Big12Conference

has reached a new six-year media rights agreement with ESPN and Fox worth a total of $2.28B, an average of $380M per year. Read more from

: sbjsbd.biz/3sL0UUM

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Oct 30

The Big 12's deal with ESPN and Fox Sports is done. SBJ has all the details. My story with

: sportsbusinessjournal.com/SB-Blogs/Break

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this morning:

's thriller over

on Saturday made UT the top-selling team on

@Fanatics

this weekend. Top 5 NCAA products for Fanatics this weekend all were from UT. Merch sales up 100% week over week. Best-selling item was this shirt:

Oct 17

Big 12 brings on Translation agency to build hipper, cooler fan base and brand.

Big 12 brings on Translation to help build more contemporary brand

The Big 12 has hired creative agency Translation to help the conference build a national, contemporary brand as it seeks a younger, more diverse fan base.

Oct 14

New in SBJ: NCAA explores adding summer basketball games. Could launch as soon as 2023.

NCAA explores expanding college basketball with limited summer schedule

The NCAA and college leaders are exploring a short schedule of summer exhibition basketball games — likely two to four games — that would enable schools to play each other and fill a void when...

Oct 14

Batt was a 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 winner. His simple-but-elegant advice for fundraisers: Don't be the first one to speak after making the ask. Give the other person a chance to respond first.

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Ken Sugiura

@ksugiuraajc

Oct 14

Alabama executive deputy AD J Batt has been hired as Georgia Tech's new athletic director, the AJC has learned.

Oct 7

Pac-12 media rights going to open market. ESPN, Fox remain involved in negotiations, but exclusive negotiating period has ended. sportsbusinessjournal.com/SB-Blogs/Break

Sep 28

Learfield re-org creates new divisions ... some executive level changes as well. sportsbusinessjournal.com/SB-Blogs/Break

Sep 26

"There just aren't enough people who look like me in these jobs." In this week's #SBJ, we look at

@ninaking22

's path from

@NotreDame

student to

@DukeATHLETICS

' AD 😈 🔗 sbjsbd.biz/Nina-King

Sep 20

My first story published in The Charlotte Observer … 1987. My senior year ⁦

@appstate

⁩. … This week’s ⁦

@JMUFootball

⁩ game ⁦

⁩ brings back some memories. App and James Madison have always had the potential for a great rivalry.

Sep 18

Well, this happened in Boone. Video: ⁦

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Sep 15

NEWS: Citi is newest Notre Dame partner. Will title sponsor the inaugural Shamrock Classic women's basketball game pitting ND and Cal. JMI/Legends jointly facilitated the deal.

Citi becomes championship partner of Notre Dame

Citi has joined Notre Dame’s championship partner program and will title sponsor the inaugural Shamrock Classic women’s basketball game on Nov. 12.

Most interactions on official team social accounts in August (non-P5): 25) BYU 29) UCF 30) Cincinnati 38) App St 57) Houston 58) Liberty 63) Montana St 65) N Dakota St

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@SkullSparks

Nissan Heisman House 2022 | Nissan USA

Top 100 college football programs generating the most interactions on official team social accounts in August 2022. SkullSparks.com/analytics_faq

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New

Heisman House ads debut today with Bryce Young, the returning Heisman winner. Young is the brand's first NIL athlete.

@Learfield

Allied arranged for Young to wear his Bama jersey in the spot.

nissanusa.com

Heisman House kicks off for a new season of shenanigans with the legendary Heisman Trophy winners. Check out this year's lineup, sweepstakes, videos and more.

Doug Gillin

@DougGillin

NEW West side Locker Room Grab & Go!!! ⁦

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App State's average attendance in 1983 (my freshman year) was 12,873. ... On Saturday, 40,000 fans will fill Kidd Brewer Stadium. Could never have imagined it.

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Joe Favorito

@joefav

Nice read. With #UNC coming to town, App State and Boone brace for a Saturday unlike any other @SmittySBJ heraldsun.com/sports/college

Very cool collaboration between Virginia Tech football and

@Triumph_NIL

, the collective that serves the Hokies' athletes, to put Triumph branding on the team's equipment trailers. VT travels to Old Dominion on Friday night.

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Virginia Tech Football

@HokiesFB

Aug 31

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7 Say hi if you see us on the road! #ThisIsHome | #GroundUp

Aug 31

ESPN's statement contradicts report that says Big 12 has entered media talks early. From ESPN: “We regularly engage in conversation around the future with all of our partners, but to be clear, we have not opened the contractual negotiation window with the Big 12 at this time."

Aug 30

Fantastic insight from this group of sports media experts. ...

mocked me for my poor lighting.

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LEAD1 Association

@lead1acom

Aug 29

Very insightful discussion. Thank you @ajmaestas , @Ourand_SBJ, Michael Nathanson, @SmittySBJ, @rltsports, and @LHB_SportsMedia for this engaging webinar.

FBSchedules.com

@FBSchedules

Aug 29

NC State, Appalachian State schedule 2025-26 football series fbschedules.com/nc-state-appal

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With NIL, the transfer portal, and realignment helping rapid fuel change, college football's many power brokers seek a new way. In this week's #SBJ,

takes a deeper look at the future of college football and its alignment with the

@NCAA

. 🔗 sbjsbd.biz/CFB-Future

Aug 18

One of the biggest surprises for me is that CBS will produce the Big Ten games with the same announcers, production crew, music, etc., that it does with the SEC.

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Aug 18

BREAKING: The Big Ten finalized media rights contracts with CBS, Fox, and NBC for $8B over seven years

This is the most lucrative conference media rights deal in history of college athletics

(via @SmittySBJ) sbjsbd.biz/Big-Ten-Media-

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Aug 18

The biggest complication for the Big Ten was figuring out what to do with CBS, which has another year on its SEC deal. The solution: CBS will have a reduced package of Big Ten games and will carry its full SEC slate in 2023.

NEWS: Big Ten's historic new media rights deal worth more than $8 billion.

Big Ten officially agrees to new media deals with CBS, Fox, NBC

The Big Ten has made official its new media deals with CBS, NBC and Fox, which total over $8 billion.

NEWS: ESPN says it is out of the Big Ten media rights negotiations. Clears way for Fox to own primary rights with secondary packages going to CBS and NBC. Per

ESPN out of Big Ten media rights talks; CBS, NBC set to join Fox

ESPN has pulled out of Big Ten media rights negotiations entirely, ending one of the longest sports media relationships in the business.

Browning Captures the 13th N.C. Amateur Match Play Victory

Carolinas Golf Assoc

@CGAgolf1909

Aug 7

Congratulations to Colin Browning, our 13th North Carolina Amateur Match Play Champion 🏆🙌 Catch up on all of the action in our recap below! Recap: bit.ly/3SvCZo1 Bracket: bit.ly/3d7sqrg Photos: bit.ly/3zVOePq

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WILMINGTON, N.C. (August 7, 2022) -- The final results of the 13th North Carolina Amateur Match Play Championship at the Country Club of Landfall...

Aug 5

During the Warner Bros Discovery earnings call this week, Zaslav barely talked about sports and news.

and

@sherman4949

discuss what that means for the company's future and the role sports and news will play in it.

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John Ourand

Aug 5

I spoke with @sherman4949 this morning about the biggest takeaways from Warner Bros. Discovery's Q1 numbers. "Maybe the longer-term plan here for [Zaslav] doesn't involve news and sports." Listen to the whole interview here: sbjtv.com/detail/videos/

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Aug 4

NIL NEWS: The Virginia Tech collective, Triumph NIL, says it has signed 28 Hokie football players to $300,000 worth of NIL deals. Athletes will "promote company business and philanthropic initiatives," the collective says.

Aug 4

PENN ST: Several familiar sports marketing types are assisting Penn State with a university-wide corp partnership program. Ex-Visa exec Michael O'Hara Lynch, IEG's Pete Laatz, ex-NCAA marketer Keith Martin, Jed Pearsall involved. Bears watching. psu.edu/news/story/pen

Jul 27

Last week,

sold out of its 11K season tickets for the first time in program history 👏 AD Doug Gillin continues the tradition of having students, averaging 10K a game, behind the home bench. Read more in

's College Newsletter ⬇ sbjsbd.biz/AppStatesznsel

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