December 4, 2012
Scott OlsonOrganizers of the Big Ten football championship played in Indianapolis say they’ll consider making changes for next
year’s game in an attempt to boost attendance.
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November 29, 2012
Scott OlsonOrganizers of the Big Ten Conference football championship game are facing third-and-long in their quest to fill Lucas Oil
Stadium for Saturday night's matchup. A glut of tickets remains available on the secondary market.
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November 26, 2012
Associated PressPurdue wants a football team that can get to the Rose Bowl, and decided Danny Hope was not the coach to take it there. Replacement
names already percolating include Northern Illinois' Dave Doeren, Illinois State's Brock Spack and Ball State's Pete Lembo.
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November 24, 2012
Bill BennerIt has become clear that, in the new world order of big-time intercollegiate athletics, these are the things that really matter:
eyeballs.
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November 20, 2012
Bloomberg NewsRutgers University is moving to the Big Ten Conference, ending a more than two-decade affiliation with the Big East as it
looks to strengthen its athletic, financial and academic standing.
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November 19, 2012
Associated PressMaryland will become the southernmost member of the Big Ten member starting in July 2014. Rutgers is expected to follow suit
by Tuesday, splitting from the Big East and making it an even 14 schools in the Big Ten.
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November 9, 2012
Scott OlsonBuilt in 1928, the aging facility is about to undergo its most extensive renovation since the building began hosting basketball
games shortly before the Great Depression.
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October 30, 2012
Associated PressThe NCAA passed a package of sweeping changes Tuesday intended to crack down hard on rule-breaking schools and coaches.
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October 16, 2012
Associated PressThe NCAA is "ludicrous and hypocritical" for moving five championship games out of New Jersey next year because
the state plans to offer legalized sports betting, a spokesman for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said.
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October 13, 2012
The Atlantic 10 is wasting little time marketing its newest member—the Butler Bulldogs.
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October 13, 2012
Anthony SchoettleThe Indianapolis-based Horizon League says it is "energized" about its future, despite losing its most famous member—Butler
University.
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October 12, 2012
Bloomberg NewsNotre Dame’s football squad is undefeated after five games for the first time in a decade. That’s good news for
their opponents: The team is even more of a draw on the road for fans and sponsors.
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September 18, 2012
Bloomberg NewsForty years after the U.S. government's Title IX law required equal athletic opportunities for men and women, just four women
are in charge at the 120 sports departments in NCAA football's top tier.
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September 12, 2012
Associated PressThe University of Notre Dame is leaving the Big East for the Atlantic Coast Conference in all sports but football.
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September 1, 2012
Anthony SchoettleBill Simpson, famous for pioneering multiple advances in auto-racing safety, has turned his attention to a new sport. His
new company, SGH Helmets, is making a football helmet that Simpson hopes will help prevent concussions.
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August 2, 2012
Associated PressNearly a year after promising to impose harsher sanctions on the most egregious rule-breakers, NCAA leaders endorsed a proposal
Thursday that would make schools subject to the same crippling penalties just handed to Penn State.
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July 28, 2012
Bill BennerAs I surveyed the reaction to the NCAA’s decision to crush the football program at Penn State University, one thought
kept coming to me in two entirely different ways: What if it had been my son?
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July 23, 2012
Cory SchoutenThe National Collegiate Athletic Association's swift and severe punishment of Penn State University over a sexual abuse scandal
is a bold departure from its normal operating procedure.
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July 23, 2012
Bloomberg News, Associated PressThe NCAA on Monday morning slammed Penn State with an unprecedented series of penalties, including a $60 million fine and
the loss of all coach Joe Paterno's victories from 1998-2011, in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
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July 21, 2012
Bill BennerInstead of shutting down Penn State football, why not use that economic engine to do some enormous good?
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June 21, 2012
Associated PressThe BCS commissioners have backed a plan for a four-team playoff with the sites for the national semifinals rotating among
the major bowl games and a selection committee picking the participants. The plan will be presented to university presidents
next week for approval.
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May 7, 2012
Associated PressButler University has learned that it is violating U.S. civil rights laws because it isn’t spending enough money on
its male athletes. It also was directed to get more women involved in intercollegiate sports.
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May 4, 2012
Associated PressEx-Ohio State and Indianapolis Colts quarterback Art Schlichter was sentenced Friday to nearly 11 years in federal prison
for scamming participants in what authorities called a million-dollar sports ticket scheme.
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May 2, 2012
Scott OlsonButler University formally announced its departure from the Horizon League Wednesday. It will begin playing in the Atlantic
10 in the 2013-14 season.
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April 14, 2012
Anthony SchoettleGet Real Sports Sales is positioned to grow as colleges, pro teams begin to outsource ticket sales.
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.