NCAA Tournament expansion: Bad news for the “mid-majors”?
In case you missed it, the Sports Business Journal reported late last week that a combined bid by CBS and Turner Sports for March Madness is the best one on the table — the one the NCAA is most likely...
View ArticleNCAA Tournament expansion: Why 68 teams and not 96?
It made the popular move, the smart move and the right move – a rare trifecta for an institution as secretive and insular as the NCAA. But officials never explained why they expanded the men’s...
View ArticleHotline update: If you think the past month has been busy …
… Get ready for the next few weeks. Seriously. We’ve been through NCAA Tournament expansion, the coaching carousel, the seemingly-daily arrests on the Oregon Trail and all the talk about conference...
View ArticleBCS football: The latest on realignment
*** 7 p.m. update: Here are comments from Oklahoma president David Boren that sure make it sound like the Sooners could be joining the Pac-12 in the next few weeks. Scott will be attending the...
View ArticleBCS football: Time for a superconference summit
* I know, I know. This was supposed to be my final realignment-related post of the week. But I can’t help myself — the stuff is fascinating, and monumentally important … The thought occurred to me this...
View ArticleBCS football: Realignment news starring the Big 12, Missouri, West Virginia,...
There has been a ton of news, semi-news and potential news on the realignment front in the past four or five days (and plenty more to come in the next few weeks). I’ll attempt to touch on all the...
View ArticleFBS realignment: M-Day becomes A-Day for the MWC, C-USA (and what that would...
Throughout the realignment wave that hit the BCS leagues last summer, the Hotline cautioned fans to keep one thing in mind above all else: Because there are so many levels of state and university...
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