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Big 12 Meetings Adjourn With No Commitments, Lots of Questions

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- No matter what Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe (above) says publicly, he came here to the league's spring meetings this week looking for commitments from all 12 members. But the commish left empty-handed Friday. Beebe received anything but assurances as the four-day Big 12 spring meetings broke off....

The Real Price of Big Ten Membership

Membership in the Big Ten certainly has its privileges. There's the history, the athletic tradition, the link with some of the finest research institutions in the country -- and of course, the annual check for $22 million. That's how much each of the schools in the Big Ten conference collected last year in media money,...

Texas AD: No Talks With Big Ten About Expansion

University of Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds has mostly been quiet as speculation has swirled the past couple weeks that the Big Ten may be interested in the Longhorns if the league expands. Dodds' public relations people have said he will not respond to rumors or speculation, but Wednesday Dodds broke his silence...

Texas to Big Ten? Commissioner Delany Says That's News to Him

In the first official word from the Big Ten, commissioner Jim Delany told a Chicago radio station Friday that the conference has not contacted any schools about possible expansion. A report came Thursday that the Big Ten is attempting to lure Texas away from the Big 12. There has also been speculation the Big Ten was also...

SEC, ESPN Win Showdown After Comcast's First Ever Reasonable Action

What's your No. 1 fear if you subscribe to cable and you're a sports fan? Aside from the signal dying on the first day of the NCAA basketball tournament or on any Saturday or Sunday in the fall, it's that through no fault of your own you might not be able to watch your favorite teams play because of rights disputes between...

Background on Big Ten Network

The Big Ten Network (BTN) is an American regional sports network dedicated to the Big Ten Conference, jointly operated by the conference itself and Fox Sports, and is the first internationally distributed network dedicated to covering a single college conference.

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