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SEC Commissioner Mike Slive Talks Television Deal, Expansion

Second of four parts. In 1991, eight years after beginning his one-man New Hampshire law practice that had come to focus exclusively on NCAA issues, Mike Slive accepted his first commissioner's job, as head of the Midwest Conference. Successful as a commissioner of that league, four years later, Slive accepted an offer to...

SEC Heisman Candidates: The Mark Ingram Effect

Last season, no one listed Alabama's sophomore tailback Mark Ingram among the top contenders for the 2009 Heisman Trophy. That's because Ingram was the definition of a dark horse, a young player who had shown flashes of talent in his freshman season, but hadn't been so impressive as to elicit preseason praise. Of course,...

SEC's Draft Show Ends Best College Football Conference Argument

The best players in the country want to play in the SEC because the best players in the country play in the SEC. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy that becomes more true every year. That's the college football lesson we can draw as the 2010 NFL Draft came to a close with the SEC setting a draft record -- 49 league players...

If Big Ten Expands Will SEC Follow? Ranking the Expansion Candidates

Over the weekend the Chicago Tribune reported the Big Ten could make a move on conference expansion as soon as June of this year. Now the big question becomes whether the conference will choose to add one, three, or even, amazingly, five teams to its existing 11- team conference. As the Tribune reported:, "I don't think...

Tim Tebow Won't Save World, But He Can Certainly Save the Florida Gators

What began with an apology ended with a national title.Fourteen and a half weeks after Tim Tebow fought back the tears and promised that that day's loss to Ole Miss was only a beginning, he fought back the Sooners and made sure that promise came true.And, unless you lived under a rock that has yet to undergo the digital...