Barking Carnival

...or at least restrict those who aren't paying them for the privilege. The Southeastern Conference announced new rules that would restrict media outlets in terms of use of video, audio, photographs and digital descriptions of any and all SEC events, from games to practices and press conferences. After hearing from just about every media outlet outside of their TV partners ESPN and CBS, the SEC has indicated that maybe they were a little quick

the ACC, Big 10, Big East and the Pac 10. Heading into the 2009 football season, the Southeastern Conference is begining a 15-year deal with ESPN and CBS that makes the conference "A First Among Equals" in the BCS. While the numbers are staggering in terms of money flowing to SEC schools, the ramifactions of the contracts reach beyond the bottom line. But first and foremost, it is the money that catches your attention. REVENUE "Timing Is

Bagmen If street agents are becoming an increasingly dominant fixture in college football (and they are) why doesn't Texas participate in the game? After we started writing about it, this question was posed to me by more than a few of my friends who pointed out what we all know: our alums are outrageously wealthy, obsessed with football, love to meddle, and easily capable of placing every street agent

...and the ACC, Big 10, the Big East and the Pac 10 with their new TV contract. ESPN Regional Television, the new over-the-air syndication home for some Southeastern Conference programming , announced a regionally syndicated college sports package that will air in more than 73 television markets including Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston and San Antonio. The regional package will be branded as the SEC network, and it will broadcast 13 SEC football games across the

When Arkansas jumped to the SEC in 1990 the final stage for the demise of the SWC was set in motion. The league had already been doomed by various factors, not the least of which was the unbridled cheating that had been rampant during the 1980's, but the Razorbacks defection sped up the process. Back then Texas was ready to jump to the Pac-10. Again, outside factors stopped that idea in its tracks, and the retiring

As you're going about your July 4 today, remembering the brilliant men who founded this nation, honoring all those brave souls who have fallen to ensure what freedoms you have remaining, cooking up slabs of fatty meats on your grill, and consuming large quantities of beer, wine, vodka, tequila or some combination thereof, be sure to take just a moment out of your time to thank your parents, a counselor, a mentor or whomever else it might

Now that the July Rubicon has been forded and my mourning for Michael Jackson has ended, our attentions can turn in earnest to college football preview magazines and preseason prognostication. Like many of you, I will purchase several terrible college football magazines with outdated information (Jarvis Humphery's development at DT will be key for the 'Horns!), poor analysis (2008 Preview Headline: Can West Virginia prevent the inevitable Ohio State/Georgia national title game?), and uninspired

in the final Learfield Sports Director's Cup D-1 Standings. It's the award that is given annually to the best overall collegiate athletics program. Actually, its proper name should be the Cardinal Director's Cup since Stanford has won the award 15 years in a row. The Director's Cup, run by the National Association of College Directors of Athletics (NACDA) is given out to the program with the best post-season success in both men's and women's athletics.

This one's for all the marbles. It all comes down to this. Winner takes all. To help tide us over until gametime and get through the workday, here are some videos of the runups and the final games of our athletic department's last three chances to take home a national championship with one more win (I get to ignore the 2004 Fullerton series because we never got into that position):

Texas Burnt Orange continues to have a green tint to it as the Longhorns generated the most football revenue and total athletics revenue in 2007-08. Texas took in almost $73 million in football revenue during the 2007-08 school year, as well as a total of $120.3 million in total dollars. Texas was one of only three programs to produce athletics revenue over $100 million last school year. Ohio State

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