Miscellaneous: Former University of Tennessee, Knoxville, quarterback Peyton Manning has pledged $1 million to the school’s athletics department. The gift, which represents the largest gift from a recent Volunteer student-athlete, will be used to update the Neyland-Thompson Sports Center and toward the master plan renovations at Neyland Stadium. The latest pledge is the second gift from Manning to the university. He made a major gift in 1998 toward the construction of the Thornton Athletics Student Life Center. In addition, Tennessee Athletics established the Peyton Manning Scholarship, which is awarded annually to a first-year student participating in Tennessee’s honors program. Funds for the Manning scholarship come from the athletics department as well as various awards he won while at Tennessee as a student-athlete. Along with his donation, Manning will serve as an honorary co-chair of the university-wide upcoming capital campaign and the athletics capital campaign, which is aimed at providing funding for the master-plan renovations of Neyland Stadium, as well as the building of Pratt Pavilion basketball facility, Regal Soccer Stadium, Sherri Parker Lee Softball Stadium and other athletics department initiatives. Manning is the most decorated athlete in Vol history. He left Tennessee as the Southeastern Conference’s all-time leading passer with 11,201 yards, setting 42 passing records during a career that included two NCAA, seven SEC and 33 school marks. Off the field, Manning won the Draddy Award as National Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 1997 and graduated in three years with a degree in speech communications ... Oklahoma State University athletics director Mike Holder and University of Pittsburgh head football coach Dave Wannstedt both donated funds to their institutions to endow scholarships for future student-athletes. Holder and his wife donated $500,000 for the first endowed scholarship at Oklahoma State. The scholarship will be named for former safety Vernon Grant, who died last year in a car accident. Holder’s gift opened Oklahoma State’s campaign to fully endow all 229 varsity sports scholarships by 2016. The endowments could save nearly $6 million in annual expense for the athletics department. The donation to fully endow a scholarship is $500,000, though three donor categories have been designated — at the $500,000, $250,000 and $125,000 levels. Wannstedt gave $250,000 to his alma mater to endow a scholarship for a left tackle, the position Wannstedt played. The gift is the first in the "Pitt Football Endowed Position and Scholarship Program." The initiative seeks to endow the scholarships for the football team and is part of the "Quest for Excellence — the Campaign for Pitt Athletics." Officials hope to raise $45 million to secure scholarship and capital improvement project funding through the Quest for Excellence ... Robert Morris University has unveiled a new athletics logo for the school’s 23 Division I intercollegiate teams. The primary mark, the head of a Colonial atop the Robert Morris Colonials wordmark, replaces the current dome atop the "RMU" used by the department since 2002. The department of athletics will incorporate the new logo immediately and gradually phase out use of its old logo. "The growth of our department, with six new sports added since 2003, is the biggest reason why we are making this change at this time," said Athletics Director Craig Coleman. The school also is designing a new mascot, which will make its debut at the September 9 football home opener against Duquesne University. Also in the works is an overhaul of the Robert Morris department of athletics Web site, which will move to www.rmucolonials.com and will launch this fall. The new Robert Morris logo was created by Rickabaugh Graphics of Columbus, Ohio.