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By Michelle Brutlag Hosick
The NCAA News
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Conferences: The Big South Conference has entered into a television rights agreement with SportSouth, granting the network exclusive rights to televise select Big South sporting events beginning in 2007-08. A minimum of nine Big South events will be televised: three regular-season football games and six regular-season men’s basketball games. The network is owned by Fox Networks Group and reaches more than 8.8 million cable and satellite subscribers. The Big South also is partnering with the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network, which will provide live television coverage to conference schools. The network will air at least two live football games and four live men’s basketball games throughout the coming seasons. The two football games already on the schedule for 2007 are Coastal Carolina University at Liberty University, November 3; and Liberty at Gardner-Webb University, November 17. Basketball broadcasts will be announced later.
Facilities: The University of Hawaii, Manoa, will allow its athletics department to sell naming rights to various sections of a new football office complex. The complex includes a reception area, 11 offices, a video room and two conference rooms paid for with private donations. Naming rights start at $50,000 for an assistant coach’s office, while the video room is expected to cost between $100,000 and $200,000 ... Auburn University will break ground on a $92.5 million basketball arena and practice facility next summer. The 29,000-square-foot facility will seat 9,600 people and is expected to open before the 2010-11 season. The arena will house a two-court practice facility, offices, the ticket office and team store, the Lovelace Museum and two food courts. The facility is expected to easily convert to a site for convocation, concerts and other cultural events. “Construction of a new arena will help our basketball programs compete for championships, give our fans and students a venue that they can enjoy and provide a facility in which Auburn University can take great pride,” said Athletics Director Jay Jacobs. “A new arena is not only an investment in the future of our basketball programs, but it is an investment in the future of Auburn University and the community. It will provide a much-improved venue and will attract other events the student body can enjoy in the years ahead.”
Miscellaneous: St. Mary’s College (California) unveiled a new logo last month that revamped the “SMC” monogram. The mark was developed by Osaki Creative, Inc., of Emeryville, California. The logo is intended to evoke a sense of tradition, family and pride. All facilities on campus were updated with the new symbol, and work is continuing on the second phase of the project, which will create a new three-dimensional Gael mascot. Officials hope to have the new mascot before January. Also, for the first time in school history, the athletics department has an official in-store licensing agreement with an off-campus vendor. Beginning August 15, Champs stores in the Bay area will carry St. Mary’s merchandise. “Our initial research showed that the SMC community associated the Gaels with family, unity, brotherhood and pride,” Athletics Director Mark Orr said. “The implementation of Celtic knot into the mark took these keywords and fused them with the rich tradition of our mascot’s heritage. It really tells our story.”
Facilities: The University of Hawaii, Manoa, will allow its athletics department to sell naming rights to various sections of a new football office complex. The complex includes a reception area, 11 offices, a video room and two conference rooms paid for with private donations. Naming rights start at $50,000 for an assistant coach’s office, while the video room is expected to cost between $100,000 and $200,000 ... Auburn University will break ground on a $92.5 million basketball arena and practice facility next summer. The 29,000-square-foot facility will seat 9,600 people and is expected to open before the 2010-11 season. The arena will house a two-court practice facility, offices, the ticket office and team store, the Lovelace Museum and two food courts. The facility is expected to easily convert to a site for convocation, concerts and other cultural events. “Construction of a new arena will help our basketball programs compete for championships, give our fans and students a venue that they can enjoy and provide a facility in which Auburn University can take great pride,” said Athletics Director Jay Jacobs. “A new arena is not only an investment in the future of our basketball programs, but it is an investment in the future of Auburn University and the community. It will provide a much-improved venue and will attract other events the student body can enjoy in the years ahead.”
Miscellaneous: St. Mary’s College (California) unveiled a new logo last month that revamped the “SMC” monogram. The mark was developed by Osaki Creative, Inc., of Emeryville, California. The logo is intended to evoke a sense of tradition, family and pride. All facilities on campus were updated with the new symbol, and work is continuing on the second phase of the project, which will create a new three-dimensional Gael mascot. Officials hope to have the new mascot before January. Also, for the first time in school history, the athletics department has an official in-store licensing agreement with an off-campus vendor. Beginning August 15, Champs stores in the Bay area will carry St. Mary’s merchandise. “Our initial research showed that the SMC community associated the Gaels with family, unity, brotherhood and pride,” Athletics Director Mark Orr said. “The implementation of Celtic knot into the mark took these keywords and fused them with the rich tradition of our mascot’s heritage. It really tells our story.”
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