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Mar 5, 2009 4:03:12 PM



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During the current economic downturn, institutions are searching for new ways to generate revenue for its athletics departments. Some schools are charging admission to spring football practices and others are raising ticket prices to sporting events. The University of Toledo...

 

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Can you imagine Tom Izzo without hair?

Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo promised the Spartan student section he would shave is head if his team won the Big ten.  On Sunday, Michigan State clinched a share of the Big Ten Crown…

Time to break out the clippers ... almost. Coach Izzo has decided to wait until after the NCAA

 

Mountain West proposes eight-team playoff

The league's planhttp:/i.ixnp.com/images/v3.70/t.gif would make the BCS' four current bowls (FedEx Orange, Allstate Sugar, Tostitos Fiesta and Rose) quarterfinals games in an eight-team playoff, quadrupling the number of teams who get a shot at the National Championship…

 

March Madness has arrived

There were a bunch of upsets in men's college basketball last night:

Texas Tech stunned No. 9 Kansas on Wednesday night, 84-65. Northwestern ended Purdue's seven-game home win streak, upending the No. 20 Boilermakes, 64-61. No. 12 Missouri finished the regular season undefeated, after beating No. 5 Oklahoma, 73-64. Vanderbilt knocked off No. 11 LSU, 75-67 in Baton Rouge.

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