ESPN Launching College Sports Initiative
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ESPN will launch a new multimedia college sports initiative in March 2005 that includes a new 24-hour television network and content from ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine.
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An increasing number of menâs basketball programs are looking to make the transition to Division I and acquire all the rewards and struggles that come with it.
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College baseball teams would have to conform to specific dates for starting practice and games under an NCAA proposal that also would push the College World Series into July some years.
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Big Ten play will kickoff for both Penn State and No. 20 Wisconsin at Camp Randall Stadium on ESPN&#39;s College Football Saturday Primetime.
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Sports fans will get another way to indulge their passion next year when ESPN launches ESPN Mobile, a telephone service offering everything from video highlights
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ESPN&#39;s &quot;College GameDay&quot; crew will set up camp in Raleigh, NC, for the first time Saturday as a backdrop to the North Carolina State-Miami game.
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Barely a year after an internal investigation into ESPN's boxing program led to the dismissal of its long-time boxing coordinator and a shakeup in its approach that left many small-time promoters losing money just to put a show on the network, ESPN has decided to fight for a niche in the sport long the property of HBO and Showtime.
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When the alarm goes off today for the players at Boise State and San Jose State, they'll yawn, stretch and mutter something like, "It must be noon somewhere." Think television is an innocent bystander in college sports? If so, hit the snooze button. The Broncos and Spartans will kick off their Western Athletic Conference tilt at 9:02 a.m. Pacific Time, for the benefit of ESPN2. To adjust, Boise State Coach Dan Hawkins has had the team up at 5 a.m. all week. "We're used to having to play whenever ESPN wants to cover it," Boise State's    Daryn Colledge  told the Idaho Statesman. Ah, the purity of college athletics.
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With big steps already being taken toward academic reform in college athletics, NCAA president Myles Brand believes the next area of concern is containing costs.
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Electronic Arts, hoping to shore up its eroding dominance in the sports video game market, signed a deal giving it the exclusive right to use the ESPN brand in games.
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ESPN, The Worldwide Leader in Sports, and Verizon Wireless, operator of  the nation's most reliable national wireless  broadband network, announced today an exclusive multi-year agreement to  deliver an unmatched ESPN mobile sports content line-up to Verizon  Wireless customers.
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Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese is pushing a plan to change the way teams are selected for the Bowl Championship Series and make the process, which has been marked by controversy since its inception in 1998, more in line with the way the NCAA picks teams for its basketball tournament.
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NCAA president Myles Brand wants to see an 80 percent graduation rate for Division I athletes, setting what he called an "aspirational" goal Wednesday to build on academic gains of recent years.
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Mountain West Conference football and basketball games will move from ESPN to College Sports Television in the fall of 2006.
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LOS ANGELES  - In a first for the U.S.   market, the struggling Mobile ESPN network is offering live and   complete football games for viewing on cell phones.
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Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN network will  soon announce new licensing agreements for its wireless phone  content, the network's chief said on Wednesday.
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ESPN, which managed to offend the NFL with an edgy football drama, is back in the game with a project set in the world of high-stakes poker.