This fall, the Big Ten Network is doubling its streaming efforts. After offering 100 live events online a year ago, the network has committed to streaming at least 200 Olympic-sports events this year on BigTenNetwork.com, produced by students on each campus. The network touts the events as HD-quality, since they will be produced using HD-equipped flypacks purchased specifically for this initiative.

In 2001, the Arkansas State University athletic department purchased and installed video boards in its football stadium and basketball arena. To fill the boards with content, the athletic department embarked on a partnership with the department of radio and television, so that students could learn to operate the boards. Eight years later, Arkansas State students run all the in-arena production operations from a dedicated mobile-production truck and, in the process, are working themselves into full-time jobs in the production business.

The SEC Digital Network has granted fans of the Southeastern Conference more access to their favorite teams and sports than ever before, but this week, the Digital Network took another step closer to the fan. XOS Digital released the SEC Digital Network mobile platform, encompassing an SEC mobile Website, text alerts, and an iPhone application.

Oklahoma State University’s Sports Media Club has morphed from an extracurricular activity into a full-blown remote-production enterprise, and the students are upgrading their equipment accordingly. In addition to producing video-board productions in venues on campus, the OSU students are now doing a five-camera shoot for the Daktronics video board installed at Stillwater High School’s $35 million football complex — and they have turned to wireless technology to do that.

This is the third in a series of weekly articles by David Lind, Executive Producer, WIUP-TV. Each week, Lind goes behind the scenes at Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s TV production of the school’s 11-game football season, offering insight into what it takes to produce college-football coverage in a cost-effective manner. With games 3 and 4, the team logs its best productions to date, one with Lind in the director’s chair.

State-budget shortfalls mean tough times for the University of Iowa, but the school’s athletic department is managing to move ahead with several multimillion-dollar projects. This week, the university celebrated the opening of a $7.3 million boathouse for its rowing team. Iowa will begin construction soon on a $47 million addition and renovation of Carver-Hawkeye Arena, and, earlier this year, it spent $2 million to install artificial turf and improve drainage at the football stadium…

LG Electronics USA reached an agreement to become an Official NCAA Corporate Partner, giving it exclusive category marketing and promotional rights related to all 88 NCAA championship events across 23 different sports, including the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship and NCAA Football Championships.

XOS Digital added some editorial firepower to its SEC Digital Network, as the XOS Technologies division named two interactive managing editors for the Southeastern Conference service.

SportsNet New York revealed its schedule for its Big East Game of the Week and announced the addition of former University of Louisville and National Football League offensive tackle Roman Oben as a college football analyst.

ESPN announced its 2009-10 Big Monday Presented by Bud Light women’s college basketball schedule, which features top women’s teams in action Mondays at 7 p.m. or 9 p.m. ET, along with doubleheaders Feb. 8, 15, and 22.

Former Ole Miss quarterback Archie Manning, University of Miami head coach Randy Shannon, and actor David Keith will be this week’s guests on CBS College Sports Network’s The Tony Barnhart Show.

The slickly produced TV commercials, full of fresh young faces and what initially appears to be a cryptic message, suggests something out of a national Nike campaign.

The Kansas Board of Regents sealed a deal approving a $34 million seating addition at Memorial Stadium and pumping $40 million into university academics.

The West Coast Conference and San Jose's HP Pavilion were selected to host first and second-round games of the 2013 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, the NCAA said.

The NCAA men's basketball tournament will return to Nashville in 2012. The NCAA announced that 2012 first- and second-round games will be played at Sommet Center on March 16 and 18.

The Greensboro Coliseum will host the first and second rounds of the NCAA Division I men’s basketball championships in 2012, the NCAA announced.

Score one for the new kid in the arena war. The Prudential Center in Newark, which since its opening two years ago has tried to lure events away from the more-established Izod Center in East Rutherford, was chosen to host the 2011 NCAA East Regional for men's college basketball.

Intrust Bank Arena was not chosen by the NCAA to host a first- and second-round men's basketball tournament regional for 2011, 2012 or 2013.

The under-construction Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh will be the site for first- and second-round NCAA men's basketball tournament games on March 15 and 17, 2012.

The College Football Hall of Fame, long sought after as a crown jewel tourist attraction for the capital of the South, will touchdown in downtown Atlanta, multiple sources have told Atlanta Business Chronicle.

USA Volleyball has selected Austin to host its annual boys’ youth national championship event, the USA Junior Olympic Boys’ Volleyball Championships, in 2010. The event is expected to bring 400 teams and about 10,000 attendees to the city while generating about $11 million in visitor spending.

We're learning more about the impact of basketball at the BOK Center. As we told you, Tulsa was selected as one of the host sites for the NCAA men's basketball first and second round games.

Next year’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament at HSBC Arena will be the last in Buffalo for several years as the city was shut out of the latest round of site selections for the tourney’s games.

A football stadium expansion at Washington State University that was delayed by the economic slump will move forward.

Schools in leagues that have automatic berths in the Bowl Championship Series receive less-stringent probation penalties from the NCAA than other Division I institutions for violating the governing body's rules, says a study released by a former NCAA legal consultant.

Jim Isch, a senior vice president and the NCAA chief financial officer, will serve as interim president while the association searches for a successor to Myles Brand, who died.

Advertisers are ready for some football, as Brian Steinberg of AdAge.com reports that sales executives at several networks said ad-sales activity for National Football League and college games is more robust than expected.

Bright House Sports Network reached a deal with ESPN Regional Television to air Southeastern Conference sports including football, basketball, and baseball, and the regional sports network’s slate will kick off with Mississippi hosting Southeastern Louisiana in football at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 19, reports Michael Malone of Broadcasting & Cable.

The face of Penn State football is a senior citizen who often rolls up his khakis and jokingly abhors modern conveniences like e-mail.