TCU’s sports-broadcasting curriculum will not be acknowledged as a full-fledged major until 2010, but students in the university’s sports-broadcasting courses are already getting plenty of real-world experience. The 20 students in the program will fulfill all of the production roles for three volleyball telecasts that will air this fall on The Mtn.—Mountain West Sports Network. Through this new partnership, TCU students will produce up to 18 live broadcasts for the network this spring, including women’s basketball, baseball, and soccer games, and the network hopes to get more schools’ broadcasting departments into the game, as well.

This week, ESPNU rolled into the University of South Carolina and put 15 seniors to work producing a women’s volleyball telecast for the network. The network added an extra camera to the setup and had the students take up nearly every position on the docket, ranging from cable-puller to play-by-play announcer. The experience—which aired live on ESPNU Wednesday night—turned out to be just as rewarding for the ESPNU executives as it was for the students.

A series of three, one-hour sports-related panel discussions, Expert Opinion With Graham Spanier, returns to the Big Ten Network this month. The shows, tackling such subjects as “Careers in Sports Journalism,” “Impact of New Media,” and “Life After NCAA,” will air on consecutive Wednesdays beginning Oct. 7.

This week, CBS College Sports Network is saluting the nation’s Armed Forces and the service-academy football teams: Army, Navy, and Air Force. The network has a tripleheader featuring all three teams beginning Saturday Oct. 10 at noon ET, and, to ensure that more sports fans than ever will see the tribute, the network is offering a free preview of the network for the week, which brings its distribution to more than 50 million homes.

This continues 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. In Week 6, the team goes through a communications breakdown and takes a step backward.

Visitors logging in the Horizon League’s Website are finding a brand-new, dynamic experience reaching beyond news stories and video portals. The site has undergone a complete redesign, accomplished by Indianapolis-based WebStream Productions, and was launched in mid September.

Two collegiate events at the Alamodome will see the unveiling of new looks for the San Antonio arena. When the Notre Dame and Washington State football teams travel to Texas for their Oct. 31 contest, the venue will be enhanced with the addition of six 60-ft. ribbon LED displays along the stadium’s concrete fascia.

Txtstation is proud to announce a partnership with Cellular South, a leader in wireless solutions and innovation, and two of its major collegiate sports properties, the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) and Mississippi State. The partnership will deliver interactive game features to Rebel and Bulldog fans at home football games all season long.

ESPNU will provide whip-around coverage of Midnight Madness events from several top college basketball programs Friday, Oct. 16 from 9 p.m.-1 a.m. ET, with sister network ESPN2 simulcasting its coverage from 11:30 p.m.-midnight.

Viejas Arena at San Diego State University, home of Aztec basketball, installed a new integrated light-emitting-diode video and scoring system designed and manufactured by Daktronics to present live and recorded video images, animation, and graphics.

Almost 92 percent of Division I institutions report that spending on academic support for student-athletes remained steady or increased since 2007, even though more than half of those schools cut overall athletics spending in the wake of the national economic downturn.

In recent seasons, there’s been a spike in Division III teams using offenses like the spread and defenses like the 4-2-5. But none of the changes on the field have evolved quite as quickly as the way we follow our teams when we’re off it.

Swank new practice facilities and 100-acre athletics villages may be magnetic recruiting tools, but they can be awfully rough on a balance sheet.

The NCAA, as some see it, is in a position to make history as it begins a search for a new president.

Hawaii and Washington have finalized a contract setting up meetings between the Warriors and Huskies in 2013 and 2015.

The University of Florida's grade dipped slightly in the latest edition of a green report card, even as it embarks on environmental initiatives such a cutting carbon emissions below 2005 levels and opening green buildings that are among the highest rated of their kind.

The Dogs and the Jackets meeting up in the Georgia Dome to kick off the 2011 season?

Ernie Kent scanned the sky from his spot on the deck at the Roseburg Country Club, marveling at the vast surroundings and wondering aloud just how far the course itself stretched.

Southeastern Conference supervisor of officials Rogers Redding said a critical unsportsmanlike conduct penalty against Georgia receiver A.J. Green in the closing minutes of its game Saturday against LSU should not have been called.

Russell Westbrook held the attention of an audience and an instructor, a familiar role for an N.B.A. player. Only, fellow students made up the crowd. And he was addressed by a teacher, not a coach.

In a case that open record advocates say has sweeping ramifications, an appellate court has ruled against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in its investigation over academic cheating among some athletes at Florida State University.

It doesn’t have the history of Camp Randall Stadium, or the atmosphere of the Kohl Center. It also couldn’t be called state-of-the-art, like Porter Boathouse.

Daktronics, Inc. (Nasdaq – DAKT) of Brookings, S.D., announced that it has designed, manufactured and installed a new video, scoring and sound system on the campus of Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Mich.

CBS College Sports Network will air two Atlantic Hockey Association, games this season and has been confirmed by Atlantic Hockey Commissioner Robert DeGregorio. On Friday, January 8, UConn will travel to Colorado to take on Air Force at the Cadet Ice Arena with game time set for 8:00 pm ET. The second match-up will feature Army taking on Mercyhurst at the Mercyhurst Ice Center on Friday, February 19, also at 8:00 pm ET.

ESPN Radio reached an agreement with the top-rated sports-radio station in New England, as the WEEI Sports Radio Network will begin syndicating ESPN Radio’s overnight programming and select weekend programming Nov. 2. The pact also covers live play-by-play of events including the Major League Baseball playoffs; the National Basketball Association and NBA playoffs; and the College Bowl Championship Series, including the 2010 BCS National Championship Game in January.

Dez Bryant, an all-American wide receiver at Oklahoma State, was declared ineligible by the university Wednesday for failing to disclose to the N.C.A.A the full details of contact he had with the former N.F.L. player Deion Sanders. According to an Oklahoma State statement, Bryant, a junior, did not tell the N.C.A.A. the full details of his interaction with a former N.F.L. player not affiliated with the university. Sanders said in a telephone interview that he was the player.

The first question about a sports venture bearing Bob Knight's name wasn't aimed directly at the Hall of Fame basketball coach Tuesday.

Moving the game against Georgia could be a very good thing for Georgia Tech.

By now, I’m pretty sure there’s been a lot more talk in the blogosphere than between the actual parties about the possibility of a Georgia-Georgia Tech football game in the Georgia Dome in September 2011. But, what the heck, let’s talk about it a bit more. . . .