Asbury College has been producing sports out of a remote production trailer since 1984, but this year, the school’s productions received a significant upgrade. The school that literally wrote the book on television sports production — 1,500 entry-level staff members at the Beijing Olympics worked with the book, published by Focal Press, before putting the Games on air last summer — has doubled the capacity of its remote sports productions. Asbury College has just completed work on a 40-foot high-definition mobile production van, a significant upgrade from the 24-foot unit the students were previously working with.

The YES Network continues its production transition to all HD and it has tapped New York City-based remote-production services provider Metrovision to help. Metrovision built out a new Manhattan studio for the Mike Francesa Show and, later this year, will roll out a 40-foot HD production truck that be used by the YES Network for smaller sporting events and other live productions in HD.

This season, Fox College Sports (FCS) decided to shake up its football coverage by giving the fans a chance to interact directly with the broadcast. Sideline reporter Samantha Steele has set up a Twitter account to which fans can tweet anything that comes to mind. Throughout the game, she monitors the comments and incorporates them into the broadcast when appropriate. Leaving a path of communication open to the fan is always risky, but FCS has decided to use the Twitter medium to let the fans talk back to the TV, and have the TV listen.

ESPNU will take to the ice on Oct. 18 for college hockey coverage with a matchup between No. 12 Boston College and No. 11 University of Vermont. Without an NHL package on ESPN’s family of networks, college hockey is a chance for ESPNU to shine and the college-sports network has brought in some familiar faces to help.

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 7, he makes some personnel changes that lead to the team’s best production to date.

XOS Technologies teamed up with Sony Electronics to provide game-preparation-analysis resources for the newly opened Jay and Jenny Allison Indoor Practice Facility at Baylor University, with XOS installing Sony HD Pan Tilt Zoom cameras with serial-digital-interface output capability in both HD and standard-definition.

Coaches, student-athletes and a capacity crowd of fans were in attendance for the first official athletic event at the new Spieker Aquatics Center at the University of California–Los Angeles. They were treated to not only a new state-of-the-art home for their aquatics sports, but also a complete scoring, timing and video system designed, manufactured and installed by Daktronics for swimming, diving and water polo.

From the University of California's Upper Sproul Plaza three weeks ago came the evocative, 1960s-era sounds of protest — speeches, chants, calls for change — over staggering budget cuts on the Berkeley campus and throughout the UC system. Just up Bancroft Way, construction outside football's Memorial Stadium raised a competing clatter.

College wrestling has gained its first toehold in Texas in a quarter century. Within a sport that has faced the loss of teams for decades, that merits a hallelujah. Wayland Baptist University, located in the Texas Panhandle in the city of Plainview, announced Tuesday it is adding men's and women's varsity wrestling. The teams will begin competing in the 2010-2011 school year.

Nebraska Athletic Director Tom Osborne made it clear Friday that if Lincoln voters refuse to approve a new arena in May, the university will not wait around for another vote. Instead, Osborne said, it will renovate the Bob Devaney Sports Center.

The NCAA will deploy a new seating configuration for the 2010 Men’s Frozen Four that sets the overall capacity to more than 36,000 seats. The move accommodates what is expected to be a record crowd and is intended to provide better access and sight lines for fans at the April 8 and 10 semifinals and final at Ford Field in Detroit.

he Big Ten Conference unveiled its new postseason lineup for the 2010-13 college football seasons, with six Big Ten bowl games set to be featured annually on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, including five contests on Jan. 1. The conference office announced four-year bowl extensions with the Capital One, Outback and Insight and new four-year bowl agreements with the Konica Minolta Gator, Texas and Dallas Football Classic.

Pending approval by the NCAA, the new Dallas Football Classic at the Cotton Bowl stadium means North Texas would host three bowls – over as few as eight days – after the 2010 college football season. "If you're a college football fan, you're in high heaven," said Tom Starr, executive director of the new bowl. The New Year's Day game, announced this week, has agreements with the Big Ten and Conference USA to provide teams.

The Big East Conference announced Wednesday a four-year extension of their agreement with the Meineke Car Care Bowl through the 2013 season. The Big East and Meineke Car Care Bowl have been aligned since the game's inception in 2002 with the new agreement slated to begin in 2010.

NCAA documents released Wednesday as the result of a news media lawsuit explain the thinking behind a proposal to strip Florida State coaches and athletes of victories for academic cheating — even those not implicated. The release also pierces the NCAA's veil of secrecy in disciplinary cases for the first time due to court rulings saying certain documents involving state schools are public records.

Financial documents show it cost more to operate two older sports facilities at Missouri State University in 2008-09 than in the previous year, though basketball games were moved to the new JQH Arena last year. The operating expenses for Hammons Student Center and Plaster Sports Complex rang up at $2 million, while JQH Arena recorded $496,000.

The University of Alabama contends the NCAA wrongly forced the football program to vacate 21 victories, describing it as an "unprecedented penalty" in cases involving abuse of free textbooks. The university, in a 14-page rebuttal released Tuesday, spelled out several reasons why the wins should be restored, including the NCAA committee on infraction's improper citing of Alabama's repeat offender status.

What Eliot Ness was to mobsters and Inspector Clouseau was to fictional jewel thieves, Brendan Wilhide is to Twitter. Yes, the popular social-networking tool now has an enforcer—public-relations specialist by day, Internet private eye by night. With more than one-third of the NBA, hundreds of NFL players and scores of major leaguers on Twitter, Mr. Wilhide spends several hours a day determining which athletes' accounts are phonies and which are legit.

The Houston Bowl has changed conference affiliations and will take a Big Ten team to face a Big 12 opponent starting in 2010. The Big Ten will take the place of a Big East or Conference USA team. "While we have had great success with our matchups over the last three years, this new partnership with the Big 12 and Big Ten conferences guarantees our fans the chance to see two football powerhouses play at Reliant Stadium in 2010 and beyond," said Texas Bowl manager Heather Houston.

The Mobile Arts & Sports Association has signed a contract that will keep the Senior Bowl in Mobile for at least the next three years. MASA board members met for about four hours Thursday at the Riverview Plaza Hotel in downtown. The finally agreed on a three year facilities lease agreement with the Ladd Peebles Stadium Board with an option to cancel the agreement after each year.

The Big Ten Network last weekend had the most-watched college football games of the day across the nine metered markets within the Big Ten area. The network also broke its own local viewing records in five of those markets, including Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton and Detroit.

A Wisconsin sports consulting company says a new Lincoln arena and associated developments could generate $260 million in annual economic activity and create 1,200 jobs. That assumes the University of Nebraska-Lincoln men's and women's basketball teams - and occasionally the volleyball team - would play in the arena.

Utah State has signed a television deal for some football and basketball games to be broadcast in Utah and three neighboring states. Athletic director Scott Barnes announced the deal with XXL Sports and Cis-Com Productions this week. Barnes says the deal calls for a minimum of 13 events to be televised live during the current school year and at least 15 events during the next three years.

Dan Radakovich is roughly halfway through his fourth year at Georgia Tech, and under his leadership the Athletic Association has made considerable changes in fund-raising methods, built a new award-winning, on-campus softball stadium, a basketball practice facility, and made significant upgrades to Bobby Dodd Stadium and more.

Good news, Facebook users: You can now poke your commissioner during your draft. And, hey, fantasy football players: You can scroll through vacation pictures of your ex in Cancun on the same site you check your live scoring. Two of pop culture's largest phenomena – fantasy football and Facebook – seem to have finally found a way to make their union work. The question now is, will it last?

John Thompson is nothing if not absolute in his convictions, and on this the retired Hall of Fame coach is insistent: Kevin Broadus is a good man. It's hardly a unanimous assessment. Broadus, entering his third season as the men's basketball coach at Binghamton University, stands in the middle of a storm that has ravaged the program and unsettled the 63-year-old school near the Susquehanna River in south-central New York.