In the cost-conscious college-sports world, Media Day events are an easy place to start looking for savings, and the Atlantic 10 Conference has found an effective formula. Instead of inviting players and coaches to travel to a central location for men’s and women’s basketball media days, the conference is putting together a live teleconference that incorporates all 14 campuses, relying on help from IP-based video service provider Glowpoint.

Sony’s XDCAM EX product line for field-based acquisition continues to grow, with the rollout of two camcorders this week. The PMW-350 is the first to have 2/3-in. CMOS sensors, and the PMW-EX1R offers DVCAM recording for users still working in standard definition. Both camcorders are potentially useful for college sports production and coaching programs that have yet to make the leap to HD.

In September, MobiTV and NBC Sports launched a live Notre Dame football app for the iPhone and iTouch. Halfway through the college football season, MobiTV Senior Director of Marketing Jay Hinman calls it a “big hit” and hints of much more to come.

It’s barely the middle of football season at the University of Tennessee, but the basketball teams take the floor for the first time next week. A single control room, housed in the centrally located communications building, handles production of in-arena scoreboard shows for both Neyland Stadium (football) and Thomson-Boling Arena (basketball), so the two-season overlap can be tough on the technical crew supporting UT’s game-day operations. Those two-sport weeks have been further complicated since the athletic department made the switch to high definition, but UT has relied on equipment from Telecast Fiber to ensure a smooth transition back and forth — and back again.

Thought Equity Motion has built its business by acquiring rights to college-sports video, but the company has recently expanded its horizons by entering into a partnership with BBC Motion Gallery, the stock-footage arm of BBC Worldwide. Using the formula Thought Equity has followed to successfully manage content from the Big Ten Conference and NCAA Championships, this partnership will allow Thought Equity to bring footage from the BCC Motion Gallery — including ECB Cricket, the International Tennis Federation, and the National Rugby League (NRL) — into its metadata-rich technology platform and sell it worldwide.

As part of the 15-year pact recently signed by ESPN and the Southeastern Conference, ESPN Regional Television will air SEC college basketball in 62 TV markets via SEC Network. The regular-season SEC men’s basketball package will tip off in January and consist of Wednesday and Saturday games, including doubleheaders.

NBC Sports’ presentation of the USC-Notre Dame college football game Saturday attracted 6.5 million viewers, the network said.

Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey, installed a new HD video display from Daktronics at Rutgers Stadium, home of Scarlet Knights football, as part of the school’s $102 million expansion of the facility.

The ESPN family is ready for the 2009-10 NCAA Women’s Basketball season to tip off, as some 250 games will air on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN360.com, and the ESPN Full Court package.

CBS Sports hears the sounds of sneakers squeaking on the hard court as the network prepares to tip off its 29th consecutive season of college basketball Saturday, Dec. 5, with defending national champion North Carolina at Kentucky.

After a decade leading the Michigan athletic department, Bill Martin announced his retirement, effective Sept. 4, 2010.

The SEC has notified Arkansas officials to let them know game officials made a mistake in calling a 10-yard penalty that helped Florida continue its final touchdown drive of the game in the Gators' 23-20 win on Saturday.

The Messiah College women's soccer team marches across campus, two by two, in its home whites, singing and clapping rhythmically an hour before kickoff.

The Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference has announced that Earlham College will join the membership beginning in the 2010-11 academic year. Earlham, located in Richmond, Ind., will join the conference after spending the past twenty years affiliated with the North Coast Athletic Conference.

On the sun-soaked campus of Florida International University, Isiah Thomas is a world away from the troubles of his past.

Technology developed by Irish universities is changing the way that major sports events are filmed and helping to deliver detailed performance information to athletes.

It was the chilliest night of the season, near 50 degrees with some light rain, or else DeKalb County’s Hallford Stadium might have been full Friday night.

Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Commissioner Rudy Keeling and ECAC President Dan Mara have announced that Lyndon State College, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Pennsylvania State University at Abington, Salem International University, and Virginia Commonwealth University have been voted into membership in the Eastern College Athletic Conference for the 2009-10 academic year.

South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier says Alabama used some tape trickery on field goals and extra points last weekend and is asking the Southeastern Conference if what he saw on video is legal.

There are far more important legislative priorities than wasting the taxpayers' dime spending one breath on Capitol Hill on the Bowl Championship Series' imperfections. The first BCS standings of 2009 ignited the season's first reflexive cries for government intervention. There's now even a political action committee supporting a college football playoff.

Eastern Michigan University has broken ground for a new $3.9 million multipurpose indoor sports practice facility for use by its teams and the community. It's near the northeast corner of the Eagles' football venue, Rynearson Stadium. Officials held a ceremony marking the start of the project earlier this week.

ESPN’s College GameDay will return to a Mountain West Conference school for the first time since originating from Utah Nov. 20, 2004, when the show hits Provo prior to the TCU-BYU game Saturday, Natalie Meisler of The Denver Post reports. In 2004, Utah was making its bid to remain unbeaten and crash the Bowl Championship Series party.

Last Saturday at Canham Natatorium, the Michigan men’s swimming and diving team received their rings for capturing their second-straight Big Ten championship last winter. The school’s athletic director, Bill Martin, was there, but his attendance wasn’t merely ceremonial.

The officiating crew from Saturday's Arkansas at Florida football game was suspended Wednesday by the Southeastern Conference. The suspension begins with their next scheduled assignment, which is Oct. 31. The crew will not return to work until Nov. 14, according to SEC commissioner Mike Slive.

The college basketball season got off to a big start Friday night, with teams allowed to practice for the first time, and that included Kentucky taking the floor with a positive outlook from new head coach John Calipari.

As part of the University-wide response to the economic downturn, the Athletics Department has decreased its budget by $915,000 for this fiscal year in accordance with the 5 percent across-the-board cuts made by every department in the University, according to Athletics Director Andy Noel. In addition, the department is facing a $1.3 million reduction in endowment payout over two years.

The Division I Legislative Council engaged in a comprehensive review of every legislative proposal in the 2009-10 cycle and offered preliminary support to several, including a measure that would limit the number of prospective football student-athletes a coach can sign to 28. More than half of the proposals would modify current recruiting rules.

Purdue and Notre Dame will continue playing football annually through at least the 2021 season. "Purdue and Notre Dame is one of the great matchups in college football," Purdue athletics director Morgan Burke said. Including this season's game, the Boilermakers and Fighting Irish have met every year since 1946 – 64 straight years – and 81 times overall, dating to 1896.

The Louisiana Tech Athletic Department will take another step forward in its branding efforts with the redesign and launch of its official website Thursday as www.latechsports.com received a total overhaul by CBS College Sports Network.