CBS College Sports Network’s SEC Tailgate sets up weekly outside CBS Sports’ SEC Game of the Week. CBS College’s show goes on-air before CBS Sports takes over for game coverage, and both setups require sets, power, and plenty of paraphernalia to make the show look good. In a cost-saving cooperation between the partner networks, Filmwerks International came up with a solution to support the production and power of both shows with just one truck.

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 9, the students pull off a nearly flawless production.

The Fall Classic is in the Northeast this year and SVG’s fearless editorial director, Ken Kerschbaumer, has oiled his glove and his reporter’s notebook. Ken is on site at Yankee Stadium in New York and Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia to stay current with all of the technology being put in place to broadcast the 2009 World Series, from Fox Sports’ 20 cameras and 70 micorophones to the new TrackMan 3D radar system from ISG. Keep up with Ken K.’s travels on the 2009 World Series Sports Technology Blog: http://sportsvideo.org/main/worldseries09/.

HuskerVision, the video production unit of the University of Nebraska Athletic Department, recently upgraded its HD video production capabilities with the addition of Panasonic HD Studio cameras and P2 HD camcorders. The equipment roster includes four Panasonic AK-HC931B HD studio cameras, two AK-HC1500G 2/3-inch multi-format 1080i/720p HD multi-purpose cameras, as well as five AJ-HPX2000, two AG-HPX300, and two AG-HPX170 P2 HD camcorders.

The University of West Georgia opened the doors to its brand-new University Stadium Wolves football facility in Carrollton, GA, complete with a state-of-the-art video and scoring system designed, manufactured, and installed by Daktronics. The Daktronics LED video display measures approximately 13 feet high by 22 feet wide, and it can operate as one display showing a single large image or be divided into multiple zones.

The NFL's college advisory committee may find it next to impossible to render informed opinions on the readiness of juniors who are potential 2010 draft prospects because the league has been locked in a multi-million dollar standoff with a Boston-area company that produces and disseminates digitized content of NCAA games for eight major conferences, league sources told SI.com.

From stratospheric coaches’ salaries to a growing divide between the haves and the have-nots of college sports, university presidents say they are very worried about the commercialization of intercollegiate athletics. Yet they feel powerless to do much about it, according to a survey of 95 presidents released Monday by the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, a watchdog group.

One of the first major decisions Kirby Hocutt made after becoming Miami's athletic director last year was a round of departmental layoffs, moves that trimmed $1 million from his operating budget. Unpopular moves, for certain, but ones he deemed essential. "Has that alleviated future concerns? It's helped," Hocutt said. "But I wish I could sit here and tell you that things are great. They're not."

The ACC basketball tournament will feel a bit cozier the next time it's in Atlanta. ACC athletic directors have decided to hold the tournament in Philips Arena rather than the Georgia Dome in 2012. The ACC tournament has been held at the Georgia Dome twice –- to great success in 2001, when each session averaged 36,505 fans, and significantly less so last March, when attendance fell to 26,352 per session.

Major college athletics directors are recommending a series of cost-cutting measures that would touch on every sport, including football. The seven-part plan was pitched Monday at the Knight Commission's 20th anniversary meeting by Dutch Baughman, executive director of the 1-A Athletics Directors' Association and came out of his group's annual gathering last month in Dallas.

Four soccer-playing girls on a team of 20 will rupture an ACL over the course of four years. That averages out to one girl every year who will go through reconstructive surgery, rehabilitation and the loss of a season.

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) announced today a partnership with JumpTV to exclusively stream live video and audio for select 2009 NAIA Fall National Championships. These events are included in the live video and audio streaming schedule: 2009 NAIA Men’s Soccer National Championship, 2009 NAIA Women’s Soccer National Championship and the 2009 NAIA Volleyball National Championship.

Atlanta radio station Sports Radio 790 The Zone will provide all on-air content and hosts for CBS Atlanta affiliate WGCL-TV’s newscasts and original sports programming under terms of a deal announced Wednesday, Atlanta Business Chronicle reported. The agreement covers fare including Sportsline, SEC Wrap-Up Show, and CBS Atlanta Dawg Show.

Pollsters believe Kansas can put its distractions aside and dominate the college basketball world. The Jayhawks topped the preseason ESPN/USA Today Top 25 coaches' poll, which was released Thursday. Kansas was also No. 1 in The Associated Press' preseason poll.

University of Michigan president Mary Sue Coleman announced today that the school has received a notice of inquiry from the NCAA on allegations that the football staff violated rules about mandatory training and practice requirements.

The Colonial Athletic Association has released an extensive men’s and women’s basketball television package that includes at least 104 televised contests. In addition, more than 300 CAA games will be available for viewing via the internet this season. The announcement was made during the conference’s Media Day festivities on Tuesday at the ESPN Zone in Washington, D.C.

The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, is widely credited with providing a blueprint for cleaning up many of the problems in college sports over the past two decades.

A fight over the shoes Michael Jordan's son will wear at the University of Central Florida could cost the school as much as $3 million. Freshman guard Marcus Jordan is refusing to wear shoes made by adidas, the brand the university has a contract with for all its sports. He says he will only wear his father's Nike Air Jordan shoes because it holds special meaning to his family.

The NCAA is introducing a streamlined process for all championship bids in all divisions beginning with the next bid cycle. The request for bids, excluding those for the Division I Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championships, the Division I Baseball Championship and the Division I Football Championship, will begin with general and sport-specific bid requirements becoming available on the NCAA Web site December 15.

Texas A&M has been selected to host the 2011 Division I Women’s Golf Championships at the Traditions Golf Club in College Station, Texas, on May 17-20. The Division I Women’s Golf Committee also announced sites for the three regionals for 2011. All three regionals will be May 5-7, 2011.

GameDay Management, Inc (GDM), in conjunction with OhioCollegeFootball.com, will host an annual college football bowl game featuring Ohio’s top college football players, with the first game slated to be played Saturday, April 17, 2010 in Columbus, Ohio at Marv Moorehead Stadium.

Based on its potential for sheer, unpredictable madness, there are few better games each year than Texas A&M vs. Texas Tech. So more’s the pity that the game wasn’t picked up for television Saturday night. If you’re a fan of the Aggies or Red Raiders, though, try to understand the issues at stake. Bill Byrne, A&M’s athletic director, understands, and he’s got considerably more on the line when it comes to such things than me or you.

Creighton University has reached an agreement to play its home baseball games at a new downtown ballpark beginning in 2011. The university struck a deal Tuesday with the Metropolitan Entertainment and Convention Authority to play at TD Ameritrade Park. The MECA board approved a 10-year lease. As part of the deal, the Bluejays will play some home games in 2011 and all of their home games at the Omaha stadium in 2012.

Coaches, college presidents and Indiana's governor joined Wednesday night in a tribute to Myles Brand, the former NCAA president who died last month. Indiana native John Mellencamp also participated in the two-hour remembrance, which drew a crowd of more than 1,000 to Conseco Fieldhouse — the Indianapolis arena not far from the NCAA's headquarters and the office that Brand occupied for a little more than 6½ years.

Avid has joined forces with ABC News in ABC News On Campus — a program designed to give students an opportunity to practice real-world news gathering, production and broadcasting. ABC News On Campus students capture, produce, edit and distribute news stories in their local area, which are often featured across ABC News programs.

The way Chandler Whitmer sees it, he's only extending the duties of a quarterback a little further than usual. On the field, he's used to leading, which is one reason the Downers Grove South (Ill.) High star is ranked as the 20th-best quarterback by ESPNU. Once he committed to the University of Illinois, he began leading in recruiting, too.