When California University of Pennsylvania began looking for a way to enhance its football broadcasts, university President Dr. Angelo Armenti came across the Wavecam system and was intrigued. There was just one wrinkle: the system was currently installed only in indoor environments. That did not prevent Armenti, however, from ordering up a Wavecam system to be constructed in Amundson Stadium. So far, the results have been dramatic.

This week, CBSports.com College Network launched the first of what may be more than 100 university- and college-specific iPhone and iTouch apps. Seven apps are currently available from Apple’s App Store for such schools as North Carolina, USC, Oklahoma State, and Alabama; another 20 are being reviewed by Apple.

Oklahoma State University is about to get into the heart of its dual-sport season, when football overlaps with men’s and women’s basketball. The additional events create not just additional excitement on campus but additional work for the crew that operates the high-definition video boards in Boone Pickens Stadium and the center arena boards in Gallagher-Iba Arena. To handle the crewing and production management for its biggest on-campus events, OSU turned to PMTV.

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 10, a host of unexpected issues derail the crew’s plans for the perfect production.

XOS Digital has announced the debut of a new program to assist nationwide university athletic programs in offsetting digital asset management costs for their valuable sports content. The XOS Vault Donor Program provides a new avenue to generate the funds that will support the implementation of the XOS Vault digital asset management system.

ESPN’s 2009-10 men’s college basketball season will tip off Monday, Nov. 9, with an ESPNU tripleheader beginning at 7 p.m. ET when Isiah Thomas debuts as coach of Florida International at defending National Champion No. 4 North Carolina. That game will be followed by No. 25 Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim going for his 800th career victory when the Orange host Albany at 9 p.m.

ESPNU will televise nearly 80 live events in the month of November. The 77 events will mark the most live events scheduled in a month since the network’s inception. The November lineup will begin with a SWAC women’s volleyball contest featuring Alabama A&M at Jackson State on Wednesday, Nov. 3, at 7 p.m.

If the NCAA opts out early next year from its 11-year, $6 billion contract with CBS for the men's basketball tournament, ESPN would be interested in bidding for the rights to March Madness, said Burke Magnus, ESPN's senior vice president of college sports programming.

With the University of California rocked by an economic crisis, a group of faculty members is calling on the school's athletics department to get its financial house in order and for the school to stop subsidizing the athletics budget.

The nine legislative proposals scheduled for a vote by Division III members at the 2010 Convention are the subject of a series of educational videos produced by the NCAA academic and membership affairs staff. This is the second year that the videos have been offered to help delegates prepare for voting on proposals at the Convention in Atlanta.

The Northeast Conference (NEC) and Pack Network have announced the launch of NortheastConference.TV, the league's new Web-based media platform. NortheastConference.TV will debut on Friday with the webcasts of the NEC women's soccer (live) and field hockey championships (same day tape delay).

Loyola (Illinois) will build a new Intercollegiate Athletics Center near the Joseph J. Gentile Center, the current home for the school’s men’s and women’s basketball teams. The 77,500-square foot building will include locker rooms for each varsity team, training and weight rooms, meeting rooms, new offices for each sport and general athletics administration, and a hall of fame. The $26 million facility should be complete in 2011.

Spokane will be the first city to host the opening two rounds and a regional of the NCAA women's basketball tournament in the same year. The Washington city was one of 16 chosen by the NCAA women's basketball committee on Thursday to host the first two rounds in 2011. Gonzaga will host the first two rounds in its on-campus arena while the regional will be hosted by Washington State at the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena.

The NCAA announced today that Louisiana Tech will serve as the host institution and Shreveport-Bossier City as one of the 16 sites for the first and second rounds of the 2011 Division I Women’s Basketball Championships.

Major-college programs may pay upward of $70,000 to low-to-mid-major Division I opponents for visiting, said Indiana (Pa.) coach Joe Lombardi, a former Pitt assistant. IUP will visit ACC schools Georgia Tech, Maryland and Wake Forest for exhibition games this month, and the total payoff will be significant for the Crimson Hawks' cash-strapped athletics department.

The Boston College Screaming Eagles Marching Band has not traveled this year due to budget cuts in the Athletics Department. "The band program's budget has been reduced to the same extent as every other department at Boston College because of the economic downturn," said David Healey, marching band director, in an e-mail.

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board approved a proposal for a new football stadium at the University of North Texas that is expected to be completed for the 2011 season. A public groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled for Nov. 21, according to a news release.

The University of Houston is commissioning a feasibility study of the renovation or reconstruction of its football stadium. UH has set a Nov. 23 deadline for firms to submit their qualifications to handle a feasibility report on six different plans involving Robertson Stadium.

After its win Friday, Coppell celebrated its second straight playoff berth. The players had more reason to cheer when they heard where they would play their first playoff game: Cowboys Stadium. "After we won to clinch it, I told them," Coppell coach Joe McBride said. "Needless to say, they were pretty excited."

There's been plenty of stumping and spinning this week that had nothing to do with Tuesday's elections. About a month before the final Bowl Championship Series standings are released, some college football programs have cranked up their campaigns. In the Iowa caucus, the sports information department went on the offensive, e-mailing sports reporters about the Hawkeyes' strength of schedule.

Mass Communication students from Middle Tennessee State University will step on the national stage of collegiate athletics this weekend when they will produce, direct and provide on-field talent for a live telecast of the MTSU-Florida International football game on Saturday afternoon at 3:30 pm. It will air on both ESPN360.com and ESPN GamePlan.

The Atlantic Sun Conference and Comcast/Charter Sports Southeast (CSS) announced the schedule of televised women’s basketball contests with all 11 member schools appearing at least once during the seven-week programming schedule.

There was a time once when the University of Chicago was known for something other than economics and eggheads. A century ago, Chicago was one of the kings of college football. Legendary coach Amos Alonzo Stagg prowled its sidelines. Seldom did Chicago even play road games. Foes came to the South Side because the paycheck was too good.

The Avella High Eagles were preparing to play Clairton, one of the best small-school football teams in the state. It was senior night. A pep rally was held in the gym. Apathy and attrition nearly ended the program a year ago. It was against Clairton that the Eagles were down to 10 players. Clairton took a 50-0 halftime lead and won, 56-0.

Wichita's new Intrust Arena has been selected as a site for the first two rounds of the women's NCAA Tournament in 2011. Wichita is one of 16 cities to be picked for the early rounds. Wichita State University will serve as the host.

The NCAA moved Thursday to clean up a college basketball recruiting environment that Big Ten Conference commissioner Jim Delany said had reached the point of "chaos." The association's Division I board of directors endorsed a series of measures designed to clamp down on the funneling of money to prospects' handlers and other associates, prohibiting schools and college coaches from paying them consulting fees, employing them at camps and clinics and giving them specialized, noncoaching jobs, among other things.

The Big 12 Conference announced today that it has entered into agreements with the Dallas Football Classic and Eagle Bank Bowl for the 2010-13 seasons. Under the agreement terms the Big 12 is guaranteed a spot in the Dallas Football Classic for the 2010 and '12 seasons; and the Eagle Bank Bowl in 2013.

A fight over the shoes Michael Jordan's son will wear at the University of Central Florida has cost the school any future sponsorship with Adidas. "The University of Central Florida has chosen not to deliver on their contractual commitment to Adidas," company spokeswoman Andrea Corso wrote in an e-mail.