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08.18.05: Talk
1070 touts Pirates, Panthers, new shows ... Fort Worth Bowl
embraces Mountain West, TCU... NYC schools reap windfall
from NCAA-NIT deal |
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08.17.05: Tulsa
inks football coach to long-term pact ... NCAA, NIT
apparently come to terms in lawsuit |
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08.16.05: Carnesecca
takes stand in NCAA-NIT legal clash |
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08.15.05: Mascot
decree has some schools on war path |
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08.14.05: New
sheriff brings law and order to Gatorville |
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08.13.05: List:
2005 College Football Hall of Fame class |
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08.12.05: South
Bend at odds with Hall of Fame over $$$ |
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08.11.05: Dowdy-Ficklen
Stadium among 'shrines' on pigskin 'tour' |
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08.10.05: 'Cock-n-Fire'
offense may stay in holster awhile |
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08.09.05: Radio/TV
station rolling out preseason special on Pirates ... Alleged felons pin
leniency promise on Spurrier |
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08.08.05: Charlotte,
UNC- Wilmington selected to BCA field ... Former Pirates
steer kids toward better FUTURE |
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08.07.05: Texas
Tech's Knight getting real about tryouts ... Stokes' ties to
Wake prodigies sway ECU recruit |
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08.06.05: Stokes'
ties to Deacon prodigies sway recruit ... Holtz: ECU must
make up ground before opener |
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News Nuggets, 08.19.05
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Mountain West tidying up postseason deals
The Las Vegas Bowl will get first pick
of Mountain West Conference teams beginning in 2006 under a four-year
contract extension announced Thursday.
A week ago, the Pac-10 extended its
commitment to the Las Vegas Bowl through 2009. The Pac-10 plans to send its
fourth-place finisher to Las Vegas in 2006 and 2008, and the fifth-place
team in 2007 and 2009.
The bowl will increase its payout to
the Mountain West representative to $1 million in 2006, while the Pac-10
team will get $950,000. The teams are required to purchase 12,000 tickets at
$50 each. Last year each Las Vegas Bowl team received $575,000 and had to
buy 8,000 tickets it could resell.
MWC Commissioner Craig Thompson said
Las Vegas was an attractive site for fans.
``We've clearly heard from our fans
that that's a place they want to go to a bowl game,'' he said.
Bowl director Tina Kunzer-Murphy said
the game won't necessarily feature the Mountain West champion.
``For us, it's really important to have
a little bit of flexibility,'' she said. ``We hope in years to select the
champion. It's a matter of being able to match up the best team, and teams
that travel well and meet attendance requirements.''
This year's game on Dec. 22 will pit
the No. 5 Pac-10 finisher against a Mountain West Conference representative
at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas. It will be televised by ESPN.
Thompson and Kunzer-Murphy said the
bowl might feature the Mountain West champion as early as this year, because
the league's contract to send its champ to face the Conference USA title
winner in the Liberty Bowl in Memphis, Tenn., has expired. Thompson said a
decision could come in November.
The Las Vegas Bowl announcement comes a
day after
the Fort Worth Bowl announced it will
feature one of the top three Mountain West teams from 2006-09. That deal
could allow for new MWC member Texas Christian to play a bowl game at home.
Other Mountain West schools are Air
Force, Brigham Young, Colorado State, New Mexico, San Diego State, UNLV,
Utah and Wyoming.
News Nuggets are
compiled periodically based on material supplied by staff members; data
published by ECU, Conference USA and its member
schools; and reports from Associated Press and
other sources. Copyright 2005
Bonesville.net and other publishers. All rights reserved. This material may not be
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