By James A. Lyons
By arming the rebels, we're aiding al Qaeda
The Southeastern Conference's basketball tournament is ready to settle down.
Alabama coach Nick Saban has a strong _ and seemingly solitary _ stance on the Southeastern Conference potentially moving to a nine-game league schedule.
SEC commissioner Mike Slive said Thursday the SEC network will produce 1,000 live events each year, including 450 televised on the network and 550 distributed digitally.
The Southeastern Conference and ESPN on Thursday announced a 20-year agreement to operate a SEC network that is scheduled to debut in August, 2014.
Now that the guys putting together the College Football Playoff have determined where the games will be played, there's only one major item left on the agenda _ and it just might be the most important piece.
The long-awaited announcement of the Southeastern Conference network is days away.
There is no end in sight, not for Alabama or the Southeastern Conference.
After decades when paying college athletes was thought to violate the spirit of amateurism, the enormous television revenue generated by sports _ football and basketball in particular _ and the long hours of work by the players have changed the debate.
After decades when paying college athletes was thought to violate the spirit of amateurism, the enormous television revenue generated by sports _ football and basketball in particular _ and the long hours of work by the players have changed the debate.
Roy Kramer remembers all the fretting when the Southeastern Conference launched its own championship game two decades ago.
The Superdome in New Orleans will be the site of the new marquee bowl matching the Southeastern Conference and Big 12, and the game will still be called the Sugar Bowl.
A BCS championship game without a Southeastern Conference team?
Southeastern Conference Commissioner Mike Slive has unfinished business and he isn't leaving what has lately become college football's penthouse anytime soon.
The best way to determine a major college football champion seemed so obvious to so many for so long. Just have a playoff.
Playoffs and tournaments long have determined champions of every college sport from baseball to bowling.
"What I'm looking for is a decision that's in the long-term best interest of the Southeastern Conference," commissioner Mike Slive said.
Slive says, "We've been very successful with our permanent site in football in Atlanta. We've been very successful in our permanent site in Hoover (Ala.) in terms of baseball, so the ADs felt it was time for us to explore the possibility of a primary site for the men's basketball tournament."
