rivals.yahoo.com - 11/18/2008
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NEW YORK (AP)—Bowl Championship Series games will move to ESPN starting in January 2011. The network and the BCS announced a new four-year contract Tuesday. ESPN outbid Fox, which is paying $80 million annually to broadcast the games from 2007-10. ESPN’s offer was for $125 million a year, ...
sports.espn.go.com - 11/18/2008
bizoffootball.com - 11/19/2008
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bizoffootball.com —
ESPN has reached an extensive agreement with the
Bowl Championship Series (BCS), granting exclusive TV, radio, digital,...
international and marketing rights for 15 BCS games from January 2011 through January 2014. It includes the Fiesta, Orange and Sugar Bowls each season and the BCS National ...
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ESPN and BCS Reach Four-Year Agreement
usatoday.com - 11/18/2008
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All Your Sporting Events Are Belong To Bristol
Signal to Noise —
I am of two minds on Fox basically ceding the contract to broadcast the BCS to the Four-Letter. There are two sapproaches to note: the first is the quality of hte production, the second is what it means in a journalistic sense. Several of ESPN’s regular cadre of college football analysts calling for a playoff, but first, ...
Underoolinks
Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician —
... time, DOCTOR Gross has enough time to make the right choice...Daily Orange
You can pretty much rule out Virginia Tech DC Bud Foster from consideration...D.O. Sports Blog
Reactions from a firing...Orange44
Don't look ahead, BB fans. SU's next opponent, Oakland, just upset Oregon...D.O. Sports Blog
Will there be enough PT for everyone on the BB team?...Cuse Country
Get ready for the BCS on ESPN...Yahoo!
Projecting where Big East teams will go bowling...Brain ...
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