May Smaller Conferences Look at Expansion to Help Offset Fuel Costs?

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May Smaller Conferences Look at Expansion to Help Offset Fuel Costs?
The Dagger found this 10/6/2008 on ncaabasketball.fanhouse.com (flag)
I was reading an article in my Sporting News magazine (yes, I still get the print one) about the plight of Hawaii's athletic program. Due to the rising fuel costs, it is difficult for them to (a) get to road games and (b) get anyone to fly out to play them. The article threw it out there that ... (link)

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Could the price of gas restructure college hoops?
Published 10/6/2008 by Eamonn Brennan at The Dagger
File this under the little economic stories you don't see coming: Via FanHouse, the Sporting News has a story in the print edition of this month's magazine (which, after further review, was printed about a month ago on Sporting News's site), that makes an interesting point: Thanks to fuel costs, Hawaii -- located a few thousand miles away from the mainland -- is having trouble affording to fly to meet opponents. Maybe even worse, it's struggling to find opponents of its own: "We're scrambling," says Carl Clapp, associate ...