Collegiate athletics

ACC Football Season opens September 1 on XM channels 190 and 191

Aug. 21, 2007, Greensboro, N.C. and Washington, D.C. -- ACC football fans are gearing up for the start of the 2007 season, and XM Satellite Radio is getting ready to launch its fourth season of broadcasting ACC games to fans live across the continental United States.

XM will kick off the ACC football season on September 1, starting at 12:00 noon ET when Virginia Tech hosts East Carolina (XM channel 190) and Miami hosts Marshall (XM channel 191).    » read more »

Communications staff adds Sadler as Associate Director and promotes Todryk to Assistant Director

Aug. 22, 2007 -- Big Ten Commissioner James E. Delany today announced that LaTonya Sadler has been named the Associate Director of Communications while Valerie Todryk has been promoted to Assistant Director of Communications. Sadler will begin her tenure at the Big Ten on Aug. 27 while Todryk will fill her new position beginning on Sept. 1.    » read more »

AT&T blue room to Feature Interactive E-Card Messaging for Sports Fans

San Antonio, Texas, August 22, 2007 -- Forget the team jerseys, bumper stickers and bobble-head dolls. AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) has announced a way for sports fans to champion their team spirit via their computers. AT&T Mascot Mail allows fans to create and send personalized, animated messages to friends. The messages use visual and audio features specific to a fan's favorite team mascot.    » read more »

- Time Warner Cable of New York and New Jersey to Offer ESPNU to More Than One Million Digital Customers Just in Time for College Football Season
- College Sports Network To Reach 20 Million Households Nationwide

August 21, 2007 -- ESPNU, the 24-hour college sports network, named Lowell Galindo as its new signature anchor. Galindo will anchor ESPNU's studio programming from Charlotte, N.C., headquarters of ESPN Regional Television (ERT) which handles the primary production responsibilities for ESPNU. His assignments will include hosting stand-alone specials and studio shows such as SportsCenterU, ESPNU Inside The Polls, ESPNU Coaches Spotlight and ESPNU Recruiting Insider.    » read more »

An Atlantic Coast Conference record 2,710 athletes posted 3.0 or better GPAs in the past academic year.

Aug. 13, 2007, GREENSBORO, N.C. - The 51st annual Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Academic Honor Roll, noting academic excellence by student-athletes for the 2006-07 school year, was released today by Commissioner John D. Swofford.    » read more »

2008 Men's College World Series Ticket Price Increase of $1 is Approved

Tuesday, August 14, 2007, INDIANAPOLIS---The 2008 Men’s College World Series® will start on Saturday, June 14, with the first game of the MCWS Finals beginning on Monday, June 23, under a new schedule announced by the NCAA® Division I Baseball Committee. The new schedule has the MCWS concluding on Tuesday, June 24, or Wednesday, June 25.    » read more »

INDIANAPOLIS, Wednesday, April 18, 2007 --- The NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Committee is pleased to announce the following sites for regional competition of the 2007 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Championships: The Stephen C. O'Connell Center in Gainesville, Florida; the Rec Hall in University Park, Pennsylvania; Maples Pavilion in Stanford, California; and the University of Wisconsin Field House in Madison, Wisconsin.    » read more »