Barking Carnival

in the final Learfield Sports Director’s Cup D-1 Standings.
It’s the award that is given annually to the best overall collegiate athletics program. Actually, its proper name should be the Cardinal Director’s Cup since Stanford has won the award 15 years in a row.
The Director’s Cup, run by the National Association of College Directors of [...]

The final game of the best 2-of-3 series for the College World Series Championship may not have been close, but the buildup was good enough to give ESPN three of the four highest-rated CWS games ever.
The three-game series for the National Championship grew in numbers with each game, until it averaged just under 2.8 million [...]

The NCAA, the defenders of all that is pure and clean about collegiate athletics has decided to get into the ticket-scalping business.
The NCAA has entered into a deal with Ticketmaster to create TicketExchange which competes with online resale sites such as StubHub, Craigslist, eBay and others. Sellers set their own prices on the Ticketmaster-run Web [...]

Texas Burnt Orange continues to have a green tint to it as the Longhorns generated the most football revenue and total athletics revenue in 2007-08.
Texas took in almost $73 million in football revenue during the 2007-08 school year, as well as a total of $120.3 million in total dollars.

Texas was one of only three [...]

J.C. Watts, a former Sooner QB is a legislative shill for the BCS.

Joe Barton wants a D-1 college football playoff.
Unlike most others who feel that way, Barton thinks he can do something about it. Barton, who went to A&M, is a representative in the U.S. House, and he has introduced three bills aimed at doing away with the BCS.
Barton is also the ranking Republican on [...]

Scipio has already lamented over the lack of holding calls in the Big 12 and how it seems to an a league decision to add zip to the offense.
At last week’s spring meetings, the Big 12 announced that they would be distributing a record $130 million in revenue to it’s members. That almost a 15% [...]

Over the past 40 years, the concept of a student-athlete representing his college in athletics has been reshaped until their were two new categories:
Revenue sports (football & men’s baskeball)
Everything else.
The Congressional Budget Office recently looked at the big-time athletics programs at NCAA institutions and decided that the connection between those programs and their Universities is [...]

The NFL Network settled its fight with Comcast Cable today, giving the channel a huge boost in potential viewers.
Comcast, the nation’s largest cable outlet, started the fight in 2006 when it moved the NFL Network off its basic digital tier to the more expensive sports tier. The NFL Network wanted to boost is price from [...]

Kornheiser says he hates to fly, and there were too many cross-country trips for him.
His replacement?

Ex-Bucs Coach Jon Gruden.

Out of the six BCS conferences, only the Big East has a worse overall regional TV package than the Pac 10 (The Big 12 is barely better). Thanks to the current economic climate the Pac 10 is looking to add to its revenue stream by starting its own regional network.
According to 2007 Internal Revenue Data, [...]

Bud Shrake was one of a stable of writers for Sports Illustated when the feature article was the best part of the magazine.
I thought this feature would give those weren’t around then a taste of Shrake’s ability. Here is one Texas legend on another.

And we lost one of the best damn sportswriters Texas ever knew.
Bud Shrake was one of the last of the dying breed that Scipio writes about in this post
Bud Shrake, Gary Cartwright, Blackie Sherrod, Dan Jenkins, Dan Cook, Mickey Herskowitz, Jack Gallagher, Dave Cambell and Lou Maysel.
These were my childhood heroes. These were wordsmiths [...]

Mountain West Commissioner Craig Thompson made his case yesterday for a BCS playoff system at the annual BCS Commissioners Spring Meeting. Thompson basically wants a “Mini March Madness,” where a selection committee picks 8 teams for a playoff using the four major bowls.
The concept has as much chance of getting a serious look from the [...]

Well here we are, inhabiting this Brave New Digital World, full of Blogoshpheres, Plugins, Links, RSS feeds, trackbacks, pingbacks, and a different brand of new media every week to help Gen X keep its ADHD addled minds abreast of every new technical wizardry that comes down the test tube.
Of course Barking Carnival seemlessly slid down [...]

Vince Young spoke to the media last night after playing in a charity basketball game and said he plans to stay focused and out of the spotlight.
Young made his first public statement after joining several Tennessee Titan teammates in a charity game on the Tennessee State campus. Young said he just wants to be a [...]

Harry Kalas and Merle Harmon, two longtime big-league broadcasters died this week.
Kalas, the voice of the Philadelphia Phillies for almost 40 years was also the voice of NFL films after the legendary John Facenda. The passing of Kalas brought out many tributes from other reporters.
Kalas broke into broadcasting while in the military and stationed out [...]

The boys up in Norman are having a good time watching the Texas fan base get all stirred up over an * as well as some  pay raises
But Bob Stoops just says it’s no big deal because I know where the trophy is.

John Calipari’s move to Kentucky leaves the Arizona position as the next prize on the job opening list, and according to Arizona sources, they are close to taking Jeff Capel away from OU.
Capel, only 34, is 148-74 as a head coach at the D-1 level, including a 69-33 record at OU.

OU went 30-6 with an [...]

Tiger Woods captured his first PGA event Sunday in almost nine months after recovering from knee surgery. And it was CBS and the NCAA Elite Eight that took a hit to the ratings kneecap as a result.
Woods dramatic birdie on the last hole sealed the win at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, and it also helped [...]