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Sports drinks banned from students at california .....read complete article at...

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Division II sports finally getting some love

I am a little bias because I go to Grand Valley State University( a division II school). We have been dominant for many years in collegian athletics. NCAA division II sports are no longer filled with second class athletes. In most cases athletes had the opportunity to play Division one and chose not too because of a variety of reasons. Anything from reoccurring injuries, causing them to transfer down, to getting in trouble off the field also causing them to move to Division II. Or maybe they just wanted to play right away. Regardless of the reasoning, many Division II amateurs are still great talents and enjoyable to watch. It's about time a big network like CBS air a few of their games.

check out CBS and Division II's TV partnership for the upcoming seasons (featuring my GVSU Lakers) .....http://tinyurl.com/2vma77p

FSU attempts to remind fans they care...

In recent years Florida State University's football team has not lived up to its legendary name. Over the past 3 seasons they have posted a 24-15 record. That may not be bad to a average program but to Seminole fans its just not good enough. Well FSU is beginning a new era in 2010, after releasing Hall of Fame coach Bobby Bowden new head coach Jimbo Fischer reestablish the Seminoles as a acc powerhouse. But FSU needs to get long time ticket holders and fans aboard, which could be especially difficult after letting their great Bobby Bowden go. How shall they do that? They have came up with a very personal and complex marketing campaign they began implementing in April. I believe their going in the right direction, and with the new coach, and marketing campaign fans will be reassured FSU still cares.

http://tinyurl.com/ydcqoml

Big Ten plus one, two, six?

In many recent reports there has been speculations of the big ten considering adding a team or more to their conference. These were first just rumors but recently Big ten commissioner Jim
Delany publicly expressed the idea of additions and even gave a time line of 12-18 months. It makes sense, college sports are profit maximizers and continue to expand into new markets. In this case some of the teams the big ten has expressed interest include: missouri, syracuse, pittsburgh and rutgers. These east coast schools would potentially bring in fans from the massive New York market to the big ten. But the big ten is being careful, they don't want to expand if an expansion cost won't create more revenue. As of now that desired revenue is around $22 million per team added espn. com reports. Interestingly enough the big ten will also require a $5 million loyalty clause fee from any big east team if this deal actually happens. I'm not even sure if a league fee is legal at the college level. The NCAA is becoming more profit minded every year, they are a business who has an extremely high untaxed revenue every year, yet in the big tens opinion they don't make enough. We will see what happens in the next year and a half but theres not a doubt in my mind the big ten will add a team if not multiple teams to ultimatly increase their revenue as a conferencce.

Miami heat.....

Interesting story I heard on sports-center this week. Reports say Miami owners and team management want to schedule less games at home in the beginning of the season due to the heat. They think fans in fact hate the high temperatures at the early season home games and this would make fans happy. But this seems like a extremely poor business decisions (if they actually did this) because ticket sales and filling up the stadium is a big part of their revenue. And as one analyst pointed out in Miami some consumers come to games just for social purposes. For example you might see a celebrity such as part owner Jennifer Lopez. Decreasing the number of home games will limit these fans opportunities as a whole to go to games(no matter what their reason is for going) and decrease your maximum profit potential. I don't know what the management team in Miami is thinking, It's Miami shouldn't fans expect it to be hot.

Block party

As I've said many times before women sports do not get enough recognition. This time of the year although there are two NCAA championship basketball tournaments only one is religiously followed. Lucky for the womens tournament many fans are no longer interested in watching the men due to the large number of upsets this year. The average fan doesn't know who butler is and hates Duke. So this is the womens time to shine. Thanks to a young lady named Brittney Griner who plays center for Baylor people are beginning to talk. The 6ft 8in freshman phenom has put up monster numbers this tournament forcing the sports world to notice. She has 36 blocks through 4 games and is practically averaging a triple double in points, rebounds, and blocks. Watching five minutes of Baylor's elite game against Duke I couldn't help but be entertained. Anytime a Duke player went into the paint their shot was altered or rejected by Griner. This is exactly what the NCAA women tourney needed star power. Accompany that with Uconn's win streak and viewer ratings could go up any maybe even compete with the mens tournament this March.

Mad month of march

As we all have waited the past 11 months the time has finally come. The most sacred and exciting sporting event on the planet. Everyone gets involved when it comes to the mens college basketball championships. But the excitement is in fillingout the brackets, attempting to be perfect or at least be better than your friends. The tv ratings for the NCAA on cbs are rediculous every year because everyone wants to see drama, a cinderella story unfold. But is this really true? It happens year end and year out, some little team from nowhere beats a powerhouse and we fall in love with them. Usually its one team, not this year the little guys are knocking out all the heavy favorites. In only 3 days kansas, georgetown, and villanovas championship hopes have ended(to name a few). 56% of america picked Kansas to win it all, them no longer playing could cause many people to lose interest in the rest of the tournament and not really want to watch anymore. So we must be careful what we wish for. We want the drama of a cinderella story, but maybe not so much when they knock out everyones favorite team.