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After a 66-game sprint in a four-month span, the NBA has reached its postseason and many teams are already marred by injuries. The heavy schedule and lack of off-season preparations seem to be taking their toll on key players. No team was hit harder by this wave of injuries than the No. 1 overall seed Chicago Bulls.
Nearly a year ago to the day Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig assigned an MLB representative to oversee the day-to-day operations of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The move came as a measure to remove Frank McCourt as owner due to financial irresponsibility over the past seven years, and to protect the club’s best interest.
The state’s critiquer-in-chief, the Sunset Advisory Commission, issued its verdict on the state’s chief higher education overseer — and the results weren’t pretty.
Late last month, the commission issued a report that skewered the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for its institutionalized mismanagement and isolated approach to policy decisions.
Houston will play host to basketball’s biggest stars for the second time in seven years, having been selected to host the 2013 NBA All-Star Game, the league announced Wednesday.
While speaking before 4,000 school officials at the Texas Association of School Administrators’ midwinter conference, Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott said that standardized testing in Texas public schools has become a “perversion of its original intent,” according to The Texas Tribune.
NEW YORK — NBA players delivered a resounding but risky response to one more ultimatum from NBA Commissioner David Stern: See you in court.
The players’ association rejected the league’s latest proposal for a new labor deal Monday and began disbanding, paving the way for a lawsuit that throws the season in jeopardy.
Negotiating went nowhere, so now the union is going away.
And Stern said “nuclear winter” is coming.
USC’s Lane Kiffin fined $10K for criticizing refs last game
ST. LOUIS — Game 6 of the World Series was postponed Wednesday because of a wet forecast, delaying the Texas Rangers’ bid to clinch their first championship.
Major League Baseball announced the decision about four-and-a-half hours before the Rangers and St. Louis Cardinals were set to play. At the time, no rain had fallen at Busch Stadium, but heavy precipitation was expected.
Texas leads the Series 3-2. Game 6 was rescheduled for Thursday night at 8:05 p.m. EDT. If Game 7 is necessary, it will be played Friday night.
As tuition continues to rise and employment continues to fall, many UT students are aware of the classic catch-22 of financial aid. Middle class families often do not qualify for basic federal loans but still struggle to pay tuition. The Hinson-Hazelwood student loan program has helped middle class students in Texas fund their educations for decades, is self-funded and costs nothing to taxpayers.
DALLAS — If it were all about maximizing revenue, the Big 12 as it had existed until two years ago may have been saved, said former Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe.
“If they had done what I had advocated for two years ago, then I don’t think any of the institutions, including Nebraska or Colorado would have had any reason to cite the reasons they did to leave,” Beebe said.
Earlier this week the Big 12 Conference took a major step toward preserving conference stability with a new revenue-sharing plan that grants each member school equal rights to revenue generated in Tier I and II football and basketball games. While there are now only nine teams that compose the “Big 12,” the conference board of directors all voted in favor of equal sharing of Tier I and II television revenues. It’s a move that some schools within the conference have been waiting years for, and has other schools fleeing to conferences with plans like this in place.
Big 12 university leaders agreed to equally share the wealth from the conference’s most lucrative television deals if its members agree to lock those top-tier TV rights into the league for at least six years.
The league’s announcement Monday was an encouraging sign for the long-term health of the conference, but it is no done deal.
Missouri is considering leaving the Big 12, possibly for the Southeastern Conference, and the university’s board of curators is scheduled to meet today in St. Louis.
On September 22, 2011, Dan Beebe stepped down from his position — which he had held for four years — as Big 12 Commissioner. On Tuesday, 79-year-old Chuck Neinas, a veteran in the world of college sports, will officially assume the title as interim commissioner of the Big 12 Conference.
Commissioner Mike Slive tried to temporarily quell the “enormous speculation” about whether — or more likely when — the Southeastern Conference will add a 14th member to join Texas A&M.
Slive said Tuesday, a day after festivities welcoming member No. 13, that the SEC presidents and chancellors are not currently considering any other schools for admission and that Texas A&M was the only one to submit an application. He reiterated that he anticipates having just 13 members in 2012-13.
The Board of Regents gave President William Powers Jr. the authority Monday to make any necessary decisions to align the University with the sports conference that will best suit its future needs. Since Texas A&M signaled that it will leave the conference next year, the Big 12 has started to look more like the Nervous 9, as it fired commissioner Dan Beebe on Thursday. Indeed, the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University are courting other conferences, while Baylor is publicly threatening to sue to keep the conference together. The mood is chaotic.
Well, the Big 12 is going to stay alive, but Dan Beebe’s time as conference commissioner has come to an end.
Beebe fell on the sword for the Big 12 on Thursday, stepping down as commissioner in order to appease Oklahoma University, which said it would remain in the conference as long as there was a new commissioner in charge.
Mack Brown may get what he wants after all.
Never has college football seen such a whirlwind in conference realignment. Yes, beloved conferences have been disbanded over the years, such as the classic Southwest Conference (1914-1996), but nothing at this accelerated pace. Last year, Nebraska and Colorado bid farewell to the Big 12, and now the conference is on the brink of extinction with Texas A&M’s imminent departure.
Wildfires continue to spread across Texas
“These fires are serious and widespread, and as mean as I have ever seen, burning more than 1,000 homes since this wildfire season began.”
— Gov. Rick Perry in a press release Tuesday after taking an aerial tour of wildfire damage in Steiner Ranch.
At some point, Texas A&M seems destined to end up in the Southeastern Conference, whether Baylor or any other member of the Big 12 likes it or not.
Then the focus will turn to Oklahoma. The Sooners leadership, clearly feeling a bit left out with the Aggies and their rivals at Texas hogging all realignment spotlight, have made it clear that they’re not about to be “wallflowers” in this high-stakes game of musical chairs.
[Updated at 9:08 a.m.,name of Bastrop center]
Fires continued to burn across Texas on Tuesday, creating chaos some believe will justify declaring a natural disaster.
Bastrop County officials said at a press conference Tuesday evening that Federal Emergency Management Agency representatives are currently reviewing requests to declare the area a natural disaster.
“I feel sorry for some schools that will have to scramble to find a place. We won’t. I trust DeLoss [Dodds], and I trust Bill [Powers]. I can’t sit around and worry about things I can’t control. I know where we’re going to be this weekend.”
Just days before the 2011 season officially begins, the Longhorns have already suffered a tremendous loss.
Texas A&M is officially leaving, having sent a letter of withdrawal to Big 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe on Wednesday. Conference prestige and the state’s best rivalry will follow the Aggies out the door, gone for good.
The Big 12 is nearly 18 — about as old as the freshman class that stepped on to the Forty Acres this fall. If it were an incoming college student, it seems like it would flunk out before making it to its sophomore year.
Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin has already said that a departure from the Big 12 would take time.
On Thursday, he announced another step in what many believe is Texas A&M’s steady march to leave the league and, perhaps, join the Southeastern Conference. The school formally notified the Big 12 that it is considering leaving and wants to know the process if it does.
