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Today's QuoteMACK WITH TACT … “I’ve been planning this speech for 33 years, but right now I don’t really know what to say.” … Texas coach Mack Brown, to his players in the locker room after the Longhorns’ thrilling victory over Southern Cal at the Rose Bowl. … Sports Illustrated, 1-9-06Clips InterviewUniversity of Texas at Tyler Provides Refuge for UNO Basketball Teams ... Clips Editor Nick Infante interviewed Athletic Director and Dean of Student Affairs Dr. Howard Patterson of the University of Texas at Tyler about his school’s kindness in offering safe haven for the University of New Orleans’ men’s and women’s basketball teams.Guest CommentaryGeographically Myopic ... Former Lawrence University lineman Mark Rodman takes aim at yet another bias of the esteemed New York Times.Clips EditorialThe consequences of running up the score ... Clips Editor Nick Infante opines on the after-effects of sports blowouts: the agony (and exultation) of losing (and winning) big. ... posted 12-26-05Monthly Archives |
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AboutPosted 2 January 06 Welcome to College Athletics Clips. Clips is a quick-read website targeting busy college athletics administrators. Clips provides a comprehensive overview of college athletics requiring no more than a short visit by readers. Clips is updated daily and emails are sent twice weekly to subscribers, who can also visit our site at any time for daily updates. Paid subscribers are provided secure passwords to access all current and archived Clips content. OUR MISSION To provide time-starved athletics administrators with a condensation of all relevant college athletics news, plus incisive commentary and related background information. COMPANY PROFILE College Athletics Clips is published by InfaMor LLC, a communications company dedicated to providing specific-interest professional e-publications that are distillations and transformations from the full spectrum of available sources. Clips provides value to our subscribers by delivering abbreviated versions (clips) of news, issues and commentary pertinent to college athletics. ADVISORY PANEL Our Advisory Panel is comprised of respected college athletics administrators:
Kathy DeBoer, former Sr. Associate Athletic Director, Univ. of Kentucky Dan Guerrero, Athletic Director, UCLA Kermit Hall, President, University at Albany Marie Hardin, Assoc. Director, Center for Sports Journalism, Penn State U. Ken Kavanagh, Athletic Director, Bradley University Chris Monasch, Athletic Director, St. John’s University Wright Waters, Commissioner, Sun Belt Conference Jim Livengood, Athletic Director, University of Arizona Russ Simons, Principal; HOK S+V+E; Facility Operations, Evaluation and Analysis Group John Thompson, Athletic Director, North Carolina Wesleyan Robert Zullo, Professor, Sports Management, Mississippi State University
PERSONNEL Nick Infante, Editor, is a communications consultant and freelance writer whose work has been published in several newspapers and magazines. Nick has 20+ years experience in marketing, sales and consumer promotions (a dozen years in the beer business plus confectionaries, sunscreen, footcare products and promotion agencies). Aside from his editorial and marketing experience, Nick’s reservoir of college athletics knowledge derives from his loyalty to alma mater UConn Huskies and insights painstakingly accumulated from having been a hopelessly outmatched 5-foot-7 juco point guard. Mary-Beth Infante, VP- Operations, supervises database management and newsletter project management for a pharmaceutical marketing firm. Although not an athletics participant while a Boston College student, she later ran the New York Marathon in a crimson BC T-Shirt.
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ClipsBlipsBiggest athletics donation ever: Boone Pickens is donating $165 million to the Oklahoma St athletics dept. Ralph Engelstad gave No. Dakota $100 million in ‘98. Nike Chairman Phil Knight gave Oregon over $50 million in the 80s. . . . . . AFCA Coach of the Year winners: D1-A: Joe Paterno (Penn State); D1-AA: Jerry Moore (Appalachian State); D2: Chuck Martin (Grand Valley State); D3: Bob Berezowitz (Wisc Whitewater). . . . . . . . This week’s nomination for coolest coll. athletics name: Yngve Ramstad, U-Rhode Island Faculty Athletic Rep. . . . . . Florida Atlantic U is progressing w. plans for a $120 million, 40,000 seat domed stadium on its Boca Raton campus. . . . . . . 1st signage at UNC’s Smith Center: Wachovia Bank will have virtually the first signs hung since the arena’s 1986 opening. Cost: $9.1 mill over 8 yrs. . . . . . . NAIA Football Coach of the Year: Mike Van Diest of Carroll College (Helena MT), which won an unprecedented 4th straight NAIA nat’l championship. Van Diest is 78-16 at Carroll over seven seasons. . . . . . . New single-season D1 NCAA record: Indiana’s Cyndi Valentin made her 61st straight free throw on Jan. 12. She’s 78-of-82 (95.1%) for the season. Overall D1 record (over two seasons) is 66 by Ginny Doyle of Richmond. . . . . . . . . . . Best TV rating ever: Texas-USC Rose Bowl w. a 21.7 Nielsen rating (35.6 million viewers), best for a national championship game. The Rose Bowl had not had a rating as big since the ‘86 UCLA-Iowa game, which had a 22.7. Last year, the Texas-Michigan game was a 12.4. . . . . . Length of bowl games: Orange (3 OT)- 4:49; Fiesta- 3:45, Sugar- 3:57, Rose- 4:00. Rose Bowl by qtr: 1st- 41:05; 2nd- 58:56; Halftime- 23:01; 3rd- 41:12; 4th- 68:41. The final 6:42 of the game lasted just over 30 minutes. The last 57 seconds needed nearly 13 minutes to complete. . . . . . . Bowl booty: Some of the gifts bestowed on bowl players (per player NCAA limit was increased by $150 to $500 this yr.): MasterCard Alamo Bowl (Xbox 360), Rose Bowl (Sony PlayStation), Nokia Sugar Bowl (customized Trek mtn bikes), Holiday Bowl (iPods), Champs Sports Bowl (Sony Camcorders), Music City Bowl (portable DVD players), Las Vegas Bowl (tkts to Blue Man Group), Hawaii Bowl (Oakley sunglasses). . . . . . Best bowl records: John Robinson, USC / UNLV (8-1); Frank Kush, Arizona St. (6-1); Gene Stallings, Texas A&M / Alabama (6-1); Warren Woodson, Hardin-Simmons / NM St. (6-1); Pat Dye, E. Carolina / Auburn (7-2-1); Dick Crum, Miami (OH) / No. Carolina (6-2); Paul Pasqualoni, Syracuse (6-2); Bud Wilkinson, Okla. (6-2) and Barry Alvarez, Wisconsin (7-3). . . . . . . Wisconsin contract figures announced: Barry Alvarez (now solo AD after dual role as AD / FB coach) to be paid $600,000 ($500,000 fr. UW and $100,000 fr. private funds). New FB coach Bret Bielema’s contract is $750,000 ($350,000 fr. UW). . . . . . Bounceback award?: Indiana State Sycamores went a symmetrical 33-88 over the past 4 seasons (.273 winning pcntg). This year they’re an asymmetrical 8-2. . . . . . Best handle to come out of RI? God Shammgod, ex-Providence star, left school after 2 yrs. Currently playing in Saudi Arabia; has played in Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Poland and China. . . . . . . 10 most powerful women in sports in 2005 (as selected by Dan Weil of FOXSports.com): Maria Sharapova: Russian tennis star, ranked No. 1 for part of the year; Sheila Johnson: co-founded BETV, stakes in the Wash. Mystics, Wizards & Capitals; Annika Sorenstam: Swede golfer, won 10 tournaments; Williams Tennis Sisters: power, athleticism, endorsements; Michelle Wie: $10 mill in endorsements from Nike and Sony; Danica Patrick: 23-yr-old w. 4th-place finish at Indy 500; Donna Orender: WNBA commish; Amy Trask: CEO of Oakland Raiders; Lesa France Kennedy: prez of NASCAR Int’l Speedway Corp.; Donna Lopiano: exec. director of Women’s Sports Foundation . . . . . . . Arms race update: revenues for U-Wisconsin athletics have increased 178% since 1995-’96 . . . . . . . University HS, a Miami “diploma mill” spotlighted in a scathing feature by the NY Times a couple weeks ago, is shutting down. No surprise there . . . . . . . A volleyball home run: American Volleyball Coaches Assn has hired Kathy DeBoer as new exec director. DeBoer - who also serves on the Clips Advisory Panel - spent 23 years in college athletics (18 at U-Kentucky) as a VB coach and administrator. Congrats Kathy. . . . . . . 27 straight: No. 25 Iowa beat Drake for the 27th straight time, 65-60, Tuesday Dec. 20. Drake has not beaten Iowa in Iowa City since 1967. . . . . . . Duke women spanked Ball State 110-24 on Dec. 19. Duke scored the first 23 points. Ball State missed its first 16 shots and its last 11, and shot a woeful 13%. . . . . . . Mount Union (Alliance, Ohio) won its eighth D3 FB title in 13 yrs. They had a 110 game regular season winning streak that ended in 1994. . . . . . . . . . Report from Canada’s Ryerson U: global investment in sponsorships have zoomed from approx. US$500 million in 1982 to an estimated US$28 billion in 2004. . . . . . . . Clips Athlete of the WeekTyler Emmert, QB for Carroll College (Mont.), led the Fighting Saints (14-0) to its 4th straight NAIA football championship, 27-10 over St. Francis (Ind.). He completed 20 of 36 passes for 278 yards and three TDs. Emmert was selected as NAIA Player of the Year honors for the second time in three seasons. He is 74-3 as a starting QB dating to his days at Capital High School in Helena, Mont.What say you?
If you were casting for an actor to play Coach K, who would you pick?
Tom Hanks
Al Pacino Gene Hackman Sean Penn Ray Romano Dennis Hopper Who Am I?Grew up in Milwaukee in the 60s, an avid fan of the Green Bay Packers and Milwaukee Braves. ... One of the first women to become a college AD, at UC, San Diego from 1975-99. ... First woman to become secretary-treasurer of the NCAA (1989-91) ... grad of the University of Wisconsin ... Taught at Tulane and Arizona State. ... Taught and coached at UC-San Diego, then AD in her third year. |
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