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• Texas AD: No Talks With Big Ten About Expansion
• By Terrance Harris 2/24/2010 9:40 PM ET
• University of Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds has mostly been quiet as speculation has swirled the past couple weeks that the Big Ten may be interested in the Longhorns if the league expands. ... More »
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• Texas to Big Ten? Commissioner Delany Says That's News to Him
• By Terrance Harris 2/12/2010 5:50 PM ET
• In the first official word from the Big Ten, commissioner Jim Delany told a Chicago radio station Friday that the conference has not contacted any schools about possible expansion. A report came ... More »
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• SEC, ESPN Win Showdown After Comcast's First Ever Reasonable Action
• By Clay Travis 5/22/2009 6:30 PM ET
• What's your No. 1 fear if you subscribe to cable and you're a sports fan? Aside from the signal dying on the first day of the NCAA basketball tournament or on any Saturday or Sunday in the fall, it's ... More »
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• Joe Paterno Carries Very Old Grudges
• By Brian Grummell 8/30/2008 3:21 AM ET
• While enduring the Big Ten Network's "Friday Night Tailgate" tonight, something interesting presented itself. They showed a clip of Joe Paterno at his finest, hosting Penn State's Friday night pep ...
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• SEC Network Not Going To Happen
• By Brian Cook 7/14/2008 2:54 PM ET
• The SEC's television contracts are up and there were plenty of rumors that the conference would look to start up an SEC Network that would be much faster than the Big Ten Network and beat Ohio State ...
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• Time Warner-Big Ten Network Deal Coming?
• By Brian Cook 6/24/2008 4:14 PM ET
• The Big Ten Network's Comcast deal is done, and now there may be a thaw in relations with Time Warner: "I think the fact that the Big Ten Network and Comcast came to an agreement is very encouraging ...
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• Big Ten Network-Comcast Deal Official
• By Brian Cook 6/19/2008 3:50 PM ET
• The long, long, long, long rumored Big Ten Network-Comcast deal is done: Comcast Corporation and the Big Ten Network announced today that they have reached a long-term multimedia agreement for ...
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• Major Catch in Big Ten Network-Comcast Deal?
• By Brian Cook 6/18/2008 8:12 PM ET
• The announcement that Comcast and the Big Ten Network were a week or so away from announcing a carriage deal seemed like a major, major win for the network given the way the Chicago Tribune -- the ... More »
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• Big Ten Network-Comcast Deal to Be Announced This Week
• By Brian Cook 6/16/2008 8:13 AM ET
• Let's have a parade. The Fanhouse has told you this at least thrice before, but here it is again: the Big Ten Network and Comcast are about to make a deal. So says everybody. This one's from the ... More »
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• Big Ten Network, Comcast Near Deal - No, Seriously This Time
• By Brian Cook 3/10/2008 4:18 PM ET
• Is it make the party time for Big Ten fans? In parts of the Big Ten footprint? And such? Right, we've been here before, and before, and before, but now the imprimatur of the Sports Business Journal ...
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• Right, Nevermind About The BTN-Comcast Thing
• By Brian Cook 1/10/2008 1:12 PM ET
• Aaargh, this guy! Why why why, this guy! Yesterday this space highlighted a Chicago Tribune article with hopeful quotes from Big Ten Network president Mark Silverman about a potential deal with ...
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• Big Ten Network, Comcast Close to Deal
• By Brian Cook 1/09/2008 11:14 AM ET
• Oh, we dig up this guy again. Hi, this guy. After months of entrenched World War I-style silence where the only thing that happens is the occasional mustard-gas lob at fans or French farmers, the ...
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• The America Channel Is Coming to a Cable Provider Near You
• By Brian Cook 11/09/2007 9:04 AM ET
• Slapfightin... F-bomb yeah! You might think this Comcast addition is really, really weird given the current slapfighting going on between the Big Ten Network and cable giants: America Channel has ... More »
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• Legislation Could Force BTN-Cable Impasse Resolution, but Probably Not
• By Brian Cook 11/02/2007 2:59 PM ET
• SLAPFIGHTIN! ETC! Most of the time when you see the boxing guy and the italicized "SLAPFIGHTIN! ETC" intro text, it's been more of the same: big four cable providers won't but the BTN on, everyone's ... More »
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• Is The Big Ten Network Eating Into Cable's Bottom Line?
• By Brian Cook 10/23/2007 2:33 PM ET
• Slapfightin' round the world. The Big Ten Network's hard line against cable companies is dragging into the very end of football season; Comcast, Mediacom, Time Warner, and Charter are all holding out ... More »
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• Big Ten Network Will Probably Win in the End
• By Brian Cook 10/16/2007 12:46 PM ET
• Slapfightin', etc. So, right, the Big Ten Network is not on Comcast or Time Warner or Charter and this causes problems if, say, your football team is on said network four times in the first seven ...
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• BTN, Time Warner Can't Even Agree on Whether or Not They're Agreeing
• By Brian Cook 10/12/2007 3:38 PM ET
• Your Big Ten Network-cable slapfighting update. Oh, the infinite wrangling! The Other Paper, a Columbus-based alt-weekly, updates the status of negotiations in the ninth circle of hell; Time Warner is ... More »
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• Big Ten Network Adds WOW
• By Brian Cook 9/28/2007 11:59 AM ET
• Big Ten Network boxin' guy is back with news. As in the cable company, not the exclamation of alarm and surprise: DENVER and CHICAGO – WideOpenWest, the nation's largest alternative cable video ... More »
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• BTN-Comcast Dispute Now With Public Policy Papers; Excitement Reaches Boiling Point(!)
• By Brian Cook 9/11/2007 2:51 PM ET
• Your regular dose of BTN-cable company slapfighting. Think tanks are weird institutions that sit around spitting out opinions on things that have the glossy sheen of coming from someone with an ... More »
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• BTN Picked Up by Dish Network
• By Brian Cook 9/06/2007 9:08 PM ET
• Your regular dose of Big Ten Network slapfighting. Another major carriage agreement for the Big Ten, their second after Insight cable: The Big Ten Network reached an agreement Thursday with DISH ...
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