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WSU Wildcats plan ticket offers for public safety officials

Standard-Examiner staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 6:21pm

OGDEN -- Weber State Athletics has partnered with Swire Coca-Cola of Ogden to offer complimentary tickets to all public safety officials and their families to this week's Weber State men's basketball home games.

All public safety officials with a valid ID will receive up to four complimentary tickets to Thursday night's game against Montana State and Saturday's night game with Montana. Both games begin at 7:00 p.m. at the Dee Events Center.

Present a valid ID at the ticket office at the Dee Events Center.

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$4.5M gift is largest in USU sports history

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, January 6, 2012 - 6:14pm

LOGAN -- Utah State University officials say they've received the largest donation in the athletic department's history when an anonymous donor gave $4.5 million toward a training and conditioning center.

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Pac-12's have-nots to become haves with TV deal

Anne M. Peterson The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 3:16pm

While Friday's Pac-12 championship game is one of the outgrowths of league expansion, the conference's dramatic makeover will really take shape next season.

That's when the Pac-12's $3 billion television deal takes off. Because of equal revenue sharing, each of the league's schools will eventually reap more than $20 million apiece annually from the 12-year contract with Fox and ESPN.

The influx means that the conference's athletic departments that depend on financial help from their universities should someday soon be able to pay their own bills.

But for programs with smaller budgets, like Oregon State, Washington State and Utah, it also means a more level playing field with schools like Oregon, which has a generous booster in Nike co-founder Phil Knight, and USC, which has a self-sufficient athletic department and lots of national TV exposure.

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Financial disparity widening between major-college athlete and regular student

Frank Fitzpatrick The Philadelphia Inquirer

Last updated Friday, November 4, 2011 - 3:41pm

If you are puzzled by the large-scale game of musical chairs underway in the nation's top college sports conferences, here's a simple explanation:

Fourteen billion dollars.

That's the aggregate worth of the five major football leagues' current TV contracts, the fevered pursuit of which has prompted the process of massive conference realignments.

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