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Big Ten Announces Multi-Billion, Multi-Network TV Deal
The Big Ten Conference announced today that it has reached distribution agreements with CBS, FOX, NBC, and NBCUniversal's Peacock. The breadth of new partners, in addition to Big Ten Network (BTN) and FS1, will place conference football, women’s an...

Force Plates A Force in Athlete’s Rehabilitation & Training
Force plates are used in testing and training to help people achieve their performance goals while avoiding injury. They use sensors to detect differences in forces exerted onto the ground that therapists may not be able to see with the naked eye. ...

Mizzou Launches Innovative Ticket Sales Opportunity For Student-Athletes
The outbound ticket sales staff for the University of Missouri Department of Athletics just increased in size exponentially thanks to an innovative sales initiative that will benefit all MU students as well as enhance the home gameday atmosphere for ...

Gators Football Unveils Heavener Football Training Center
The Florida Gators football program got a sneak preview of their brand new $85 million Heavener Football Training Center over the weekend. The Gators entered the 142,000-square foot, $85 million Heavener Football Training Center, a facility the sc...

IV Nutrition Becoming the Norm for Athletes, Despite Any Evidence It Works
Intravenous (IV) nutrition, which used to be considered a treatment of "last resort," is threatening to become the norm for competitive athletes, despite no scientific evidence that it works or that it is safe, warn experts in an editorial, published...

Vanderbilt Using Motion Capture Technology to Assess Movement Patterns
It starts as persistent and irritating pain in the foot or lower leg, then it gets more intense, maybe with swelling, and soon a runner knows she’s being sidelined by one of the most common running injuries: a stress fracture. These tiny cracks in ...

Michigan Hockey Parts Ways with Coach Mel Pearson
The University of Michigan men's hockey team will no longer be coached by Mel Pearson. Last Friday, Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel said the decision "has been weighed heavily and for some time," according to a report from the Associated P...

DI Board of Directors Adopts Student-Athlete Benefit Legislation
The Division I Board of Directors adopted the first group of Transformation Committee recommendations aimed at allowing schools to provide more benefits to student-athletes. While generally supportive of elements of the transfer package, the board to...