USA Football Network

A Division of Sports In The USA, Inc.

About Us

Staff

Contact Us

Privacy Policy


Most recent USA Football Network Video Production

June 12, 2010 - New Jersey - 16th Annual Paul Robeson All-Star Classic

Click here to view play-by-play web cast of Robeson All-Star Classic


Week of June 20

 
Villanova wide receiver Matt Szczur donated peripheral blood stem cells to an anonymous one-year old leukemia patient... Versus will broadcast at least three Ivy League games during each of the next two seasons. The 2010 schedule includes games in three consecutive weeks beginning with the Nov. 6 Penn-Princeton game, Nov. 13 Brown-Dartmouth and culminating on Nov. 20 with Yale visiting Harvard... Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly made a $250,000 donation to support Notre Dame's endeavors in research, academics and community engagement... Tim Gleason, commissioner of the Ohio Athletic Conference and former NFF Mike Cleary/Northeast Ohio Chapter president, has penned his first book entitled "From Black to Gold - The Pittsburgh Steelers". The book hits shelves in late July... The Auburn Board of Trustees approved an indoor football practice facility Friday that will feature a much-needed 120-yard field. The facility will be 92,000 square feet... Northwestern State reached an agreement to make adidas the official footwear and apparel sponsor for the entire athletics department beginning in 2010-11... Western Kentucky coach Willie Taggart is the featured interview subject on Kentucky Educational Television's "Connections with Renee Shaw"... "A Cut Above - Portrait of a Football Leader", a one hour documentary featuring Duke coach David Cutcliffe is scheduled to air on Fox Sports South five times this month... The fourth season of "Terrapins Rising", a reality show about the Maryland football program, debuts next month on Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic... Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano and 26 members of the Rutgers football team helped kickoff the 2010 Special Olympics of New Jersey summer games... The Fourth Annual Greg Schiano Charity Golf Classic raised $60,000 which will be donated to two different charities... Illinois has sold out season tickets for the fourth straight season... Several Oklahoma State football players visited St. Francis Children's Hospital in Tulsa on June 17... Washington State coach Paul Wulff helped ring in the salmon season as a celebrity judge at the inaugural "Copper Chef Cook-Off"... Navy head coach Ken Niumatalolo was the guest speaker at Lauren's First and Goal Football Camp for pediatric brain tumor research at Lafayette College... LSU football coach Les Miles joined Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal on a tour of the efforts taking place to protect the Louisiana coastline from the oil spill... Southern Illinois has set a new record for football season ticket sales... Richmond announced Friday that season tickets have been sold out for the 2010 football season... Max Media of Montana announced that Montana State's 2010 football season will be broadcast exclusively in high definition... The Southland Conference Television Network will televise 10 football games using 14 different affiliates in 2010 beginning with the Sept. 25 game between Sam Houston State and Gardner-Webb.

BCS (Division I-A) Pre-Season Predictions

1

Alabama

2

Ohio State

3

USC

4

Boise Stete

5

Oklahoma

6

Florida

7

Nebraska

8

Texas

9

Oregon

10

Virginia Tech

1

Alabama

2

Boise State

3

Ohio State

4

Texas

5

Florida

6

Wisconsin

7

TCU

8

Virginia Tech

9

Oklahoma

10

Iowa

1

Ohio State

2

Oklahoma

3

Alabama

4

Boise State

5

Virginia Tech

6

Florida

7

Wisconsin

8

Oregon

9

Texas

10

Mississippi State

1

Oklahoma

2

Ohio State

3

Alabama

4

TCU

5

Nebraska

6

Boise State

7

Florida

8

USC

9

Miami (FL)

10

Oregon

1

Alabama

2

Ohio State

3

Boise State

4

Miami

5

Florida

6

TCU

7

Nebraska

8

Wisconsin

9

Texas

10

Oklahoma

Meadowlands Stadium gets 2014 Super Bowl

The nation’s premier sporting event is coming to its greatest metropolitan area – and the Giants’ extraordinary new home.NFL owners today (Tuesday) voted to deliver Super Bowl XLVIII to the New Meadowlands Stadium, the glittering 82,500-seat stadium where the Giants and Jets will begin playing their home games this season. The game, which will be played in February 2014, will be the first Super Bowl played in a cold-weather, outdoor venue.
The Giants and Jets co-sponsored the bid – officially entitled “Make Some History”- to bring the Super Bowl to the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area for the first time. The region was selected over competing bids from South Florida and Tampa to host the 2014 Super Bowl..

Supreme Court rules against NFL's exclusive deals

"Although NFL teams have common interests such as promoting the NFL brand, they are still separate, profit-maximizing entiries." ruled the United States Supreme Court when they halted the National Football League's move to gain greater control over its marketing and product deals. The Supreme stated the sports league is made up of 32 separate teams rather than a single entity in a suprisi9ng 9-0 decision that stopped the league's effort to gain an total grip on its control of everything from marketing deals to labor pacts than actual financial damages.
At issue was a lawsuit by American Needle, Inc., a cap maker in Illinois, against the NFL in 2004 after the league in 2001 signed an exclusive deal with Reebock giving the company exclusive rights to manufacture and market the league's caps and apparel for $250 million over 10 years. American Needle sued on the grounds that the exclusive agreem,ent was anti-competitive and the Supreme Court ruled that the NFL was subject to federal antitrust laws.

States

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

Califoronia

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

Football Notes of Interest

All Oregon players will wear specially designed jerseys for their spring game to honor the armed forces at the Duck's spring game on May 1. The jerseys will be given to the troops immediately following the game, while Nike also will donate 5,000 t-shirts, with all proceeds from the sales forwarded to families of deployed troops and returning veterans..
Four Houston games have been picked up by CBS College Sports for the 2010 season. The Houston- Tulane home game on Sept. 25 kicks off the CBS C slate, followed by the non-conference battle with Mississippi State on Oct. 9, as well as the home C-USA with Tulsa on Nov. 13. CBS C also will broadcast the Cougars' Oct. 23 visit to SMU.

Inaugural Pinstripe Bowl set for 12/30/10

ESPN will televise the inaugural Pinstripe Bowl that will be played at Yankee Stadium on Thursday, December 30, 2010 at Yankee Stadium. Thw Bowl, the first to be played in the Northeat since the Garden State Bowl at Giants Stadium in 1981, will match the No. 3 team in the BIG EAST and the No. 6 team in the Big 12, excluding BCS participants. If one of the conferences cannot fill its bowl slot, Notre Dame will be considered.
ESPN agreed to a six-year contract to televise the bowl while New Era Cap Co., Inc., known primarily as the supplier of major league baseball caps, agreed to a four-year deal to be the title sponsor in its most notable venture outside of baseball. "ESPN and New Era Cap give us instant credibility and instant recognition," said Yankee managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner.

Allen (TX) to open 18,000-seat athletic facility in 2012

The residents of Allen will soon have a $59.6 million stadium as the booming north Dallas suburb will break ground on a state-of-the-art, 18,000-seat facility that will feature two decks, a video scoreboard, four concession stands and 12 restrooms. It is scheduled to open in the fall of 2012.
The stadium is part of a larger $120 million bond package passed in May 2009 that included nearly as much money for a state-of-the-art auditorium for performing arts.

Copyright © 1988-2010 sportsintheusa.com

All rights reserved.Content originated by Sports In The USA, Inc. including rankings, all-star teams and reference material, is intended for use by the firm's paying clients. Sports In The USA's network of TV or radio stations as well as print publications may distribute its material in print, broadcast reports and on the Internet. All other usage, including reproduction on other web sites, is strictly prohibited without prior approval of Sports In The USA, Inc. Refer questions or comments via e-mail.