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To review: Pitt, Syracuse, and West Virginia are going. Houston, Central Florida, and Southern Methodist are joining, with Boise State, San Diego State, and Navy eventually signing on just for football. And now, per CBS Sports, Memphis is in "the final stages of negotiations" to become an all-sports member in 2013. Which would bring the Big East's total of onetime C-USA members to nine. Annexing Canada must be next. [via] More »
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In 2013, Boise State and San Diego State are joining for football only, while Houston, Southern Methodist, and Central Florida are coming for all sports. CBS Sports, which broke the story, has provided the handy map you see above to display the conference's electoral chances in 2012 clusterfuck of a footprint once it all goes down. The Big East also still plans to hold Pitt, Syracuse, and West Virginia to its 2014 timeframe for withdrawal, though West Virginia continues to give the league the middle finger with both hands over that. [CBS Sports] More »
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It's true that WVU had filed suit first, arguing that the Big East is no longer really the Big East, which is why the school plans to join the Big 12 as soon as next year. Taken together, those moves were seen as a middle finger to the Big East's mandatory 27-month grace period for exiting. But now, to judge by this photo of the WVU basketball team's practice gym, which tipster Brent sent to us last week but we never got around to posting, the Mountaineers appear to have gone ahead and raised their other middle finger, too. More »
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On Friday, West Virginia announced that they're heading to the Big 12, which was a poorly kept secret. So poorly kept that the Big East has been preparing a lawsuit to force them to honor the terms of their agreement: that departing schools must stay in the conference for 27 months before leaving. Today, WVU beat them to the punch, claiming it was the Big East that breached their contract with member schools. More »
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Your morning roundup for Oct. 27, the day we could swear she was trying to break in. Photo via Mocksession. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors. More »
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So much for this. From The New York Times: More »
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Depression is a serious problem, but tying the fight against it to a Wednesday night football game involving two teams from the Big East probably isn't the most ideal marketing strategy. [via @PantherLair] More »
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So much for all of that Big East solidarity talk in the wake of Pitt's and Syracuse's departures. Here it is one month later, and word is out that the Mountaineers have "applied and are accepted" as members of the Big 12. Pete Thamel of the New York Times played it straight by adding this: "The only good news for the Big East is that the Big 12 planned to stay at 10 teams for now, the person said. That will spare the Big East any more critical losses and give it a chance to build into the 12-team model that it would prefer." Left scrambling to keep its space at the BCS trough, the Big East gets to sort through the service academies, Boise State, SMU, Central Florida, Temple, and Villanova. [New York Times; image via @thekeyplay] More »
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Your morning roundup for Oct. 22, the day we realized Jack Daniel's prices are probably going to rise. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors. More »
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Rick Pitino's a New Yorker who made his bones in the Big East, so naturally he's upset about Syracuse's and Pittsburgh's ACC exodus. At Big East media days, he had some harsh words for the Judases: More »
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Well, Colorado is east of Idaho, we suppose. And, hey, Thursday night blue turf on ESPN, within, like, a few years. That's something to look forward to, right? Maybe? Anyone? [USA Today] More »
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Gene DeFilippo, addressing this: "I spoke inappropriately and erroneously regarding ESPN's role in conference expansion." [@PeteThamelNYT] More »
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The folks in Bristol are getting a little defensive over those rather inconvenient comments made by Boston College AD Gene DeFilippo, who said ESPN had influenced the ACC's decision to expand by swiping Pitt and Syracuse from the Big East. An unnamed spokesman for the Worldwide Leader has already issued the requisite denial to the New York Times, but the story has gained such traction since first being published in Sunday's Boston Globe that ESPN felt the need to take its case a step further by completely misrepresenting the statements of two people who had nothing to do with any of it. More »
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Boston College AD Gene DeFilippo, who was part of the ACC's expansion committee that lured Pitt and Syracuse away from the Big East, says something that shouldn't be a big shocker: realignment is about money. But to see it put so blatantly, and to see the four-letter network invoked so unapologetically, well, this is what college sports looks like these days: More »
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Since when did Dave Gavitt become a paragon for all that is harmonious and decent and noble in college sports? Gavitt, who died a week ago today at the age of 73, was the founder and first commissioner of the Big East. And because Pitt and Syracuse have decided to seek higher ground by airlifting themselves to the ACC, there are those who now insist on viewing Gavitt's legacy as some kind of Little Flowers of St. Francis for athletic teenagers, while simultaneously lamenting the world he created. More »
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Because Pitino is the Louisville coach, he's concerned with what Syracuse and Pitt leaving the conference will mean for those left behind. Because Pitino is Italian, he doesn't know how to describe his feelings with anything but a Godfather reference. (Warning: crappy music plays automatically at Pitino's site.) More »
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The NCAA has released their proposed legislation for 2011-2012, a list of bylaw additions and alterations proposed by member conferences. Some are important; others are less so, and they'll all be voted on at the Board of Directors meeting next year, and could go into effect next summer. More »
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Congrats, PR person who just sent this to us: we're talking about your client, though probably not in the terms you'd prefer. Everyone get ready for a lot of former boybander and Jessica Simpson boytoy Nick Lachey in your lives, because ESPN's going to play an awful lot of "Last One Standing" on Saturday. Let's listen to it now! More »
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Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day. More »
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Oh no, we're not done. The Texas League may have settled their little dust up, but Crazy Conference Chatter is not over. The Pac-11 still needs a 12th man and the Big East will apparently take whatever they can get. More »
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Yesterday I landed in Detroit for Thanksgiving. Our first stop upon arriving was an Italian restaurant where my wife's grandmother was celebrating her 80th birthday. I'm standing at the bar watching the the Titans-Jets game on the television and occasionally a sports fan from Michigan wonders by to see what's on the television. Inevitably we'd end up in conversation. If you've ever wondered whether a city and state's teams serve as a reflection of the surrounding economic struggles, come to Michigan. Every dropped pass, every failed fourth down, every mistake is a further sign that the world around Michiganders has come undone. Ask a Michigander which part of the state they're from, they'll extend their hand in front of their face, and instead of pointing to the part of the state on their palm, they slowly extend their middle finger in your direction. These are the questions that the first five fans asked me during the second half of the Titans game: More »
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In keeping with the theme of the day, once the ESPN Thursday night programmer took a shit and put it into his ESPN issued lunchbox (the graphic on the lunchbox was Stuart Scott's lazy eye and the eye followed you when it moved.)Anyway, then the ESPN programmer collected Lou Holtz's spit and mixed it with Doris Burke's used tampon and when he opened up the lunchbox it had turned into South Florida at Cincinnati. Score! Here's your Thursday night preview. More »
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Syracuse recently unveiled a statue of famed running back Ernie Davis. Davis was the first black person to win the Heisman Trophy and starred at Syracuse in the early 1960's. In addition to winning the Heisman Trophy, he was the overall number one pick in the 1962 NFL Draft. But he never played in the NFL. Davis developed leukemia and died in 1963 at the age of 23. So this is a tragic story well-deserving of commendation by Syracuse. Only the designer of their statue goofed...Davis is wearing Nike cleats. Which is bad because Nike's swoosh didn't exist until 1971. Oh boy. More »
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We're rolling through the Top 25 and getting ever closer to kickoff. Just one week from today. John Radcliff brings the West Virginia preview. John blogs about West Virginia at Mountain Lair and writes for FanHouse. More »
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And by "go to college" I mean commit felonies. Well, Mike Detellier has broken down NFL starters by their college conference. And while there is no big surprise, the SEC leads with 137 projected starters, there are some really surprising positional breakdowns. Coming in second after the SEC? Shockingly, BCS whipping boy, the ACC with 121. Followed by the Big Ten with 105, Big 12 with 72, Pac 10 with 70 and the mighty Big East clocked in with a robust 33. Yeah, but Ray Rice is awesome (and not starting)! More »
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On Wednesday, Will told you about a group of pranksters who had successfully crashed some SEC women's basketball coaches' teleconference. On Thursday, Steinz informed the masses that the Big East men's coaches had been hit. On Friday, The Big Lead posted the audio. God, I love the Internets! More »
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Thought we were done previewing things? How could you think that, with your NCAA Basketball Tournament office pool a mere five months away? You've got to start studying now if you want to impress that chick in reception. So who's with me? Let's Gooo! Please send contributions to tips@deadspin.com. More »
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