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I know we all hate those analogy questions that probably brought our overall SAT score down a notch or two, but here is a good one – I promise.
Green is to St. Patrick’s Day as your school colors are to: ____?
Correct Answer: College Colors Day!
The Collegiate Licensing Company, or CLC, is running a promotion called [...]

USC’s head coach, Tim Floyd, announced his retirement yesterday.  There are many legitimate and relevant roads I could take a nice, Sunday drive through for this blog post, but that’s no fun. So, seeing as I have a knack for relating everything that happens in the sports world back to a team I love, I [...]

For the past few years I’ve particpated in a March Madness pool powered by CBSsports with a bunch of people local to Silicon Valley.  They are great people - goofy at times (as proof is our Mascot pictured above) - and each year we have a lot of fun tearing into each other on the [...]

The success of CBSSports.com’s live streaming of every NCAA Tournament game has been well documented.  They released their final tally and the results are impressive:

8.6 million total hours of video streaming - 75% increase over 2008
7.52 million visitors - 58% increase over 2008
2.8 million clicks of the BOSS button

The surge in online traffic is certainly [...]

The North Carolina Tar Heels, the largest college basketball fan community for FanSection, rolled over Michigan State on Monday night 89-72 to win the 2009 National Championship.  Unfortunately for CBS, the blowout made the game the lowest rated final in ever.
Overall, 17.6 million viewers tuned in and the broadcast achieved a 10.8 household rating - [...]