A Temple Basketball and Football Blog // Est. 2010 
It’s official. A joint statement between the new Big East and the artists formally known as the BIG EAST was just released that cemented something we all knew was inevitable: the Catholic 7 are taking the name and the rights to a conference tournament in Madison Square Garden “I am pleased that this [...]
ESPN is reporting that an announcement will be made sometime today confirming something that we all figured was going to happen – the Catholic 7 will be leaving the (old) Big East this summer to start the (new) Big East. The seven schools will depart on June 30 and will [...]
ESPN is reporting that the Catholic 7 will break off and form a new Big East with Xavier and Butler in time for next season. The Big East’s seven departing Catholic schools are expected to start their own league next season and will keep the Big East Conference name, sources [...]
There has been lots of talk the last few days about the Mike Aresco led Big East selling the name of the conference to the Catholic 7. It sounds like the Catholic schools are trying their damnedest to get out of the league after this season. So says ESPN.com’s Andy Katz: [...]
Some more details about the Big East’s television package came to light last night after league sources disclosed to ESPN’s Brett McMurphy some of the meat and potatoes of the proposed deal. ESPN’s deal with the Big East would include seven years for men’s basketball (2013-20) and six years for [...]
Sports Business Journal just reported that ESPN has decided to match NBC Sports’ 6-year, $20+ million per year offer for the Big East’s television rights. All that’s left is to dot some i’s and cross some t’s. The two sides still are trying to work out various details about how [...]
Freshman linebacker Tyler Matakevich was named to the 2012 Freshman All-America team by the Football Writers Association of America today. Matakevich became just the 12th Temple freshman to earn All-America honors and the first since Bernard Pierce to earn recognition as a true freshman. According to a University release, he joins Dan [...]
Khalif Wyatt scored a career-high 33 points and went a perfect 15-of-15 at the line and Anthony Lee added a career-high 21 points en route to a 83-79 victory over #3 Syracuse at Madison Square Garden on Saturday afternoon. The win marked the fifth year in a row that an [...]
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