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The Big West may have indirectly helped keep Big East football together for the short term by reversing its December decision to consider Boise State for membership in all other sports.

Hope everybody has a great weekend. There is one clarification I need to make at the top of the chat. In early reporting on John Marinatto's resignation, Andy Katz reported the Big East presidents turned down an initial television offer, 12-4. Kat...

Hope you enjoy spring wrap day. Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany floats more ideas on teams that should make a playoff. Andy Katz wishes good luck to the next Big East commissioner. Interim commissioner Joe Bailey squashed any ideas that the l...

Big East commissioner John Marinatto resigned Monday through a mutual agreement, leaving the league without a leader as the conference works to find its footing amid a radically shifting landscape.

Stanford athletic director Bob Bowlsby has accepted the Big 12 Conference commissioner job, with the announcement to be made Friday in Dallas, a source told ESPN.com's Andy Katz. Bowlsby replaces Dan Beebe, who was fired in September 2011 as th...

Stanford athletic director Bob Bowlsby has accepted the Big 12 Conference commissioner job, with the announcement to be made Friday in Dallas, a source told ESPN.com's Andy Katz. Bowlsby replaces Dan Beebe, who was fired in September 2011 as the B...

Butler will officially join the Atlantic 10 for the 2013-14 season Wednesday, a source with direct knowledge of the negotiation process told ESPN.com Tuesday night.

The UNC Charlotte 49ers have declined an offer to join the Sun Belt Conference, according to a source. The 49ers are eyeing a bid to Conference USA, the source said.

The Sun Belt will add Georgia State Monday for the fall of 2013 in the first move by new commissioner Karl Benson to keep the conference in the chase for Division I relevance.

The Mountain West and Conference USA will announce a newly named conference in what is being termed a new association, not a merger of the remaining existing members.

Conference USA's board of directors will meet later this week to discuss the possibility of a full-scale merger with the Mountain West Conference, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.

The fallout from the Big East's shakeup in football and basketball this week will continue for weeks, if not months or years, according to multiple sources at the conference commissioner level.

The Big East introduced Boise State, San Diego State, Houston, SMU and Central Florida as its new members, effective 2013.

Boise State and San Diego State will place the rest of their athletic programs in the WAC and Big West, respectively, now that their football programs are heading to the Big East for the fall of 2013, multiple sources confirmed to ESPN.com.

Missouri's move to the Southeasten Conference was finished Friday, a source told ESPN.com on Saturday.

Interim Boise State athletic director Curt Apsey called Big West Conference commissioner Dennis Farrell Wednesday seeing if there would be interest in taking in the Broncos sports, including men's basketball, if the Broncos join the Big East in football.