GREENSBORO, N.C. -- BCS officials selected Bill Hancock to become the first executive director of college football's postseason system.

MONDAY

Saturday presents another action packed day of college football, with ABC15 and its affiliate channels carrying four marquee matchups Sept. 15.

After entering the Long Beach (Calif.) Regional as a No. 4 seed and emerging as champion over three squads ranked in final regular-season polls, Fresno State is being hailed as the NCAA tournament’s Cinderella story.

MIAMI — In the coldest Orange Bowl ever, the Iowa Hawkeyes’ swarming defense kept the heat on Georgia Tech.

LOS ANGELES -- The dean of Pac-10 football coaches, Mike Bellotti of Oregon, was asked on Thursday how much the conference has changed during his tenure.

NASSAU, Bahamas - While officials from Nassau to South Carolina were keeping an eye on Tropical Storm Hanna, behind it, Hurricane Ike lumbered across the Atlantic as a powerful Category 4 storm.

INDIANAPOLIS - Top-ranked Illinois heads into the NCAA tournament with one loss and the overall No. 1 seed, while Washington was this year's surprise at the top of the bracket.

When it comes to college golf, there is the NCAA championships and the conference championships, and that’s really about it. Every other event is a buildup, especially the NCAA regionals, which are no more than tryouts for the big dance.

Herb Sendek wants you to know his offense isn’t a dull-as-mashed-potatoes bore. As he sets up shop in a crowded sports market, the new ASU basketball coach seems to know that 58-53 games — which aren’t unheard of in college basketball — aren’t going to sell tickets.

Herb Sendek wants you to know his offense isn’t a dull-as-mashed-potatoes bore. As he sets up shop in a crowded sports market, the new ASU basketball coach seems to know that 58-53 games — which aren’t unheard of in college basketball — aren’t going to sell tickets.

LOS ANGELES - It all sounded like the same ol’ November song and dance.

HAMILTON, Bermuda - Florence intensified into the second hurricane of the Atlantic season Sunday as it headed for Bermuda, where residents installed storm shutters and hauled their yachts onto beaches.

Special interests won the day in the race for the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) in 2012, and the Arizona public got legally swindled.

GREENSBORO, N.C. - In the most surprising move of the Atlantic Coast Conference's six-week expansion saga, the league has decided to pursue only Miami and Virginia Tech, a high-ranking conference source told The Associated Press.

The Coyotes signed right wing/defenseman Craig Weller to a one-year contract and defenseman David Schlemko to a three-year entry level deal Thursday. Terms of the contracts were not disclosed.

Notre Dame senior-to-be quarterback Sean Renfree gave a verbal commitment to Georgia Tech Monday morning, choosing coach Chan Gailey’s program over Arizona State and Stanford.

Notre Dame senior-to-be quarterback Sean Renfree gave a verbal commitment to Georgia Tech Monday morning, choosing coach Chan Gailey’s program over Arizona State and Stanford.

Consecutive Final Four appearances and a couple first-round NBA draft picks in his first four years at UCLA weren’t enough to lure Ben Howland to New York City on draft day.

The weekend's games did little to clarify the Pac-10 race, as the top five schools are still separated by two games. UCLA leads the way at 12-4. Washington and California are 11-5 and Arizona and Stanford are 10-6.

Before the men's basketball coaches could meet in Chicago to let the public know the evils of their sport were going to be addressed, the sports world was presented another reminder of how unseemly college sports have become.

The ignored stepchildren of big-money college basketball are throwing their own party. The Big 12 and Pac-10 will hold the first of four annual cross-conference challenge series based on the nine-year-old ACC-Big Ten Challenge this December.