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Belmont hires sports marketing director

Posted on October 22, 2009 at 9:41 am

Jimmy Frush is the new director of athletics marketing for Belmont University. Before serving as director of the Mustang Club for Southern Methodist University and holding various other athletics-related positions, Frush was a pitcher for the Class A affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies.

Lucky No. 12

Posted on October 9, 2009 at 10:42 am

There’s a weird symmetry here: Days after Harris Interactive said Nashville was the No. 12 city people want to move to, Sporting News says we’re the No. 12 sports town, miles ahead of Baltimore, San Diego, Milwaukee and a lot of others. The list was built primarily from sports teams’ 2008 performances — thank you, Commodores, for making a bowl game — although attendance figured into things, too.

The Big Dance will return to town in 2012

Posted on September 22, 2009 at 7:59 am

Nashville, in conjunction with the Ohio Valley Conference, will host first- and second-round games of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament in March 2012.

VU football one of the best values around

Posted on August 26, 2009 at 11:22 am

So says online ticket marketplace StubHub, which ranks Vanderbilt third in its list of “great teams that also offer great bargains.”

MTSU’s preferred pie

Posted on June 18, 2009 at 4:20 pm

The athletic department at Middle Tennessee State University has signed a three-year deal with franchisee Darrin Nicholson that will make Fox’s Pizza Den the school’s preferred pizza vendor. Fox’s is based in Pittsburgh and runs more than 300 restaurants around the country, including 11 in Tennessee.

Yeah, these wouldn’t sell real well in New England

Posted on March 11, 2009 at 9:29 am

Cracker Barrel has begun marketing an exclusive line of Lady Vols clothing and merchandise – at its Tennessee stores only, of course. Part of the sales will help fund UT women’s athletic programs beyond basketball.

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