Red roundup: Forbes examines Pac-12 television deal

By Dirk Facer, Deseret News

Published: Friday, Aug. 5 2011 10:26 a.m. MDT

Forbes takes a look at the Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott and the conference's new television deal.

It notes that the league may have trumped its rivals in the television battle, but not without costs.

Utah, it reads: "Surrendered to the Pac-12 in realization that it is better to be adopted by a networked conference than to be orphaned without it."

— Check out ESPN 700 interviews with Kyle Whittingham, Norm Chow, John Cullen, Chaz Walker, John White and Jordan Wynn.

— Chow headlines an L.A. Times list of new faces in new places.

— Utah is third among others receiving votes in the season's first USA Today Coaches' poll.

— Former Ute quarterback Alex Smith gets a new start with the San Francisco 49ers.

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Dutchman

Murray, UT

Shss.....zzz. Here is the Deseret News at it again. This time they go out and deliberately find an abscure online article written by an unknown law professor at some obscure Florida College to knock the PAC 12 TV deal and declare that the Utes sold More..

2:59 p.m. Aug. 5, 2011
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UU32

Bountiful, UT

Dutchman - I had the same thought. It is interesting how one sided the coverage is getting. It really is too bad.

3:34 p.m. Aug. 5, 2011
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Veritas Aequitas

Fruit Heights, UT

Dutchman | 2:59 p.m. Aug. 5, 2011
Murray, UT
"Shss.....zzz. Here is the Deseret News at it again. This time they go out and deliberately find an abscure online article"...
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Abscure, obscure, I've heard it both More..

12:27 a.m. Aug. 6, 2011
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