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The climax of the NCAA outdoor track and field championships comes Saturday with two hours of nationally televised action on CBS.

Big 12: Colorado says it hasn't received Pac-10 invitation 01/13/11 - 10:36pm

Officials from Colorado, one of the Big 12 schools that could be part of a Pac-10 expansion, met Tuesday night in a special session.But following the regents meeting in Denver, Colorado spokesman Ken McConnellogue told the Denver Post that the school had not yet received a Pac-10 invitation."No, we didn't," he said.Colorado and Baylor are vying to be the final school if the Pac-10 takes six current Big 12 members, sources familiar with the process have said.

Big 12: Source says deadline decision for Missouri is June 17 01/13/11 - 10:36pm

ST. LOUIS — Lending clout to what a well-placed college athletics administrator believes could be "kind of a showdown" week in the otherwise relentless rumor mill of expansion chatter, another source familiar with the matter said Tuesday that the Big 12 Conference has given Missouri until June 17 to declare its loyalty and intention to stay in the conference.

Big 12: Source says deadline decision for Missouri is June 17 01/13/11 - 10:37pm

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Pair of Tech athletes get scholarships 01/13/11 - 10:37pm

Texas Tech’s Amanda Alley and Christian Rojmar were two of 24 Big 12 Conference student-athletes selected to receive 2009-10 Dr. Prentice Gautt Postgraduate Scholarships, the conference announced. Alley, a senior from Crosbyton, is a pole vaulter on the women’s track and field team, and Rojmar formerly competed on the men’s tennis team. The scholarships are named in honor of the late Gautt, a former Big 12 staff member and student services pioneer who passed away in March 2005. The list of recipients has grown to 249 since the league’s inception in 1996.