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KANSAS CITY, Mo. —The Big 12′s lower-revenue schools walked out of the con­fer­ence meet­ings Fri­day with a mul­ti­mil­lion dol­lar pay raise. Pre­vi­ously, the Big 12 dis­trib­uted 57 per­cent of foot­ball and bas­ket­ball TV dol­lars equally among its 12 mem­bers. But with Col­orado and Nebraska gone, the 10-team league has decided to spread 76 per­cent of the [...]

PISCATAWAY, N.J. —Former Rut­gers coach Fred Hill, who accepted a buy­out last year after an inci­dent at a Scar­let Knights base­ball game, will join North­west­ern as an assis­tant coach, accord­ing to two per­sons with knowl­edge of the situation. The per­sons spoke Fri­day on con­di­tion of anonymity because North­west­ern hasn’t announced the move yet. Pro­vided his let­ter [...]

DESTIN, Fla. —There will be one bas­ket­ball divi­sion in the South­east­ern Con­fer­ence along with some unhappy foot­ball coaches. School pres­i­dents and chan­cel­lors voted Fri­day to elim­i­nate divi­sions in men’s bas­ket­ball and to reduce the annual sign­ing classes in foot­ball to 28 play­ers. SEC foot­ball coaches voted unan­i­mously to keep the num­ber at 28. It’s sweep­ing reform [...]