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07:13 AM ET 05.17 | First-year N.C. State coach Dave Doeren has to like the momentum he's creating, as the Wolfpack added three commitments in the past two weeks. Three-star quarterback Jalan McClendon of Charlotte (N.C.) West Mecklenburg arguably is the prize of the class thus far. The 6-foot-3, 195- pounder also claimed offers from a handful of other ACC schools. Now, N.C. State is hoping to land another quarterback, but he's not in high school. Former Penn State signal caller Steven Bench, who played high school ball in Georgia, will visit the Wolfpack this weekend. He will choose between N.C. State, Mississippi State and South Florida sometime next week. Bench, who has four years to play three seasons, is eligible to play immediately.

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07:12 AM ET 05.17 | The Big Ten title game has a home in Indianapolis for the next three years, but, after that, the idea of moving the game intrigues some conference ADs. Many are pushing for indoor venues -- making Chicago's Solider Field a longshot -- and Ohio State's Gene Smith said he thinks Ford Field in Detroit deserves it. "I love Ford Field. I love what Detroit has done with Ford Field and what they're continuing to do with the area contiguous to that facility," he said. ... "I'm one of those guys that believes we have an obligation or a responsibility when we can to have a social consciousness and have an economic impact in a community that suffers."

Detroit Free Press

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07:11 AM ET 05.17 | Oklahoma men's basketball coach Lon Kruger sees the positives, of course, in the Big 12's strength being enhanced by Marcus Smart, Markel Brown and Le'Bryan Nash returning to Oklahoma State. "Very, very good deal for the conference," Kruger said last week at the OU Caravan in Tulsa. "Tough for all the teams that have to play against them because they're really good. "They did a good job this year, in taking a step. Those guys, especially, that decided to stay in school, make them that much tougher. It'll be great for the conference but tough for all the other teams in the league." A true freshman last season, Smart was the Big 12 Player of the Year, and won the Wayman Tisdale Award as the best freshman in the country.

The Oklahoman

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07:10 AM ET 05.17 | It hasn't taken him long in Storrs, but Rodney Purvis has already made quite an impression in his first week at UConn. [Purvis'] first game is 18 months away, but he is already in attack mode. "I kind of reframed everything in my mind," Purvis said Thursday after a one-hour workout with new teammate Ryan Boatright and assistant coach Karl Hobbs. "I was calm, relaxed. Now my whole mind-set is different. I'm in the gym a lot, my mind-set is to try to destroy -- I know they're my teammates, but I've got to push these guys for the season. I'm only going to be in practice, but I'm going to treat these practices like they're my games." Purvis, who transferred from N.C. State on April 5, will have to sit out next season.

Hartford Courant

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06:29 PM ET 05.16 | News item! Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, the record executive who helped discovered him, are donating $70 million to USC, founding a degree program through which students learn how to meld marketing, business, and music-type stuff to learn how to become music moguls like Dre and Iovine. It's going to be called the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology, and the Business of Innovation. There are NCAA rules that prevent coaches from leveraging celebrities to demonstrate the benefits of a college sports team. Air Force couldn't even let their players teach Prince Harry how to play football, and there is a zero percent chance that the prospect of meeting Prince Harry would ever sway any college football recruit towards attending a service academy. So having the possibility of selling kids on taking classes in or near Classes by Dre Classes? As close as football coaches will ever get, within NCAA rules.

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