{"id":33,"date":"2010-06-14T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T03:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=33"},"modified":"2010-06-14T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T03:13:00","slug":"espn-misses-the-mark-on-big-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"ESPN misses the mark on Big 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big story in college sports in recent days has been expansion, and ESPN clearly missed on this one Monday. The WWL&#8217;s Joe Schad reported that <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/ncaa\/news\/story?id=5284375\">four schools, including Texas, <\/a>were leaving for the Pac-10, which already had grabbed Colorado from the league.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The departure of Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State to the Pac-10 is imminent, four sources within the Big 12 said Monday,&#8221; ESPN reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One source said commissioner Dan Beebe&#8217;s last-minute plan to save the conference has &#8216;zero&#8217; chance to succeed. Another source said it is &#8216;very unlikely&#8217; to succeed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Time for ESPN to get a new source, as Beebe had a better than zero chance after all. Later Monday, the Big 12 &#8230; er, 10? &#8230; announced that Texas and nine other schools were staying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big story in college sports in recent days has been expansion, and ESPN clearly missed on this one Monday. The WWL&#8217;s Joe Schad reported&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}