Athletics

A Powerful League Piles Up Its Advantages

Courtesy Steve Franz, Louisiana State U. Sports Information

As football season kicks off this week, SEC fans, like those at Louisiana State U., have much to celebrate, including more television exposure than any other league.
By Brad Wolverton August 31, 2009 Premium content for subscribers. Subscribe Today

Birmingham, Ala.

On a quiet block in this sleepy Southern town sits an ordinary office building that, but for a few football helmets visible along a row of office windows, gives little hint of being the center of the college-sports universe.

But thanks to a...

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