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Chuck Neinas, a key architect and adviser over decades of college sports, dies at 93


Chuck Neinas, the onetime Big Eight commissioner whose media savvy and dealmaking helped turn college football into a multibillion-dollar business, has died at 93. From 1980-97, Neinas was executive director of the College Football Association, an agency created by several big conferences that sought to wrest control of their TV rights from the NCAA. (https://apnews.com/article/chuck-neinas-dead-colle)

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Chuck Neinas, a key architect and adviser over decades of college sports, dies at 93