It looks as though the Holiday Bowl is in for a bit of a shakeup starting in 2014. According to sources, the Big Ten Conference is close to finalizing a deal with this bowl that would end the bowl’s previous relationship with the Big 12.

The supposed deal would last six years and would allow the bowl to pick second in the Pac-12, after the playoff teams have been chosen and match them up against the third-chosen team from the Big Ten.

The Ducks’ last appearance in the Holiday Bowl was in 2008 when they defeated Oklahoma State, 42-31.

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Rutgers University announced Wednesday they have named Julie Hermann as their new athletic director. She previously served as senior associate athletic director at Louisville prior to her her job in New Jersey.

Her hiring officially signifies the end of the Tim Pernetti era at the university; he had left the school in the wake of men’s basketball coach Mike Rice’s firing.

She is expected to be officially introduced on Wednesday afternoon.

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Without a single dollar worth of endorsement deals, Floyd Mayweather Jr. is once again the highest paid athlete in the United States, according to Sports Illustrated.

The prime time boxer who is known as much for his smack talk as his skills in the ring is projected to make approximately $90 million in 2013.

LeBron James came in at No. 2, making $56,545,000; and Drew Brees is at No. 3, earning $47.8 million.