Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. - CBS (NYSE: CBS) said on Thursday that its CBS Sports division will stream select games from the 2008-09 SEC college basketball season live on its website, beginning on Dec. 13 with Indiana at Kentucky. A total of 12 games will be streamed live online for free, including the SEC Championship Game on Sunday, March 15.

Los Angeles - News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) Fox Sports TV Group has announced plans to broadcast this year's college football Bowl Championship Series title game in 3D to a number of movie theaters, as well as to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Variety reports. The NFL is scheduled to make its first 3D broadcast of a game tomorrow to theaters in Los Angeles, New York and Boston.

New York - CBS (NYSE: CBS) announced on Wednesday that it will begin offering free live streaming of SEC college football games this year, the Associated Press reported. CBSSports.com will offer 17 SEC games, including the conference championship.

Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. - CBS' (NYSE: CBS) CBSSports.com said on Monday that, for the first time, this year it will offer all 63 games of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship -- including the championship game -- via its broadband NCAA March Madness on Demand service. Previously, the video player had provided online access only to the first several rounds of the tournament. Last year, the streaming service attracted 1.38 million total unique users during the tournament.

Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. - CBS' (NYSE: CBS) CBSSports.com said on Thursday that it has teamed with online social network Facebook to offer an official NCAA March Madness Brackets application to Facebook users. Participants will be able to compare picks with friends, as well as access tournament video coverage through links to the network's NCAA March Madness on Demand live streaming service. CBS said that more than 2.6 million Facebook users joined at least one bracket group in a similar feature offered last year.

Santa Monica, Calif. - Jacked, a developer of interactive TV technology, has raised $6.5 million in its first round of venture capital financing, from Provenance Ventures, Core Capital Partners and Gabriel Venture Partners, PaidContent.org reported.

Toronto - JumpTV, a provider of live TV broadcasts over the Internet, announced that it will acquire the broadband network business unit of XOS Technologies, which focuses on U.S. college sports, for $60.25 million.

Orlando, Fla. - Video game publisher Electronic Arts announced on Monday that sports media firm XOS Technologies has licensed its core football video game technology to develop a training simulator for collegiate and pro football teams. The XOS PlayAction Simulator features the same technology found in EA's "Madden NFL" and "NCAA Football" franchises. Separately, EA said on Monday that it has signed Washington Wizards All-Star Gilbert Arenas to serve as cover athlete and spokesman for its "NBA Live 08" title, slated for release in the fall.

New York - College basketball fans going online Monday and Tuesday to fill out brackets for the NCAA Men's Div. I Basketball Tournament kicking off this week spread themselves fairly evenly across ESPN.com, Yahoo Sports and CBS SportsLine.com, according to data from Hitwise.

New York - CBS Sports announced on Thursday that it will offer "near real-time" game video clips and highlights of the NCAA basketball tournament on YouTube.

Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. - CBS SportsLine on Tuesday announced the launch of its NCAA March Madness on Demand service, which will again this year offer free online streaming of all 56 games from the early rounds of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship broadcast by CBS Sports. Last year, the company served over 19 million streams. This year's service will feature a 50% larger video screen, and also for the first time offer live audio streaming of Westwood One's radio broadcasts of the tournament's first two rounds. A new, live halftime show produced for MMOD, sponsored by AT&T, will feature SportsLine's Jason Horowitz paired with a college coach.

Denver, Colo. - The NCAA plans this week to announce the launch of NCAA On Demand, a site that will offer access to nearly 5,000 games in various sports, dating back to the 1930s.

Redwood City, Calif. - Electronic Arts said on Friday that it has signed former Boise State University quarterback and Tostitos Fiesta Bowl MVP Jared Zabransky as the cover athlete for its "NCAA Football 08" game, scheduled for release this summer. Developed by EA Tiburon, the game will be available for PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3, Xbox and Xbox 360.

Los Angeles - RazorGator Experiences, the provider of an online exchange where users can buy and sell tickets, announced on Tuesday that the NCAA will use its service for the 2007 NCAA Men's Final Four basketball tournament. The company ensures that if a buyer doesn't receive their confirmed tickets, it will substitute comparable or better tickets for the same price, or issue a full refund. Los Angeles-based RazorGator also handles secondary ticket sales for the Tournament of Roses and several NFL teams.