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Minnesota Senate gave final approval to Vikings new $975 million stadium (Star Tribune via Sports Business News)

Is Florida State heading to the Big 12 as conference roulette rolls on? (Yahoo, Orlando Sentinel)

Is Boise reconsidering its move to the Big East? (CBS Sports)

Fresh on the heel of the Lingerie Football League, we have the Bikini Hockey League (Bob's Blitz)

The USFL returns, but as a minor league on par with the NBA D-League (Sports Business Digest)

New York Times sells remaining interest in Fenway Sports Group, owner of the Red Sox and Liverpool FC (Yahoo)

ESPN is bringing back 30 for 30 for a new season of 15 documentaries starting this fall (NYT)

USA Today is out with its annual database of collegiate athletic finances (USA Today)

Why sports TV rights fees keep growing (Eric Crawford)

The Rick's blog is back as he humorously discusses what the Cards need to do in offseason (Rick Pitino)

ACC-Big Ten Challenge matchups announced featuring Maryland at Northwestern (ESPN)

Is Madison Square Garden ($MSG) a buy right now (Insider Monkey)

Rise of American Football in the Holy Land (Post Game)

 Reality TV comes to Liverpool (NYT)

 Conference rouletter rolls on; this time around it's the conferences other than the Big Six.(CBSSports)

 Perhaps baseball's best closer ever career may be coming to an end due to freakish accident (NYT)

Sacramento's continuing arena problems put Kings closer and closer to moving to Seattle (Seattle Times)via (SBN)

 X Games expanding to six cities on three continents for 2013 (Sports Business)

 Tanking, Incentives and the NBA (Sports Law Blog)

 Allegations against Billy Hunter of the NBPA and what it tells us about US labor law and player unions (Concurring Opinions)

 Minnesota governoralleges secret deal between Vikings and Republican legislators over new stadium for Vikings, paranoia? (Forbes )

Historic Calumet Farm, breeder of nine Kentucky Derby winners is sold for $35 million (C-J)

Another rivalry bites the dust; this time Kentucky-Indiana basketball game won't be played in dispute over location. Louisville would like to take Kentucky's place (abc11)

Should the US and Canada follow the rest ofthe world and ban race day medication? (C-J)

A classic long form look at the Derby from Louisvillian Hunter Thompson (Grantland)

Rosie Napravnik becomes first female jockey to win Kentucky Oaks aboard former Ky Governor's filly (DRF)

From the father of speed figures, it's Bodemeister in the Derby (DRF)

AEG, the sports and entertainment megafirm, which owns the Los Angeles Galaxy and the Staples Center, among other things, is set to announce a $700 million dollar naming rights deal with Farmers Insurance for a NFL stadium to be built in downtown Los Angeles.  AEG is one of two groups pursuing a NFL team for LA, but this deal certainly pushes it to the forefront.  A deal for a yet to built stadium for a non-existent team has to be the first of a kind, not to mention the largest naming rights deal ever made in North American sports.