... one thing when an anonymous blogger throws out a rumor. Those kind of things happen all the time.

It's another when a respected college football journalist like Rivals.com's Tom Dienhart does it, followed a few hours later by an assistant AD at Rice adding the "exciting news" coming later today that Temple and one other school will join Conference USA for football only, effective starting with the 2011 season.

Dienhart has broken many stories and his reputation is impeccable in the business, so his word is nothing to be trifled with, and when the Rice AD says "exciting news" coming today, that's as close to a two-source confirmation as you'll get in today's increasingly electronic media.

So I...

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