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Big 5 Sporting Goods store in Glendale, California (2007) Big 5 Sporting Goods Corporation is a sporting goods retailer headquartered in El Segundo, California with 434 stores in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. [6] Steven G. Miller is the chairman, president, and CEO.
The Philadelphia Big 5's previous logo. The Big 5 was formed in 1955, a year after La Salle won the 1954 NCAA basketball tournament.The group showcased Philadelphia's basketball talent and helped pay for the upkeep on the Palestra, located on the University of Pennsylvania's campus, where the games historically took place.
The Big 5 Classic, officially known as the Toyota Big 5 Classic for sponsorship reasons, is an annual early-season college basketball tournament and showcase featuring the six member schools of the Philadelphia Big 5—Drexel, La Salle, Penn, Saint Joseph's, Temple, and Villanova. The tournament begins in November with pod play and concludes on ...
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The Philadelphia Big 5 (Penn, Saint Joseph's, Temple, La Salle, Villanova) originally played all of its games at the Palestra. Today, the intra-city conference still plays about half of its round-robin games there. St. Joseph's hosts its Big 5 games at the gym, which is larger than its own Michael Hagan Arena, formerly Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse.
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The Big Ten made a similar proposal during meetings in the spring. But that proposal featured one less automatic qualifier for the SEC and Big Ten and more at-large spots: 3-3-2-2-1+3. In either ...