Yet another sign of the Big East's renewed commitment to significantly improve the conference's bowl picture....According to the New York Times, the Big East and the Big 12 are close to an agreement with the New York Yankees to play a bowl game at Yankee Stadium beginning in 2010. The "Yankee Bowl" would place the Big East's 3rd or 4th place finisher against the 7th place team from the Big 12 and would take place during the week between Christmas and New Years. The most interesting point that I took away from the story is that the Big East has not committed to which team (either the 3rd or 4th) they will slot for the match up against the Big 12. This may have some implications on another ongoing negotiation between the Big East and the Music City Bowl in Nashville that would seemingly leave the Big East open to place its 3rd place team in a match up against the SEC.