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(AP) --  Growing profits from college athletics
could mean more money for the rest of the University of Missouri's
cash-strapped Columbia campus.
 

The school's athletics department will gradually return its
annual $1.5 million subsidy for debt service back to the overall
campus budget over the next several years.
 

NCAA research shows Missouri among just 25 major-college sports
programs to turn a profit in the 2008 fiscal year. Tiger athletics
generated $1.4 million in profit that year, and $2 million in the
2009 fiscal year.

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