SAN FRANCISCO – The Pac-12 Conference announced today that leading technology and telecommunications companies Comcast and Cox Communications, both of whom are distribution partners of Pac-12 Networks, have agreed to expand their relationships with the Pac-12 to include sponsorship. Comcast’s residential services brand, Xfinity, will become the official multichannel video programming distributor (MVPD) sponsor of each of the Pac-12 universities in its footprint: Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Washington, Washington State University, University of Oregon, Oregon State University, University of Colorado and Utah University.  Similarly, Cox will become the official MVPD partner of the University of Arizona and Arizona State University.