Damage vs. Damages - let's get it right (especially TV anchors)

Dear WLTX, WIS and numerous other TV stations I've heard this on during my travels:

Damages is what you win in court. It is NOT what is done in a fire, flood, etc. (The company won $63,000 in damages in its lawsuit.)

Damage is what happens in those cases. (The fire caused an estimated $63,000 in damage.)

So unlike the WLTX anchor who just -- again -- said a fire caused so-and-so amount in "damages," let's try to get it right and not sound illiterate, OK?

(Don't believe me? Here's another source. You can find many out there of various repute.)

Hold that apostrophe

So, should one worry when the athletics department at one's university can't use punctuation properly in forming a plural?  (As in there shouldn't be an apostrophe.)

Now that it's in the banner, it probably will be repeated every year. Sigh.