Men’s Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Saturday, December 1 SEC/Big East Challenge Mississippi State at Providence — ESPNU, noon Rutgers at Mississippi — ESPNU, 2 p.m. Alabama at Cincinnati — ESPN2, 3 p.m. Villanova at Vanderbilt — ESPNU, 6...
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All Times Eastern Sunday, December 2 12:30 p.m. Compass Media Networks Indianapolis at Detroit New England at Miami Dial Global Radio Seattle at Chicago — Kevin Kugler/Mark Malone Sports USA Radio Network Minnesota at Green Bay 3:45 p.m. Compass Media...
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Wasn’t able to do any posts yesterday as I was away for most of the day. Tough to get anything done when you’re out of range for any internet or even 3G. First World Problems. Anyway, time for some Friday...
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All Times Eastern NFL Viewing Maps (the506.com) Pregame & Studio Shows First on the Field — NFL Network, 7 a.m. NFL Matchup — ESPN2, 8:30 a.m. NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, 9 a.m. Fantasy Football Today — CBS Sports...
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Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Pregame & Studio Shows College GameDay live from the SEC Championship, Atlanta, GA — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m. This Week in SEC Football — CBS Sports Network, 1 p.m. College Football Countdown —...
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College Basketball Men’s SEC/Big East Challenge Tennessee at Georgetown — ESPN, 6:30 p.m. Georgia at South Florida — ESPNU, 7 p.m. Syracuse at Arkansas — ESPN, 8:30 p.m. DePaul at Auburn — ESPNU, 9 p.m. Northwestern State at Oklahoma —...
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Another week and it means another podcast with my friend and podcast partner, Southern New England media mogul Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal. As usual, Keith and I discuss the news of the week. We began with the news...
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College Basketball Men’s SEC/Big East Challenge Kentucky at Notre Dame — ESPN2, 7 p.m. South Carolina at St. John’s — ESPNU, 7:30 p.m. Marquette at Florida — ESPN2, 9 p.m. Seton Hall at LSU — ESPNU, 9:30 p.m. UNH at...
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For the second consecutive year, Fox goes back-to-back with the Pac-12 and Big Ten Conference Championship Games on consecutive nights. It also marks the second straight year that Gus Johnson and Charles Davis will call both games. This year, sideline...
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This Saturday, ESPN will air the final game of the MLS season, MLS Cup 2012 live from Carson, CA as the Los Angeles Galaxy take on the Houston Dynamo. Adrian Healey and Taylor Twellman will call the game on ESPN....
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After taking a week off for the Thanksgiving holiday, NFL Network’s Thursday Night Football returns with an NFC South blood rivalry game between the New Orleans Saints and the Atlanta Falcons live from the Georgia Dome. Back in Week 11,...
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For the second straight year, Fox Sports has a double conference championship game weekend. And once again, Gus Johnson and Charles Davis will pull the double, calling the Pac-12 Championship Game on Friday in Palo Alto, CA and then taking...
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This week marks for all intents and purposes, the final week of conference play in college football. There are conference championships in the ACC, Big Ten, C-USA, MAC, Pac-12 and SEC. ESPN platforms will carry four of them either through...
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This from the people at ESPN, Notre Dame at USC which pulled a huge overnight rating over the weekend, now becomes the most watched regular season college football game on ABC since 2006. In addition, it’s the 5th most watched...
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Thanks to having three games on Thanksgiving Day as well as Sunday in Week 12, the NFL had three of the most watched programs on television for the week ending Sunday, November 25. The most watched program was the Thanksgiving...
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Let’s do some linkage for you as we hit mid-week. Once again, a shameless plug. Here are some Quick Wednesday Sports Media Thoughts which were written very early this morning. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand talks with former ESPN’er Dana Jacobsen...
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Two Thanksgiving Weekend games at the new Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey led to two blowouts on NBC, but they still generated viewership. With no real competition on Thanksgiving Night, NBC managed to draw the highest rated and most watched...
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College Basketball Men’s ACC/Big Ten Challenge Virginia at Wisconsin — ESPN2, 7 p.m. Purdue at Clemson — ESPNU, 7:15 p.m. Michigan State at Miami (FL) — ESPN, 7:30 p.m. Georgia Tech at Illinois — ESPN2, 9 p.m. Boston College at...
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Tuesday was an early Christmas for your humble blogger. Thanks to some Black Friday sales, I’ve been setting up a new iPad and a new laptop computer, so the posts were rather slim on Tuesday. To make up for that...
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Let’s bring you some linkage. Two days in a row! This is something! Shameless plug department: I wrote Some Long Overdue Tuesday Sports Media Thoughts earlier this morning and make sure you give it a gander. Many thanks. Sam Gustin...
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College Basketball Men’s ACC/Big East Challenge Minnesota at Florida State — ESPN2, 7:15 p.m. Iowa at Virginia Tech — ESPNU, 7:15 p.m. NC State at Michigan — ESPN, 7:30 p.m. Maryland at Northwestern — ESPN2, 9:15 p.m. Nebraska at Wake...
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I’ve been bottling up some sports media thoughts from the last time I wrote a similar post. You’re due for some more. Let’s provide you with some. They’re below in bullet form as always. We’re getting closer to seeing Fox...
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With college football winding down, college basketball is revving up. Starting on Thursday, the ESPN Family of Networks will be all over the SEC/Big East Challenge that lasts through Saturday. In addition, there will be plenty of interconference games involving...
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In one of the most boring seasons as far as flexing is concerned, the National Football League has announced that there won’t be any changes to the Sunday schedules in Week 14 and Week 15 for this season. There has...
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It’s been a while since I’ve done linkage. I’ll provide some on this Cyber Monday. Michael Hiestand of USA Today says having Notre Dame in the BCS National Championship Game will bring in some monster ratings for ESPN. Chris Chase...
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It was originally broken by SportsbyBrooks and it’s now been confirmed by CBS. CBS Sports Radio has announced its morning drive show that will launch when the network premieres on January 2, 2013. It will consist of Brandon Tierney, Tiki...
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College Basketball Men’s Chicago State at Notre Dame — ESPNU, 7 p.m. Oakland at Tennessee — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona/Detroit Plus/Midwest/North/San Diego/South/Southwest/Sun Sports), 7 p.m. Jackson State at Texas Tech — Fox Sports Net-regional (Southwest/Fox Sports North Plus/West)/Fox College Sports...
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Bob Costas talked about the Giants in his halftime commentary. Other subjects were broached as well. We have what was discussed below. And that is it. PACKERS-GIANTS HALFTIME COMMENTARY ON GIANTS Bob Costas: “It’s been said that momentum is among...
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Let’s finish our Sunday NFL pregame show quotage with NBC’s Football Night in America. Lots of things said on this show as you can plainly see below. “FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA” NOTES & QUOTES – WEEK 12 “If they play...
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Tonight on Football Night in America, Bob Costas will talk with Green Bay Packers wide receiver Randall Cobb and New York Football Giants coach Tom Coughlin in advance of tonight’s Sunday Night Football game on NBC. Football Night in America...
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