Category: ESPN Classic

All Times Eastern Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Announcing Assignments courtesy of Your Eye on the Sports Sky and Air Thursday, November 21 Studio and Pregame Shows College Football Live — ESPN, 7 p.m. Fox College Thursday — Fox...
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This Sunday, ESPN will air the Women’s Final Four on Sunday. It begins at 6 p.m. ET with the NCAA Women’s Final Four Special hosted by Kevin Negandhi with analysts Carolyn Peck and Kara Lawson. Then at 6:30 p.m., Dave...
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In the wake of Hector “Macho” Camacho’s death earlier today, ESPN Classic will air his best fights all day Saturday. Camacho was shot while in his car earlier this week and slipped into a coma. He was declared brain dead...
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Believe it or not, we’re in the home stretch of the college football season. Just a couple of more weeks before we have the conference championship games and then bowl season in December. It’s not long now. We’re not quite...
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Starting tonight, ESPN Classic goes US Open heavy with replays of Sunday’s women’s final between Victoria Azarenka and Serena Williams and Monday’s men’s final between Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray. Both matches went the distance and were deemed as “Instant...
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ESPN has begun its three month-long recognition of Title IX. It has already launched a dedicated microsite and begun some programming initiatives. ESPN’s networks will be all over the 40th anniversary weekend in June with documentaries, espnW features and a...
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Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports College GameDay live from Houston, TX — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m. noon Louisville at UConn — Big East Network Big Ten Network Channel Finder Indiana at Michigan State — Big Ten Network Iowa...
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We’re getting close to the end of the college football regular season. After this weekend, there’s the traditional Thanksgiving rivalry games, then the conference championship games and finally, the Army-Navy game before heading into the inexorable Bowl season in December....
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Now that the first-run of the acclaimed Friday Night Lights is done on both DirecTV and NBC, the show is free to find a new home and it has done just that by moving to ESPN Classic. The series will...
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While I’m at work on this Saturday, I’ll do some linkage for you. Marcus Vanderberg at SportsNewser notes that Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson used a gay slur to berate a caller on a Sirius XM radio show last...
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Thanks to the success of the “30 for 30″ series, ESPN Films will make ESPN Classic its home. I think this is a good move. So every weekend, 50 hours of films will be aired on ESPN Classic starting Friday...
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It’s been a busy day for me as I’ve been working on the story on NBC approving plans for a Stanley Cup Final Viewing Party at TD Garden in Boston. Amazing how things fall into place on a story like...
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The last games of the 2010-11 NBA season will be played on ABC as the Finals between the Dallas Mavericks and the Miami Heat begin on Tuesday. And it marks the earliest the Finals will have begun since 1986 as...
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ESPN is announcing that it will mark the 50th anniversary of the program that put ABC Sports on the map and became one of the most important in the history of sports television. Wide World of Sports not only gave...
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I’m going to try to post some of the Friday megalinks. This won’t be an entire post. Unless something happens, I should be able to get most of them in. Of course, you can find the Weekend Viewing Picks for...
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ESPN will set up shop in Sundance Square in Fort Worth, TX and that will be its headquarters for Super Bowl XLV. Its headquarters will be the command post for some 18 platforms on TV, radio, print and the internet....
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Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports on TVCollege Gameday live from Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL – ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m. noonNorth Carolina State at North Carolina – ACC Network West Virginia at Louisville – Big East Network Big Ten...
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We’re almost at the end of the college football season if you can believe that. It seemed like the season started just a few weeks ago. Anyway, we have ESPN’s college football schedule for this week and College Gameday’s stop...
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Schedule Courtesy Matt’s College Sports on TV College Gameday, live from Tuscaloosa, AL – ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m. noon Duke at Wake Forest – ACC Network (formerly Raycom Sports) Indiana State at Cincinnati – Big East NetworkTexas Southern at...
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Earlier this year, ESPN’s networks were all over the FIFA World Cup. It won’t get as much attention here and worldwide, but basketball’s world championships take place in Turkey starting Saturday and will continue into next month. All 80 games...
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Well, my day has been planned for me, but I don’t want to leave you without links so I got up early to provide some until I return home sometime after 6 tonight. Without further ado, here are the links....
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Ok, time to do the Friday megalinks. Coming at night again after shuffling between two offices and playing chauffeur. So blogging had to take a back seat for a bit. I thank everyone who sent in questions for the Fang’s...
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The World Cup will be held while many of us will either be getting ready to work or be at work so we may not be able to see the matches live. To rectify this, ESPN2 and ESPN Classic will...
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Ok, let’s do some linkage for Tuesday. We’re in transition as we are in between big sporting events. We’re finished with the Olympics. That’s being put in the memory banks. The next blips on the radar screen are the college...
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Our last set of links for 2009 is coming your way. It appears my day has been planned for me on New Year’s Day so I won’t be doing links on Friday. They’ll return on Saturday. As it’s snowing quite...
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We have a couple of releases for you from ESPN. As Jimmie Johnson won his 4th consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship, the Alleged Worldwide Leader will have him all over the place on Monday. ESPN to Welcome NASCAR Sprint Cup...
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College Gameday live from Tucscon, AZ – ESPN, 10 a.m. noonOhio State at Michigan – ABC Louisville at South Florida – Big East Network Maine at New Hampshire – Comcast SportsNet New England/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic Minnesota at Iowa – ESPNNorth...
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Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports College Gameday, live from Fort Worth, TX – ESPN, 10 a.m. noonLouisville at Syracuse – Big East Network Big Ten Network GamefinderIndiana at Penn State – Big Ten NetworkMichigan at Wisconsin – Big Ten...
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Let’s give you some general sports press releases. I’ll begin with ESPN’s SportsNation which set a record for Brett Favre mentions. Guinness World Records® Recognizes SportsNation for Most ‘Favre’ Mentions in an Hour In a matter of one hour Monday,...
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After watching a horrible pitching performance by the Red Sox and an amazing Indianapolis Colts win (no, I still don’t have a TV and have to depend on watching backdoor websites), I’ll give you some press releases that came into...
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