The high speed catamarans that will be used in this year’s America’s Cup in San Francisco made news last month when a crewmember on board Team Sweden died when it capsized in San Francisco Bay. 60 Minutes Sports will air...
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Category: CBS News
When the lights went out in New Orleans, we didn’t get much information through CBS. The network was hampered by a lack of information from the National Football League, Superdome officials and the city’s electric grid. When a statement was...
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As is the tradition during the Super Bowl pregame show, the President of the United States will be interviewed. This year is no exception. CBS Evening News anchorman Scott Pelley will interview President Barack Obama live from the White House...
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For the last five years, she’s been a featured reporter on ABC’s World News with Diane Sawyer. Before that, she was with CBS News. Now, Sharyn Alfonsi returns to CBS News as a contributor to 60 Minutes Sports on Showtime....
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Starting in January 2013, 60 Minutes Sports becomes a monthly sports newsmagazine joining HBO’s Real Sports, ESPN’s E:60 and NBC Sports Network’s Sports Illustrated. It appears that the program will utilize the current 60 Minutes staff that is seen weekly...
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Taking a cue from ESPN which has selected various locations in the Super Bowl host cities to base their studio shows, CBS will do the same for its shows across its multiple platforms. CBS says it will use Jackson Square...
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Announced by CBS News and Showtime, long-time investigative reporter Armen Keteyian will join the new “60 Minutes Sports” that will launch in January 2013. Keteyian has been a reporter with Sports Illustrated, ABC News, CBS News and HBO’s Real Sports...
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In the past, 60 Minutes has reaired its sports profiles and segments on ESPN Classic and has also provided some of its old content to CNBC. But this new effort will provide original content on sports for Showtime. The series...
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Lots of things to get to today. Couldn’t do the links yesterday. Going to do a big megalink edition for you. Let’s get cracking, but first, there’s the Weekend Viewing Picks complete with a link to the busy College Basketball...
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One of the best hosts on sports television, James Brown will join CBS News as a special correspondent. Brown who rejoined CBS Sports in 2006 after being the original host of Fox NFL Sunday, will begin his CBS News duties...
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I haven’t done a thoughts column in quite some time. And to boot, I’m doing this on the iPad. Not that you should care, but this will cause me to pause and think which is dangerous. Anyway, I’ll do this...
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It’s Wednesday. It’s mid-week and it’s time for some sports media links. Let’s get to them without further delay. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand talks with NBC’s Bob Costas about the “get” of accused child molester Jerry Sandusky for “Rock Center...
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Extremely arrogant NFL agent Drew Rosenhaus will be profiled on “60 Minutes”. The Master Manipulator of the Media, NFL General Managers and Players will be seen playing up to the cameras during a feature that will be hosted by CBS...
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Tonight on the CBS Evening News, correspondent Steve Hartman heads to South Florida for a story on 80 year old Florida Marlins manager Jack McKeon. He helped to guide the Marlins to a World Series Championship in 2003. He came...
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Ok, now that the Olympics bidding is over until the next round sometime later this decade, I can focus on other sports media stories and there are quite a few of them now. The Hollywood Reporter notes that embattled cyclist...
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Time for some linkage on this very warm Thursday. I hope you all take a moment and say a prayer for the people of Western Massachusetts who head to deal with tornadoes yesterday. Four people are confirmed dead. It was...
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If you’ve been visiting the blog throughout the morning, you may have noticed a couple of theme changes and then the return of the current theme. I’ve been trying to make a few cosmetic changes, but I screwed them up...
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On Sunday, the award-winning CBS News program 60 Minutes will profile St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols. The profile will show him in his native Dominican Republic reaching out to the children. And I’m sure there will be talk...
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This Sunday, the CBS Newsmagazine 60 Minutes will give us a profile on one of the most successful high school basketball coaches in the country, Bob Hurley of St. Anthony’s in New Jersey. He has won 24 state championships and...
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Just coming out today, a joint Sports Illustrated/CBS News investigation into the preseason college football Top 25 finds that 1 in every 14 player has been arrested and of those, nearly 40% were for serious offenses. That’s pretty alarming. And...
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On Sunday following CBS’ NFL doubleheader, Dallas Cowboys owner and General Manager Jerry Jones will be profiled on the newsmagazine “60 Minutes”. Jones will talk about various issues including having the Super Bowl at his stadium in February and his...
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Tonight after NFL coverage, CBS News’ venerable 60 Minutes will have a story on Philippine boxing champion Manny Pacquaio. And while much of the story will focus on Pacquaio’s career, some of it will look at his future as many...
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This Sunday, CBS News’ 60 Minutes will air a report on the thoroughbred mare Zenyatta who goes for history in the Breeders’ Cup next weekend. She’ll attempt to win her 20th consecutive race in the Breeders’ Cup Classic. Zenyatta has...
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Once again, CBS’ 60 Minutes will have a sports profile right after an NFL doubleheader. CBS seems to be doing more sports stories on 60 Minutes and usually has them following the late game of the doubleheader. That’s one way...
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Ok, while I’m away at a wedding today, I give you my annual post of The Five Women Who Can Make Me Stop Flipping The Remote. Usually, I’ll try to make each year’s edition different. And since the weekend is...
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Well, we’ve never received Face The Nation quotage before, but when you have a Super Bowl edition from South Florida with NFL Commish Roger Goodell and the CBS Sports NFL crew, we’re going to get a full transcript. So for...
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I hate how I haven’t been able to do the Friday megalinks for most of this month. Work has gotten in the way and while it’s good to get paid, I feel I’ve been behind for most of January. And...
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I think I’ll do three releases for you that previews programming for this weekend. Here’s NBC talking about the first figure skating tournament it’ll air this season. GRAND PRIX OF FIGURE SKATING KICKS OFF THIS WEEKEND ON NBC SPORTS AND...
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Right as ESPN’s Chris Mortensen breaks the news that Michael Vick has signed with the Philadelphia Eagles tonight, you wonder if the interview with CBS’ 60 Minutes that airs Sunday will be rendered obsolete, but you would think they’ll get...
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I think this is a first for Fang’s Bites. We have a whole slew of press releases and I will split them up. This is the first time I’ve devoted one entire multiple press release post to CBS and we...
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