From Brett McMurphy, Andy Katz and Dana O’Neil at ESPN.com, we learn that the all-basketball schools from the Big East will leave the conference next year to form their own league and will take the Big East name with it....
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Monthly Archives: February 2013
Last year, the NFL Scouting Combine attracted 6.51 million viewers. Now with all of the major cable and satellite providers on board, NFL Network saw a total viewership of 7.25 million, up 11% from last year. Does having Cablevision and...
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All 39 games of the World Baseball Classic, the sport’s answer to soccer’s World Cup, basketball’s FIBA World Championships and Hockey’s IIHF World Championships, will air on MLB Network. Four years ago, the games were split between MLB Network which...
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Starting tonight, NHL Network gets busy and airs a host of games through Monday. NHL Network has single games tonight, Friday, Sunday and Monday. And then on Saturday, the first time it’s ever aired four games including simulcasting three from...
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28Feb
College Basketball Men’s North Carolina at Clemson — ESPN, 7 p.m. Ohio State at Northwestern — ESPN2, 7 p.m. Morehead State at Tennessee State — ESPNU, 7 p.m. Drexel at Old Dominion — NBC Sports Network, 7 p.m. Idaho State...
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27Feb
Let’s do some linkage while I have some time. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand notes NBC’s hiring of Tiger Woods pal Notah Begay to its golf team. He replaces Dottie Pepper who went to the PGA of America. Sports Business Journal’s...
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Sportfolio, Bloomberg’s show on sports business, host Rick Horrow looks at the business of baseball as he talks with Major League Baseball Executive Vice President for Business Tim Brosnan about the World Baseball Classic. Plus Bloomberg’s Deidre Bolton interviews defending...
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In what has become similar to when ABC aired the old Barbara Walters Specials, we have another hour-long Rich Eisen Special on NFL Network. And why not? In the offseason, why not tap into the face of your network to...
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College Basketball Men’s Michigan at Penn State — Big Ten Network, 6:30 p.m. South Florida at Pittsburgh — Big East Network, 7 p.m. Georgetown at UConn — ESPN2, 7 p.m. Oklahoma State at TCU — ESPNU, 7 p.m. Virginia Tech...
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Time to open up the Fang’s Bites Sports Media notebook as we hit midweek. Lets go over some of the stories that are circulating about the sports media. They’re in bullet form. How much is too much? The sports rights...
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After a week hiatus, the Sports Media Weekly podcast is back and with a vengeance. It’s 44 minutes long and we have two guests! Normally our first guest is our “Third Man In,” but Keith could not join John Daly...
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I’m talking ratings here. And the numbers for Fox Sports for Sunday’s running of The Great American Race are good. Thanks to a race that started and ended pretty much on time. Thanks to increased interest to Danica Patrick. Thanks...
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During today’s Mike Francesa show in Tampa, FL, the Pope decided that he doesn’t like being shot from the side. As he was coming back from break on both WFAN and YES, Francesa saw a camera shot of him from...
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Glad to announce that the @fangsbites is going to be joining us at AA in addition to his great work at fangsbites.com. — Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) February 26, 2013 I am happy to announce that I will be joining the...
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26Feb
College Basketball Men’s Towson at George Mason — Comcast SportsNet (California/Mid-Atlantic Plus/New England)/CSS/The Comcast Network, 7 p.m. Indiana at Minnesota — ESPN, 7 p.m. Memphis at Xavier — ESPN2, 7 p.m. Auburn at Alabama — ESPNU, 7 p.m. Loyola (Chicago)...
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Let’s get cracking on some fresh content on this Monday afternoon. Plenty of stuff to go over. Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch’s Monday column discusses Baltimore Ravens safety Ed Reed reporting on the Red Carpet at The Oscars and reviews Fox’s...
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Without weather delays, having Danica Patrick be in contention for the top spot and remaining in the Top 10 plus having an exciting finish helped to attract eyeballs to the Great American Race on Fox. The Fox Sports officials leaving...
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After losing the UK rights to the English Premier League last year to BT Group, observers had thought ESPN’s days across the pond were numbered. Despite trying to remain afloat with rights to the FA Cup, Scottish Premier League, the...
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25Feb
College Basketball Men’s Syracuse at Marquette — ESPN, 7 p.m. Texas Tech at Kansas State — ESPNU, 7 p.m. Kansas at Iowa State — ESPN, 9 p.m. Villanova at Seton Hall — ESPNU, 9 p.m. Women’s Michigan State at Ohio...
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Erin Andrews left ESPN in July and signed with Fox. Since then, she’s been a studio host for college football, an on-field reporter during Fox’s MLB jewels and the NFL Postseason. This weekend, she was included in Fox’s Daytona 500...
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I haven’t done Sunday links in a very long while. It seems as if part of my weekends have been planned for me behind my back for almost three years straight. Finally glad to be able to do links on a...
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Saturday was certainly the interesting day in sports with two sports outside of the major four dominating headlines. Let’s go over them in bullet form. In what normally is the start of NASCAR’s Nationwide Series became the sports and also...
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When do you bury news? On the weekend! When do the networks put out terse statements on lost sports properties? Either late at night or on the weekends, like 3:19 p.m. ET on Saturday. NBC has conceded losing the Big...
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Let’s do a notebook tonight, shall we? If I can’t do linkage and it always seems something gets in the way these days, I might as well do a notebook. I’ll try to provide as many links and stories as...
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22Feb
Saturday, February 23 Boxing Showtime Boxing IBF Junior Middleweight Championship: Cornelius Bundrage vs. Ishe Smith — Showtime, 9 p.m. NBC Fight Night Heavyweights: Vyacheslav Glazkov vs. Malik Scott — NBC Sports Network, 10:30 p.m. College Basketball Viewing Picks College Hockey New Hampshire...
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Just a half-year after helping to launch the Sports on Earth site, Joe Posnanski has left the joint venture between MLB and USA Today Sports to join the NBC Sports Group and become its national columnist. Previously, Posnanski has worked...
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Men’s Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Announcing Assignments courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Saturday, February 22 Pregame & Studio Shows College GameDay live from Lexington, KY — ESPNU, 10 a.m./ESPN, 11 a.m. 75 Years of NCAA...
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22Feb
College Basketball Men’s North Dakota State at Akron — ESPN2, 7 p.m. Saint Louis at Butler — ESPNU, 7 p.m. Harvard at Brown — WNAC 64.2, 7 p.m. Stephen F. Austin at Long Beach State — ESPNU, 9 p.m. Women’s...
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From John Ourand in today’s Sports Business Daily, ESPN has matched NBC’s offer to air Big East football and basketball. Earlier this week, it was reported that the Big East came to an agreement with NBC Sports Network, a deal...
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Let’s provide a few items that need to be recognized on this busy Thursday in sports. Updated the Viewing Picks to include Entertainment, MMA, NASCAR and the revised start time for the WGC Match Play Championships. I work over an...
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