Announced by NESN at the same time the Erin Andrews-to-Fox story broke, we learn that retired Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield will now become a studio analyst for the network. Wakefield retired during Spring Training this year after a stellar...
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Baseball in Primetime continues on Fox. The network will send out six games to the nation with the Mets at Dodgers being the showcase game beamed to 40% of the country. Once again, Joe Buck is on the case and...
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Usually late Friday afternoon/early evening is reserved for news that needs to be buried, but with some surprising breaking sports media news, it causes your humble blogger to write some rare Saturday sports media thoughts. On the sports media beat,...
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Here’s another thing that came out of left field. Erin Andrews, the former darling of ESPN is leaving and will most likely join Fox for its college football coverage. Josh Krulewitz of ESPN public relations confirmed Erin’s departure just a...
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And can you believe I’ve been able to do linkage for most of the week? Hasn’t been like that in a long while. Glad I’ve been able to get it done. Time for your Friday megalinks. As usual, we provide...
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Saturday, June 30 Boxing IBF Junior Middleweight Championship: Cornelius Bundrage vs. Cory Spinks — Showtime, 9 p.m. CFL Toronto at Edmonton — TSN/ESPN3, 7 p.m. Cycling Tour de France: Prologue, Liège to Liège — NBC Sports Network, 8 a.m. ESPN...
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Arena Football Milwaukee Mustangs at Cleveland Gladiators — NFL Network, 8 p.m. Australian Rules Football Adelaide Crows vs. Richmond Tigers — Fox Soccer Plus, midnight CFL Saskatchewan at Hamilton — TSN/ESPN3, 7 p.m. Winnipeg at BC — TSN/ESPN3, 10 p.m....
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The NFL is the league that can for the most part, schedule its games whenever and wherever it wants. Out of left field on Thursday came the news that the late Sunday afternoon doubleheader game would be pushed from the...
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On tonight’s Late Show with David Letterman, New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees talks about “Bountygate” and the effects the scandal has had on his team. The show airs at 11:35 p.m. ET/PT on CBS. QUARTERBACK DREW BREES SPEAKS OUT...
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I don’t have much to add to this. You can read the MLB Network press release below. INDEPENDENCE DAY DOUBLEHEADER AND MATCHUPS WITH EVERY FIRST-PLACE CLUB INCLUDED IN MLB NETWORK’S JULY GAME SCHEDULE MLB Network Showcase Games to Feature Yankees...
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We have the official NBC press release which outlines all of the announcers and hosts for the networks of NBCUniversal involved in the Games of the XXX Olympiad in London. The lineup is pretty close to what I gave you...
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This is our other big news of the day. ESPN announcing it has signed a 12 year extension to keep the Rose Bowl under the Disney wing until 2026. This new extension will take effect in 2015. ABC started airing...
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During the whole Supreme Court decision on ObamaCare, we get this strange news tidbit from the National Football League that changes things around for everyone. The late Sunday afternoon national game which had been at 4:15 p.m. since 1998 will...
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Looks like I’m going to be busy today so I’m going to do the linkage a bit early for me at least. David Bauder of the Associated Press writes that even though he’s no longer NBC Sports Emperor, Dick Ebersol’s...
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EURO 2012 Semifinals, Warsaw, Poland Germany vs. Italy — ESPN, 2:30 p.m. UEFA Euro Report — ESPN, 2 p.m. EURO 2012 Tonight — ESPN2, 5 p.m. Golf Champions Tour: Senior Players Championship, 1st Round — Golf Channel, 1 p.m. European...
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Ok, NBC’s press release on its 2012 Olympics hosts and announcers has yet to arrive. Thanks to an alert reader, I was tipped off to NBC Sports Group’s press release website which has the talent bios of its announcers for...
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From NBC, this announcement that cable and satellite TV subscribers can now verify to gain access to the 3,500 hours of live streaming at NBCOlympics.com. Unlike the difficult process for March Madness, this process is much simpler. All you have...
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Time for some Wednesday links. Won’t be a full set as I’ll be monitoring NBC’s Olympic conference call. Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio discusses Chris Berman heading to the Monday Night Football booth for two games. Matt Yoder of Awful...
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Since SportsbyBrooks tweeted last week that Chris Berman would call the opening week Monday Night Football late doubleheader game, we’ve been waiting for confirmation. Instead of receiving a press release, ESPN has chosen to confirm this through its public relations...
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It seemed four years ago when ESPN began its commitment to soccer with EURO 2008 that getting ratings anything near to what the network saw for the EURO 2012 tournament would be a pipe dream. However, not only have the...
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EURO 2012 Semifinals, Donetsk, Ukraine Portugal vs. Spain — ESPN, 2:30 p.m. UEFA Euro Report — ESPN, 2 p.m. EURO 2012 Tonight — ESPN2, 5 p.m. Golf PGA Professional National Championship, Final Round — Golf Channel, 4 p.m. MLB American...
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Wednesday’s sports media column from USA Today’s Michael Hiestand is chock full of information. Like the sports media thoughts, we’ll handle them in bullet form. First, NBC will announce its Olympic talent roster along with its programming schedule. And Wednesday’s...
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Announced today by the NBC Sports Group, the Tour de France will air primarily on NBC Sports Network and on NBC through 2023. The new agreement begins in 2014 and calls for a ten year contract. Most of the 21...
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Let’s do some Tuesday links. We’ll start with Matt Hayes of AOL Sporting News and he writes that the BCS is looking for a $5 billion TV deal over a decade for its new college football playoff. In the Indiana...
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Yesterday, former ESPN First Take co-host Dana Jacobsen revealed on her blog that she had been molested by her babysitter when she was a child. It took a lot of courage to speak out and make that public. Dana said...
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Golf PGA Professional National Championship, 3rd Round — Golf Channel, 4 p.m. Big Break Academy — Golf Channel, 8:30 p.m. MLB American League Anaheim Angels at Baltimore — Fox Sports West/MASN, 7 p.m. Cleveland at New York Yankees — STO/YES,...
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Time for some sports media thoughts. These have been percolating in my head all day Monday. It’s fine time to pour them out and have you peruse through them. As always, they’re in bullet form. Monday’s announcement from NFL Network...
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Tomorrow, NHL Network in the US will pick up TSN2′s airing of the Hockey Hall of Fame Inductee Announcement at 3 pm. ET. Here’s NHL Network’s press release. NHL NETWORK U.S. TO SIMULCAST 2012 HOCKEY HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE ANNOUNCEMENT...
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This Thursday, ESPN will air the NBA Draft live from the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ. College GameDay’s Rece Davis will host. Jay Bilas will sit at the main desk with Rece. ESPN NBA analysts Jeff Van Gundy, Chris Broussard,...
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Yes, golf. But Golf Channel has more than golf, its original programming that fill the days until Thursday when the live golf action hits. There’s the return of Feherty this week, Big Break Atlantis of which I’m totally hooked this...
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