While I attended the Bloomberg Sports Baseball launch in New York today, three press releases from CBS Sports flew into the Fang’s Bites inbox. I could not post them right away, but I give them to you now. All deal...
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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Today, I had the opportunity to attend the unveiling of a new statistical program developed by Bloomberg, the same people behind the financial network which helps clients analyze stocks and trends. The unveiling took place at Bloomberg headquarters in New...
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We’re now in a question and answer period of the Bloomberg Sports/MLB presentation. I will ask to see if I can get some screen grabs of the program. Some good stuff was demonstrated. You can get more info about the...
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We’re now getting a demonstration of the pro product for the Bloomberg/MLB program and to sign in, one has to use fingerprint verification. Biometric identification! That’s cool. Hitters can be broken down into averages in certain areas in the strike...
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After being fed lunch and commiserating with the always lovely OCD Chick, Amanda Rykoff, we’re finding more about the Bloomberg Sports/MLB product. Writer Jonah Keri is going to be the head of content for Bloomberg Sports and provide articles for...
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I’m live Tweeting from the MLB.com/Bloomberg launch event so if you want some full reactions, you can go to twitter.com/fangsbites to read my reactions, plus if you search #BBGSports on Twitter, you’ll see various bloggers and others who give their...
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Here at Bloomberg headquarters in New York City and finding some interesting info about its new MLB fantasy product. It will allow you to marry your league from ESPN.com, Yahoo, CBSSports.com, etc. and you can change your roster from the...
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Your humble blogger is at Bloomberg headquarters in New York City today for the launch of a sports data program for MLB.com. Can’t say much about it right now, but suffice to say it’s going to be quite interesting. I’ll...
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Last week, I took a break from doing the Videos of the Week and the look back at previous Winter Olympics. Time to do it again, this week, we look back at NBC’s first Winter Olympics since Sapporo, Japan in...
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CBS Sports had some opportunity to make news Saturday and did. During the Duke-Georgetown game at the Verizon Center in DC, President Obama joined Uncle Verne Lundquist and Clark Kellogg courtside for a brief interview. President Obama joined CBS Sports’...
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30Jan
Let’s give you links on this very cold morning on the East Coast. I’m cold as the boiler in my house is malfunctioning again, but hopefully, it’ll get warm later. Brad Adgate of Advertising Age says the ratings for the...
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Well! What do we have here? Yes, it’s the very first scenes of Lost Season 6, picking up where Lost Season 5 left off. We know that Juliet fell down the hatch, seriously injured and managed to set off the...
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This release came on Thursday and normally, I would receive it on Wednesday and because I’ve been busy, I haven’t been able to post it until now so I’ll do some editing so this won’t be out of date. NFL...
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30Jan
I have some releases for next week’s programming so instead of letting them pile up and take up space in the Fang’s Bites inbox, let’s post them now so I can free up room. I’ll begin with ESPN2′s season premiere...
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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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29Jan
Saturday, January 30 BoxingLight Heavyweight Bout, Glen Johnson vs. Yusuf Mack – HBO, 10 p.m. College Basketball Viewing Picks College Football2010 Senior Bowl – NFL Network, 4 p.m. English Premier League Fulham vs. Aston Villa – ESPN2, 10 a.m.Birmingham vs....
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Men’s Basketball schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports on TV Saturday, January 30 College Gameday live from Manhattan, KS – ESPN, 11 a.m. noonMarquette at UConn – Big East Network James Madison at George Mason – Comcast Network/Comcast SportsNet New...
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College Basketballmen’sNiagara at Canisius – ESPNU, 7 p.m.Butler at Wisconsin-Green Bay – ESPNU, 9 p.m. women’sMarist at Canisius – ESPNU, 4:30 p.m.Boston College at Clemson – Fox Sports Florida Plus/Fox Sports South, 6:30 p.m.Florida State at Duke – Fox Sports...
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With the women’s final in the Australian Open set between Serena Williams and Justine Henin, ESPN2 asked analysts Mary Jo Fernandez and Pam Shriver for their thoughts on the match which will take place Saturday morning at 3:30. Serena vs....
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Let’s do the linkage for this Thursday. Got off to a late start, but that’s due to some overdue paperwork I had to complete. Now that it’s done, I can do some linkage for you. Let’s begin with USA Today’s...
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As the official satellite radio partner of the National Football League, Sirius XM Satellite Radio plans plenty of shows live from Miami, site of this year’s Super Bowl XLIV. Two channels, Mad Dog Radio and Sirius NFL Radio will be...
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If you thought the NFL Network was going to have Super Bowl Week all to itself, think again. ESPN has made public its plans for the entire week in South Florida. It begins with its return to the Pro Bowl,...
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When I saw my inbox and a press release from NBC Sports, I was hoping it would be the talent roster for the Vancouver Winter Olympics. Instead, this is regarding the viewer research NBC Universal will conduct throughout the 17...
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In honor of the upcoming Super Bowl, I use Roman numerals to signify that we have reached 20 podcasts. That’s rather impressive. In this week’s podcast, Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal and I talk about the monster ratings for...
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College Basketballmen’sDuquense at Xavier – CBS College Sports, 7 p.m.Wisconsin at Purdue – ESPN, 7 p.m.Seton Hall at South Florida – ESPN2, 7 p.m.St. John’s at Pittsburgh – ESPNUWake Forest at Georgia Tech – Fox Sports Florida/Fox Sports South/NESN, 7...
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This weekend, CBS Sports gets back into the PGA Tour. For as long as CBS has been broadcasting sports, it has aired golf. Other sports have come and gone, MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, College Basketball and Football, Olympics, but the...
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If you saw Monday’s 24 episode, you’ll know about Renee being in an extremely dark place, not caring about her life. In this sneak peek for next week’s episode, Jack is concerned and wants Hastings to pull Renee from the...
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I haven’t done a Musical Interlude in a very long time. Seeing a story on the Super Bowl Halftime set gave me some inspiration tonight. The Super Bowl Halftime Set List is supposed to be a guarded secret until Halftime...
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Opening sequence: Farhad calls a General loyal to him in Kamistan – B. Sergei Bazhaev cares for his younger son, while his other son Josef wants to take him to a doctor – B. Sergei allows Josef to take him...
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Two years ago, the BBC put out one of the coolest Olympic promos using animation from the same house that did the Gorillaz videos. It came out just recently with another very cool animation for the 2010 Winter Games using...
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