ESPN put out a press release wishing a Happy 80th Birthday to college football analyst Beano Cook. Beano has been with the network dating back to 1986 and while he doesn’t appear on TV like he used to, he’ll be...
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Monthly Archives: August 2011
College football begins in earnest on Thursday night and CBS Sports Network will start its season with a two New England rivals, Holy Cross taking on the University of Massachusetts live from Worcester, MA. And on Saturday, CBS Sports Network...
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On Wednesday, lead NFL on Fox analyst Troy Aikman along with Jimmy Johnson and Michael Strahan of Fox NFL Sunday took part in a media conference call to talk about the upcoming NFL season. In addition, Fox Sports Media Group...
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Golf Channel will have three tournaments to air this weekend including the PGA Tour’s Deutsche Bank Championship in Norton, MA which is about 40 minutes away from me. It’ll be the second leg of the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup. And...
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This week on NFL Network will conclude the NFL preseason. The network will have three live games and finish the rest of the preseason with taped games over the weekend. Then it’s time to get ready for the regular season....
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The inaugural season of Fox College Football Game of the Week kicks off Saturday on FX. Gus Johnson along with Charles Davis and Tim Brewster will be on hand for the first of 14 regular season games on the network....
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Fans won’t see all three, but one of the trio of games being offered by the Fox Television Network. Most of the country, almost ¾ of the country will see a potential postseason matchup between the Texas Rangers and the...
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This was unveiled today by Fox Sports. It’s the new open for Fox NFL Sunday complete with Cleatus the Robot, who by the way is on Twitter. I kid you not. Anyway, this is the opening complete with the iconic...
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I’m going to try to do some Wednesday linkage here. Also have a lot of end of the month/beginning of the month crap to do at work some I’m balancing the two off. Here are the links that I have...
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The rumors about Fox Sports airing English Premier League games during NFL season are indeed true. On three Sundays, Fox will air EPL games either at 2 p.m. or 4:30 p.m. Eastern time to fill holes when it has regional...
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Might as well complete the sequence as ESPN continues to pump out college basketball schedules. This is for the women’s side of Big Monday which usually airs on ESPN2. There will be 12 games shown on ESPN2 including three doubleheaders...
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Continuing a partnership that dates back to 1979, ESPN and the Big East Conference have announced the 2012 Big Monday and the entire 2011-12 men’s basketball schedule on the network’s various platforms. With ESPN having the rights to all of...
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This just in from the NBC Sports Group and I thank the fine people at its PR department for sending this press release to me. We’ve been hearing drips and drabs about Versus’ new original programming that will premiere in...
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Continuing its policy of announcing its live game schedule for the final two months of the regular season to assure the best possible matchups, MLB Network has just announced what it will air for the Labor Day holiday doubleheader and...
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With the other NFL TV partners finished with their preseason schedules, it’s up to NFL Network to take care of your football jones this week. NFL Network will have three live games, a Thursday night doubleheader and then a live...
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Cycling Vuelta a España, Stage 11 — Universal Sports, 10 a.m. MLB American League Kansas City at Detroit — Fox Sports Detroit, 1 p.m. Minnesota at Chicago White Sox — Fox Sports North/WGN America, 2 p.m. New York Yankees at...
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This in from the NBC Sports Group, Golf Channel will produce a live pregame show for NBC that will a half-hour prior to the third and final rounds of the Tour Championship, the year-ending tournament that will “crown” a winner...
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So due to Hurricane Irene, the New York Jets-New York Giants game at the New Meadowlands Stadium had to be rescheduled from Saturday to Monday. And with the move, the game received a national audience thanks to NFL Network. With...
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On Wednesday, HBO will air a retrospective looking back at 10 years of “Hard Knocks”, the reality show produced by NFL Films that looks inside various training camps. The show debuted in 2001 with NFL Films going into the Baltimore...
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I hope I get this weekly because this is a good press release from ESPN regarding its upcoming college sports programming. We get plenty of updates on the studio shows, where College GameDay is heading and the games that will...
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Earlier today, NBC’s Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth from Sunday Night Football and Tony Dungy and Rodney Harrison from Football Night in America talked about the 2011 schedule as well as what they expect to see in the upcoming season....
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Yesterday about 2 p.m., I got the power back at the Fang’s Bites abode and after walking around the neighborhood, I saw that I was quite lucky in not getting any tree limbs falling on my house or any leaks...
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This fall, Big Ten Network will be airing what’s known as its “Football Fix” block which will air every weeknight on BTN starting at 7 ET. Shows will be hosted by College Football Hall of Fame broadcaster Keith Jackson and...
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This just in from NBC Sports, we learn that Dick Ebersol protégé, Jim Bell, has been tapped to produce the 2012 London Olympics. Bell’s current duties are with the Today show as Executive Producer, but before he went to NBC...
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Starting today, ESPN3.com will be airing games in the FIBA Americas and FIBA European Basketball Championships. Both are qualifying tournaments for the FIBA World Championships and the Olympics. And when FIBA Americas reaches the semifinal stage, ESPN2 will pick up...
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Cycling Vuelta a España, Race Review — Universal Sports, 10 a.m. MLB American League Kansas City at Detroit — Fox Sports Kansas City/Fox Sports Detroit, 7 p.m. New York Yankees at Boston — MLB Network/WWOR/NESN, 7 p.m. Oakland at Cleveland...
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Can you imagine 44 games in a span of five days? That’s right, 44 games in five days spanning ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN3.com. It begins with a Thursday night doubleheader on ESPNU and one game on ESPN, then...
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Coming up in September, legendary announcer Dick Enberg will receive the Eugene L. Scott Award by the International Tennis Hall of Fame. As this is Enberg’s last year for calling both Wimbledon and the U.S. Open, Enberg will be honored...
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In September, NFL Films will air a two-part documentary focusing on New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick. Throughout the 2009 season, NFL Films was given full-season access to Belichick, wiring him for sound. This made Belichick the very first coach...
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Under its new contract with the Atlantic Coast Conference that takes effect this season, ESPN now has the rights to all men’s basketball games. ESPN has sold off some rights to cable syndication of which Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic has signed...
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