This is a very long press release from ESPN. Just without the actual schedule, the text below contains some 1,430 words. That’s a hefty press release. Anyway, ESPN is announcing here that the Big East Tournament will be aired on...
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Monthly Archives: February 2011
We have one more press release for you now. This deals with ESPN’s motorsports programming. Let’s check it out. Motorsports This Week on ESPN and ABC NASCAR Nationwide Series Live from Las Vegas on ABC The NASCAR Nationwide Series makes...
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Plenty of college basketball this week as conferences will end their regular season schedules. Lots of games. We have ESPN’s entire schedule for the week including all platforms, on TV and online below. Men’s College Basketball: Six of Top Nine...
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This week, the New Jersey Nets and Toronto Raptors head to England to play the very first two NBA regular season games in the UK. It’s all to promote the NBA in England and to help promote basketball in the...
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We have the original programming on Golf Channel this week including the season finale of The Haney Project plus other things for which you can set your DVR. Coming up on Golf Channel…Feb. 28-March 6 Final Exam for Limbaugh on...
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This Saturday, CBS will air Duke-North Carolina game in primetime, the last time it will be able to do so as ESPN takes over the ACC contract and ownership of all conference games starting next season through 2023-24. To go...
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During March, the new ESPN Sunday, Monday and Wednesday Night Baseball teams will debut. After Jon Miller and Joe Morgan were jettisoned from the Sunday Night Baseball booth, ESPN made wholesale changes to all of its baseball broadcast teams including...
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Versus has formally announced that it will air Thursday’s UFC Live card in Louisville, KY in the third dimension. This means about 45 people across the country will be able to see this. Anyway, it marks the first UFC card...
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28Feb
Let’s do some linkage on this rainy Monday in Southern New England. Such a drab day and I just can’t get started. Maybe it was due to watching The Oscars abortion last night. Anyway, here are your links to start...
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College Basketball men’s Villanova at Notre Dame – ESPN, 7 p.m. Morgan State at North Carolina A&T – ESPNU, 7 p.m. Kansas State at Texas – ESPNU, 9 p.m. Jackson State at Arkansas-Pine Bluff – ESPNU, 9 p.m. women’s Morgan...
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It’s snowing in Southern New England, nothing major, but it’s a major annoyance. It means I’ll be shoveling out later, but for now, I’ll do linkage for you. Mike Reynolds from Multichannel News says Versus will be stepping into the...
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Sirius XM Radio will have two of its sports channels airing shows live from both Arizona and Florida throughout Spring Training. MLB Network Radio and Mad Dog Radio combined will hit all 30 teams. We have the schedule of shows...
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This coming from ESPN, its Big East Football schedule on its family of networks. Overall, 14 games spread over the Mothership, ESPN2 and ABC. Here’s the sked. ESPN Announces 14 BIG EAST College Football Telecasts for 2011 ESPN announced 14...
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One very nice feature of this year’s NHL Trade Deadline is having Yahoo’s PuckDaddy Radio on top of all of the news. Friend of Fang’s Bites Greg Wyshynski will host five and a half hours of coverage starting at 10...
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CBC will have coverage Monday of the NHL Trade Deadline on its cable channel, bold, and online at CBCSports.ca/hockey. In addition, coverage will be heard on Sirius Channels 97 and 127. It all begins at 9 a.m. Monday with your...
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Let’s provide the Friday megalinks. Lots of things to get to. We, of course, provide the Weekend Viewing Picks for your sports and entertainment weekend programming. Now let’s get to the linkage from across the country. National Brian Steinberg of...
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Just out only 24 hours for the Android and iOS platforms, MLB At Bat ’11 has become the top-selling non-gaming app for both the iPad and iPhone. That’s despite a hefty $14.99 pricetag. It would be nice if MLB stopped...
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The 2011 NASCAR season is now underway and the Fox Sports crew is heading to Phoenix this weekend for the Subway Fresh Fit 500. We have what Fox is saying about the race. FOX SPORTS NOTES, QUOTES & ANECDOTES NASCAR...
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It’s like a summit of golf announcers. You have Dan Hicks, Johnny Miller and Roger Maltbie from NBC, Nick Faldo from Golf Channel and CBS and Brandel Chamblee from Golf Channel, all together sharing the same stage to talk about...
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Continuing with its policy of airing teams that from the Eastern and Central time zones, NBC has selected Chicago at Washington as its NHL Game of the Week for March 13. While last week’s Hockey Day in America did give...
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Received this press release from the National Hockey League in regards to its outdoor event in Canada last week, the Heritage Classic. While temperatures were cold and the ice was chippy, fans across Canada watched the game in droves, outdistancing...
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We have two announcements from MLB.com. One which many of you know about already, that the MLB At Bat mobile and tablet app for the 2011 season is out. While it carries a very hefty $14.99 price tag, it’s already...
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25Feb
Saturday, February 26 Boxing Championship Boxing/WBA Lightweight Championship: Brandon Rios vs. Miguel Acosta – Showtime, 10 p.m. College Basketball Viewing Picks College Hockey Bemidji State at North Dakota – Fox College Sports, 4:30 p.m. Vermont at Boston University – NESN,...
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Men’s Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Saturday, February 26 College Gameday, live from Blacksburg, VA – ESPNU, 10 a.m./ESPN, 11 a.m. 11 a.m. Bowling Green at Miami (OH) – ESPNU noon Syracuse at Georgetown – CBS Boston College at...
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Before Thursday’s NBA doubleheader, TNT’s studio crew of Ernie Johnson, Jr., Charles Barkley, Kevin McHale and Kenny “The Jet” Smith all discussed the Trade Deadline and the heavy activity that took place before the final whistle blew on all trades...
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College Basketball men’s Siena at Fairfield – ESPN2, 7 p.m. Detroit at Wright State – ESPNU, 7 p.m. Iona at St. Peter’s – ESPNU, 9 p.m. College Hockey Niagara at Rochester Institute of Technology – CBS College Sports, 7:30 p.m....
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This is just hilarious. I happened upon this video in the UK magazine, Monkey Magazine for the iPad and luckily, we have found this on YouTube. This is the crew of the Belgian Frigate F931 Louise-Marie doing a video to...
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This story was broken not by ESPN, not by a sports media writer, but the co-author of the upcoming book on ESPN, James Andrew Miller. In a tweet that took most everyone covering the sports media by surprise, Miller announced...
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Former Green Bay Packers executive Andrew Brandt joins ESPN as an analyst on NFL business affairs. With 25 years experience in pro football, Brandt will speak about the salary cap, trades, contract negotiations and any dealings having to do with...
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Continuing a buying spree that includes Tour de France, the Euro 2012 and ’14 Championships and Major League Soccer, TSN has announced that it has acquired the Canadian rights to the NCAA Tournament. If I remember right, the NCAA Tournament...
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