The NFL gave us a game at 11:35 p.m. ET on a Sunday earlier this season. Next year, it will attempt a game at 9:30 a.m. ET. That game will be played in London. In what could be a harbinger...
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Just announced today, SiriusXM will bring back NBA Radio on channel 217. NBA Radio had been part of the lineup of Sirius Satellite Radio, but then it abruptly went away. However, the only radio station totally devoted to the Association...
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05Dec
College Basketball Men’s Big 12/SEC Challenge West Virginia at Missouri — ESPN2, 7 p.m. TCU at Mississippi State — ESPNU, 7 p.m. Mississippi at Kansas State — ESPN2, 9 p.m. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi at Oklahoma — Fox Sports 1, 3...
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All Times Eastern Blackout: San Diego Thursday, December 5 Studio and Pregame Shows Around the League Live — NFL Network, 2 p.m. NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3 p.m. NFL Live — ESPN, 4 p.m. NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network,...
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All Times Eastern Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Announcing Assignments courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Thursday, December 5 Studio and Pregame Shows CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m. ESPNU All Access: Auburn Football — ESPNU, 4...
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This from NBC Sports. Two hires made this week for its NASCAR coverage which begins in 2015. First, NBC announced that Jeff Burton will leave full-time racing to become its on-air analyst. Burton is the 6th driver in NASCAR history...
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This from our friends at Fox Sports. All in-game ads for Super Bowl XLVIII at New Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey has been sold out. That means the game is sold out with just under two months until the game...
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This coming from Canada’s public broadcaster. CBC’s annual celebration of Canada’s game, the day-long Hockey Day in Canada will take place on January 18 from Lloydminster, Alberta/Saskatchewan in the Western part of the country. CBC will air four games involving...
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This Saturday, ESPN will air Major League Soccer’s MLS Cup live from Kansas City at 4 p.m. ET. You may think that time is interesting as it’s also the same time as the SEC Championship on CBS. Odd timing for...
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My friend Matt Yoder at Awful Announcing had this first today and now NBC has officially confirmed the assignments of three Olympic correspondents for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, a warm weather city in Russia that averages 50 degrees...
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Billiards Mosconi Cup — Fox Sports 2, 5 p.m. College Basketball Men’s Big Ten/ACC Challenge Maryland at Ohio State — ESPN 7 p.m. Wisconsin at Virginia — ESPN2, 7 p.m. Northwestern at North Carolina State — ESPNU, 7:30 p.m. North...
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We get this from Univision Deportes. The Spanish language all-sports network will have extensive coverage of the Final Draw for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The Final Draw will place the 32 qualified teams into 8 groups of four and...
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From ESPN, we have the first five analysts who will work the last FIFA™ World Cup on the Alleged Worldwide Leader until at least 2026. Some are familiar names such as Alexi Lalas, Steve McManaman and Taylor Twellman, veterans of...
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Starting today and through next Monday, NBCSN and its overflow Extra Time channels will cover a whole host of EPL games. Today, it’s Crystal Palace vs. West Ham United. On Wednesday, NBCSN airs Manchester United vs. Everton and then Extra...
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We are now in Championship Week for college football. Several conferences will have championship games and the ESPN Family of Networks will carry five such games this week. The ESPN Family college football schedule is highlighted by the ACC Championship...
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03Dec
College Basketball Men’s Big Ten/ACC Challenge Indiana at Syracuse — ESPN, 7:15 p.m. Illinois at Georgia Tech — ESPN2, 7:15 p.m. Penn State at Pittsburgh — ESPNU, 7:30 p.m. Michigan at Duke — ESPN, 9:15 p.m. Notre Dame at Iowa...
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The final Week 15 schedule is out and the National Broadcasting Company and the National Football League have jointly announced that there will be no primetime flex in Week 15. It means the originally scheduled game, Cincinnati at Pittsburgh will...
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This comes from Jonathan Tannenwald from Philly.com and his excellent “The Goalkeeper” blog. He reports that NBC is planning to join the bidding for the UEFA Champions League. Fox is the current rightsholder first gaining the rights in 2009 and...
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Announced this morning, CBS Sports Network will pick up WFAN’s morning show “Boomer and Carton” co-hosted by the NFL Today’s Boomer Esiason and Craig Carton. The show has been on the air since 2007 replacing the embattled “Imus in the...
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This from NBC Sports, English Premier League host Rebecca Lowe will branch out to sports other than soccer for the first time and become a weekday and weekend daytime host for NBCSN in Sochi come February. Lowe has been a...
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02Dec
College Basketball Men’s Florida at UConn — ESPN2, 7 p.m. Auburn at Iowa State — ESPNU, 7 p.m. UTPA at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville — Fox College Sports Central/Fox Sports Midwest, 8 p.m. Vanderbilt at Texas — ESPN2, 9 p.m. Mercer...
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We complete our Sunday NFL pregame quotage with NBC’s Football Night in America which had a plethora of subjects to discuss in its program. Check it all out. NOTES & QUOTES FROM “FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA” — WEEK 13 “This...
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We conclude the early Sunday NFL quotage with ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown. Some strange thoughts here. Sunday NFL Countdown Notes and Quotes: Week 13 Host Chris Berman and analysts Cris Carter, Mike Ditka, Tom Jackson, Keyshawn Johnson and Ron Jaworski...
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Before tonight’s New York Giants-DC NFL Team, NBC’s Football Night in America will review the day’s highlights and scores plus preview the Sunday Night Football game. Football Night in America host Bob Costas will interview Giants two-time Super Bowl winning...
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Now we move to the NFL on Fox and the quotage from the Fox NFL Sunday pregame show. FOX NFL SUNDAY NOTES – 12/1/13 Glazer Reports On Possible Punishment For Tomlin; Incognito-Martin Update; John Fox Return Bradshaw on the Lions:...
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Now to the CBS tandem of pregame shows, That Other Pregame Show on cable and the NFL Today on broadcast. Lots of discussions on the shows today. Check out the quotage we have for you on this Sunday. NEWS, NOTES...
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Let’s do some Sunday NFL pregame quotage for Week 13. We go to NFL Network and its brother-sister act of NFL GameDay First and NFL GameDay Morning. Here’s today’s notage and quotage from the Melissa Stark and Rich Eisen-fronted programs....
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Saturday’s Iron Bowl rivalry game between Alabama and Auburn drew very good numbers for the Columbia Broadcasting System. CBS saw an 8.6 overnight rating with an 18 share. That’s up a whopping 291% for last year’s Iron Bowl which resulted...
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Let’s do a few thoughts today in this last day of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. First, some thoughts and prayers to the victims and families who were in the Metro North train derailment in the Bronx in New York. Four...
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01Dec
College Basketball Men’s Global Sports Challenge Cal Poly at Oregon — Pac-12 Networks, 10 p.m. Old Spice Classic, Orlando, FL 7th Place Game Purdue vs. Siena — ESPN3, 5 p.m. 5th Place Game Washington State vs. St. Joseph’s — ESPNU,...
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