0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/12/2008
Time to give you some links on this Monday. USA Today’s Michael McCarthy says Versus is interested in tracking pucks during NHL coverage next season. Richard Sandomir of the New York Times has details of the ESPN/Tennis Channel contract with the US Open. John Ourand and Daniel Kaplan of Sports Business Journal have a story […]
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The United States Tennis Association, ESPN and the Tennis Channel have all announced a new deal that gives the U.S. Open a new home starting in 2009. Just as ESPN2 and Tennis Channel have sharing agreements on the first three Grand Slam tennis tournaments of the year, the two entities will also share the rights […]
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Coming up this week, the major sporting event is the second leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown, the Preakness Stakes. NBC Sports which has had a nice run of sporting events this month which started with the Kentucky Derby and will continue through mid-June’s U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, will air the race with its […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/11/2008
The Boston/New England Emmy Awards were handed out Saturday night at the Marriot Copley Place Hotel in Boston. I am going to list the winners in the sports category. For those who want to find the complete list of winners in Newscast, Spot News and other categories, you can go the Boston/New England Emmy website. […]
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I hope you’re treating your mom to a nice lunch or dinner today. As we get to our links, don’t forget who helped to put you into this world. Of course, we’ll remember dad next month too. He had a role as well. Getting to our links, Bob Raissman of the New York Daily News […]
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Forgot to give highlights of Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals between the Flyers and Penguins so here they are. Joe Beninati called the game for Versus. And here’s Game 2 of Dallas-Detroit with Mike Emrick on the call. I’ll have the Game 2 highlights of Philadelphia-Pittsburgh on Monday.
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Last week, I showed you various ABC Monday Night Football Opens. Today, it’s NBC’s turn. We can go back to 1973 to show the various opens and closes of and go to the present day. This will actually be quite fun so let’s get started. This is the open from 1973 with some pretty funky […]
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I’m back after being away for most of the day. But after I thought I could get away with not providing links today, I find enough news to warrant an update. Barry Horn of the Dallas Morning News talks with NFL Films President Steve Sabol about Hard Knocks which returns to filming the Cowboys training […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/10/2008
Here is the slate of exhibition games for the 2008 NFL Preseason. It all starts on August 3 with the Hall of Fame Game on NBC. All times are Eastern. HALL OF FAME WEEKEND SUN, AUG 3 TIME (ET) TV Indianapolis vs. Washington 8:00 PM NBC WEEK 1 THU, AUG 7 TIME (ET) TV NY […]
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ESPN can truly say it’s the Grand Slam network now. According to Jon Lafayette of TV Week, ESPN and the Tennis Channel will share the cable rights to the U.S. Open starting next year. A formal announcement will be made early next week. USA Network which had been the cable rightsholder will end its long […]
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I’ll give you some links tonight. It looks like I won’t be here to give you Saturday links until late so I may give you something else in the interim when you wake up. First, from Darren Rovell of CNBC, he wonders if Michelle Wie is truly done as a viable and marketable commodity. Considering […]
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Saturday, May 10 BoxingShowtime Championship Boxing/WBC Super Lightweight Bout – Showtime, 10:45 p.m. GolfLPGA Tour/Michelob Ultra Open, 3rd Round – ESPN2, 2 p.m.PGA Tour/The Players Championship, 3rd Round – NBC, 2 p.m. Indy CarIndianapolis 500 Pole Day – ESPN2, noon/ABC, 3 p.m./ESPN2, 6 p.m. MLBNew York Yankees at Detroit – Fox, 3:55 p.m.St. Louis at […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/9/2008
Here are the highlights from last night’s Western Conference Finals, Game 1 between Dallas and Detroit. Mike Emrick had the call on Versus.
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MLB New York Yankees at Tigers – YES/FSN Detroit, 7 p.m.Toronto at Cleveland – Rogers Sportsnet/STO, 7 p.m.Anaheim at Tampa Bay – FSN Florida, 7 p.m.Cincinnati at New York Mets – FSN Ohio/SNY, 7 p.m.Atlanta at Pittsburgh – SportSouth/FSN Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.Florida at Washington – Sun Sports/MASN, 7:30 p.m.Red Sox at Minnesota – NESN/FSN North, […]
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Another edition of Real Sports runs this Monday. I’ll have a real time review when it airs. But here are the segments that will run on Monday’s edition. REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL INVESTIGATES THE SLAUGHTER OF THOROUGHBRED HORSES FOR PROFIT, PROFILES TENNIS STAR VENUS WILLIAMS, FOLLOWS THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN OF FORMER NBA STAR KEVIN […]
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Let’s give you the Friday media links. It’s another busy weekend for both viewing and awards as the New England Emmy Awards will be handed out on Saturday. I’ll have a list as soon as it’s made available. In the meantime, let’s go over your viewing weekend. Weekend Viewing Picks One of the bigger events […]
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I’m going to try to give you some links in between segments of Lost. Here we go. Ted Hearn of Multichannel News reports that FCC Chairman Kevin Martin will not adopt any special rules to help the NFL Network in its fight against Comcast. Newsday’s Neil Best says YES Yankees analyst John Flaherty is looking […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/8/2008
One of the funniest pieces of video circulating the internet today is the clip of Charles Barkley getting tricked by Ernie Johnson, Jr. on “Inside the NBA” on TNT Wednesday night. Thanks to Awful Announcing and Real Clear Sports for the video. I’m still laughing as I write this. Great stuff and kudos to EJ!
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I’ll give you some additional links on this late Thursday afternoon here on the East Coast. First, Newsday’s Neil Best says last week’s Game 4 of the Pittsburgh-New York Rangers series was the highest-rated and most watched NHL contest ever on Versus. Neil also looks at whether the sports blogosphere is a happy, chummy place. […]
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MLBRed Sox at Detroit – NESN/FSN Detroit, 7 p.m.Tampa Bay at Toronto – FSN Florida/Rogers Sportsnet, 7 p.m.Milwaukee at Florida – FSN Wisconsin/Sun Sports, 7 p.m.Baltimore at Kansas City – MASN/FSN Kansas City, 8 p.m.Washington at Houston – MASN2/FSN Houston, 8 p.mTexas at Seattle – FSN Southwest/FSN Northwest, 10 p.m.Baseball Tonight – ESPN2, 10 p.m. […]
