Monthly Archives: April 2009

Fox Gets Ready For Baseball Season

Saturday is the season premiere of MLB on Fox or known in some parts as Fox Saturday Baseball. Earlier this week, I gave you the Fox season schedule. Now we get some notable quotables from Fox on the first week of MLB action. Don’t forget the 20 minute studio show hosted by Jeanne Zelasko and […]

Wednesday Links While Watching The Masters

Getting ready to watch the Par 3 Contest at The Masters online. And earlier, I was working at the home office so again got delayed. So I’m here now and ready to give you linkage. From USA Today’s The Huddle blog, a look at Comcast and the NFL Network ramping up their war of words […]

NESN Sets Ratings Record for Red Sox Season Opener

This comes from the New England Sports Network regarding Tuesday’s Red Sox season opener. Great numbers for NESN. NESN’s coverage of yesterdays Red Sox opening day win garnered a 17.9 average household rating in the Boston DMA setting an opening day record. The previous best opening day game rating was 17.6 on 4/3/05, a game […]

Primetime & Late Night Viewing Picks

GolfThe Masters/Par 3 Contest – ESPN, 3 p.m.Live From The Masters/News Conferences – Golf Channel, 4 p.m.Live From The Masters – Golf Channel, 6 p.m.The Haney Project – Golf Channel, 8 p.m. MLB American LeagueTampa Bay at Red Sox – ESPN2/Sun Sports/NESN, 7 p.m.Detroit at Toronto – Fox Sports Detroit Plus/Rogers Sportsnet, 7 p.m.New York […]

Lots and Lots of Press Release

Because of the busy work schedule yesterday and today, I really haven’t been able to post as many press releases. I’ll post what has piled into the inbox over the last two days. Starting with HBO Sports, it has another fascinating documentary subject, Theodore Samuel Williams, the best hitter that ever lived. And I notice […]

A Tuesday Night Linkfest

Because work was busy in both the home and regular office, I could not do links today. Plus, I worked until 4 a.m. today and got a late start out of the house so I felt behind the 8 ball until I got home. Let’s do some links now and also catch up on some […]

The Masters on Sirius XM

This week, Sirius XM’s PGA Tour Radio will air The Masters live. Check out the press release: SIRIUS XM RADIO TO BROADCAST THE 2009 MASTERS LIVE NATIONWIDE SIRIUS XM hosts will offer daily analysis throughout Masters Week NEW YORK – April 7, 2009 – SIRIUS XM Radio announced today that it will offer live hole-by-hole […]

2009 MLB on Fox Schedule

Here’s the MLB on Fox schedule that begins this Saturday. 2009 MLB on FOX REGULAR SEASON BROADCAST SCHEDULE (Note: Schedule Subject to Change; All Times 4:00 PM Eastern unless otherwise noted *) *** Updated as of April 7, 2009 *** Saturday, April 11, 2009 Boston Red Sox at Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Minnesota Twins […]

Primetime & Late Night Viewing Picks

College Basketball (Our Final Game of the Season) NCAA Women’s ChampionshipNCAA Women’s Basketball Championship Special – ESPN, 7:30 p.m.UConn vs. Louisville – ESPN, 8:30 p.m. MLB American LeagueKansas City at Chicago White Sox – Fox Sports Kansas City/Comcast SportsNet Chicago, 2 p.m.Tampa Bay at Red Sox – Fox Sports Florida/NESN, 4 p.m.Detroit at Toronto – […]

One Shining Moment – 2009

The NCAA Championship Game turned out to be dud as North Carolina beat up on Michigan State. But this year’s One Shining Moment video did not disappoint. I’ve been waiting for CBS to post this video, but in the meantime, I’ll embed this version. Greg Gumbel dedicated this year’s version to CBS Sports Creative Director […]

Interview with Andy Gresh of Sirius XM Radio

Here’s an e-mail interview with the night time host Andy Gresh of Sirius XM’s Mad Dog Radio. Andy hosts the 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. shift. Before he joined Sirius XM in January, Andy had been doing weekends at ESPN Radio, and before that, he was morning drive host at WSKO AM/FM in Providence, RI, […]

Fang's Bites' Grade for 24, Season 7, Hour 17, 12 a.m. – 1 a.m.

Opening Sequence: Confrontation between Moss, Tony, FBI and Starkwood at the Starkwood compound – A. Hodges comes out to yell at Moss – A. Hodges tells Moss he has five minutes to get off his property – A. Jack finds that Douglas Knowles wants to help take down Starkwood – A. Jack calls Knowles – […]

Masters Moments, Part 5

Our last Masters Moments post. Again, thanks to CBS Sports for posting them at YouTube. This Masters Moment looks at Jose Maria Olazabal, the second Spaniard to win two Green Jackets at The Masters. Phil Mickelson got the Major monkey off his back by winning the 2004 Masters, then solidified his place in history by […]

Masters Moments, Part 4

Let’s give you some more Masters Moments as produced by CBS Sports and narrated by Jim Nantz. We remember Ben Crenshaw winning in 1984 and then winning again in 1995 during the same week that his teacher, Harvey Penick passed away. Jim looks at some of the notable amateurs who have played in The Masters. […]

Masters Moments, Part 3

More Masters Moments from CBS Sports with your host Jim Nantz. Jim looks back at 1934 and the first tournament’s winner, Horton Smith. Heading back to 1961 when Gary Player became the first international golfer to win The Masters. Jim Nantz tells us about Jimmy Demaret, the first three time winner of The Masters. Your […]

Masters Moments, Part 2

Here are more Masters Moments from CBS Sports. Jim Nantz voices them. Let’s go back to 1979 and Fuzzy Zoeller’s win in his first Masters. In 1996, Greg Norman choked away a 6 shot lead and lost to Nick Faldo. I could be really mean about this, but saying Norman choked is enough. This Masters […]

Masters Moments, Part 1

I have to give credit to CBS for posting some video vignettes that will be shown this week during its Masters coverage. I’ll post them as they become available. I was actually looking for Amazing Race videos for Reality Fan Forum and came across these clips. Jim Nantz narrates them all. Here’s one on three […]

The L Word: Max's Interrogation

Yes, I’m still posting The L Word interrogation tapes although it appears we’ll never know who killed Jenny Schecter. This is Max’s interrogation and it adds nothing. Thank you, Ilene Chaiken. And we’ll apparently never find out who’s responsible for Jenny’s death because Showtime will not buy Ilene’s pilot, “The Farm” which was to star […]

Sneaking in A Few More Monday Links

Ok, I’m at the home office and I’ve been waiting to do a couple of things. I’ll try to sneak in a couple of links here. I’m also going to sneak in two more links from the Sports Business Journal. John Ourand writes about ESPN’s construction of their new Los Angeles headquarters. And John joins […]

A Tradition Unlike Any Other … The Masters on CBS Sports

Here’s a press release on CBS Sports’ coverage of The Masters. There are certain times of the calendar that are owned by one network. January usually goes to Fox and CBS for the NFL, March and early April to CBS for the NCAA Tournament and The Masters and so forth. When you hear this music, […]

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