0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/21/2011
Friday night, you’ll be tired from the Thanksgiving holiday, the silly start to the Christmas shopping season and maybe even the football games. What better way to get a change of pace than to get a 12 minute sneak peek of HBO Sports’ award-winning 24/7 series on the upcoming NHL Winter Classic pitting the New […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/13/2011
Last night after the controversial majority decision handing boxer Manny Pacquaio a controversial win over Juan Manuel Marquez, HBO Sports went to conduct post fight interviews. Marquez left the ring furious, however, boxing charlatan Max Kellerman found him in his locker room. But by the time Marquez had reached what he thought was the sanctity […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/9/2011
I owe you some links having not been able to do them either Monday or Tuesday. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand talks about the ratings for LSU-Alabama not being as high as the previous #1 vs. #2 college football Game of the Century. The great Richard Deitsch at Sports Illustrated has his Media Power List for […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/20/2011
I’ll give you some linkage. Won’t be able to give you a whole set, but I’ll give you what I can as I have to do the Friday features, Primetime & Late Night Viewing Picks, College Football Viewing Picks, NFL Viewing Picks and Weekend Viewing Picks tonight. I won’t be able to blog extensively on […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/19/2011
I appreciate you still visiting Fang’s Bites as I’ve been trying to keep the site updated for you. Linkage has been scarce since Sunday. Been busy helping my sister with her son and then I was out for most of the morning. Time to provide you with some linkage. Michael Hiestand of USA Today says […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/18/2011
Bryant Gumbel has used his closing comments on Real Sports to go after the late NFL Players Association head Gene Upshaw, Roger Clemens, and so many others. Tonight, he went after NBA Commissioner David Stern and his handling of the lockout. He started by calling Stern, “The NBA’s infamously egocentric Commissioner” and Gumbel practically called […]
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The Emmy Award-winning HBO Sports magazine Real Sports returns tonight with two new stories and one updated feature. The main story will focus on Jerry West and his very candid autobiography. Bryant Gumbel will interview the man simply known as “The Logo” as he’s the man who adorns the NBA logo. Then Andrea Kremer updates […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/16/2011
Let’s provide the links on this Sunday. Tim Goodman in the Hollywood Reporter writes about how the MLB Postseason remains compelling even without big market teams. Mike Reynolds from Multichannel News notes that Game 4 of the National League Championship Series became the third most watched NLCS game on cable. John Eggerton of Multichannel says […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/15/2011
Let’s do some Saturday linkage for you today. Since Wednesday, I’ve been trying to trying catch up here. John Ourand of Sports Business Daily/Sports Business Journal notes that the NFL and Time Warner Cable have ended carriage talks on NFL Network without an agreement. Phil Swann at TV Predictions says Time Warner Cable failed to […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/1/2011
Two middleweight bouts will be seen tonight on HBO as World Championship Boxing returns to the airwaves. Fans will see Sergio Martinez take on Darren Barker and before that, it’ll be Andy Lee squaring off against Brian Vera. It’ll air at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT on HBO. HBO SPORTS® PRESENTS A MIDDLEWEIGHT DOUBLEHEADER WHEN […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/26/2011
During the press conference announcing the NHL Winter Classic between the New York Rangers and Philadelphia Flyers at Citizens Bank Park, it was unveiled that HBO will bring back 24/7 Road to the Winter Classic which was so successful for the Washington Capitals-Pittsburgh Penguins game on New Year’s Day this year. Now for the January […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/23/2011
Our last press release post for tonight deals with HBO’s reair of the wacky and insane ending to the Floyd Mayweather-Victor Ortiz fight. Last week, Mayweather knocked out Ortiz at the end of the 4th round. This was after the referee penalized Ortiz for a head butt and Ortiz tried to apologize and was not […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/10/2011
HBO is going to be flush with boxing today. It’s a double dose of World Championship Boxing as HBO goes live at 4:45 p.m. with a fight from Europe involving heavyweight Vitali Klitschko. Then at 10:30 p.m., HBO has live boxing action from Atlantic City with a featherweight bout between Yuriorkis Gamboa and Daniel Ponce […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/31/2011
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 for now. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand looks at NBC’s plans to provide live online coverage […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/30/2011
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 Ravens training camp with then-coach Brian Billick and linebacker Ray Lewis. The show has evolved […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/16/2011
The Emmy Award-winning Real Sports returns to HBO tonight with three new stories and an update from 2008. The main attraction is an interview that host Bryant Gumbel conducted with New York Jets wide receiver Plaxico Burress. It’s already getting some mileage and I’ll have a video preview in this post. First, the text preview […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/12/2011
In hopes of bringing boxing to a wider audience, HBO’s Time Warner corporate cousin, CNN will be replaying the network’s award-winning 24/7 series for the first time. Starting on August 27 at midnight, CNN will show weekly replays off 24/7 Mayweather-Ortiz in advance of the Floyd “Money” Mayweather-Victor Ortiz fight that will be held in […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/30/2011
Both HBO Sports and NFL Films announced that due to the NFL lockout, there won’t be a Hard Knocks series for this season, but to help fans get their reality training camp fix, both companies have said that there will be a 10th anniversary show that will air in August. The show has featured the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/29/2011
I’m hoping to get this entire Megalink session finished in one sitting. It’s been a crazy day thus far. Of course, all of your weekend sport and entertainment programming are featured in the Weekend Viewing Picks. Let’s get to the linkage now. National Michael Hiestand of USA Today speaks with noted baseball announcing author Curt […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/26/2011
Today was just too busy as I was in between two offices and had to run errands for most of the day. I apologize for not bringing these links earlier, but I do have time now so let’s get to them. Steve Wieberg of USA Today writes that the NCAA is now looking into the […]
