0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/18/2010
The great people at HBO Sports sent some quotes from some of their documentaries in 2010 as well as the best commentary Bryant Gumbel had right after LeBron James made his decision known on national television. Take a look. 2010 YEAR IN REVIEW The HBO Sports documentary group presented three new high-profile films in 2010: […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/16/2010
I’ll provide some linkage for you today. This has nothing to do with sports media, just a very well written article by Sports Illustrated’s Joe Posnanski who shares his thoughts on Bob Feller who passed away Wednesday night at the age of 92. At the Wall Street Journal, Jason Gay facetiously writes that ESPN will […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/15/2010
Ok, I’ve been accumulating links when I finally got ready to provide them for you and I have enough that it’s time to bring them to you now. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand goes into two sports specials which are Pittsburgh-heavy. Austin Karp at Sports Business Daily notes that for the more part, college football ratings […]
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Thanks to the fine people at HBO Sports, we have a quick preview of tonight’s premiere of 24/7 Penguins/Capitals: Road To The NHL Winter Classic. Here’s what you’ll see on the episode. HBO SPORTS’ 24/7 PENGUINS/CAPITALS: ROAD TO THE NHL WINTER CLASSIC, A FOUR-EPISODE, ALL-ACCESS SERIES LEADING UP TO THE NEW YEAR’S DAY GAME AT […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/12/2010
Ok, been a crazy morning. Now that everything with New York Giants-Minnesota has been worked out, I can move on to other things. Let’s do your linkage. At ESPN.com, Greg Garber looks back at NBC’s experiment of an announcerless NFL game 30 years ago. Tim Graham at ESPN.com also has a story on the experiment. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/11/2010
This is a review of the joint NFL Films/HBO Sports documentary, “Lombardi” and it continues the line of excellent sports documentaries by HBO. Using extensive NFL Films footage as well as procuring some footage from his days at Fordham University as a player, we get the definitive TV look at the man who became a […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/8/2010
Let’s do some links on this Wednesday. I may do more this evening. First, Sports Business Daily points out that Monday Night Football received the 5th highest audience on cable this year. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand talks about ESPN’s plethora of bowls and discusses Captain Blowhard doing commentary on an NBA game this Friday. Barry […]
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Coming this Saturday, HBO Sports airs one of its highly anticipated documentaries, Lombardi. This is based on the best selling book, “When Pride Still Mattered” by David Maraniss and will explore his life and coaching career. I have a copy and expect a review before the documentary airs. HBO SPORTS® AND NFL FILMS EXAMINE THE […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/23/2010
Let do some linkage for you on this Tuesday. Short week for many of you so this is like a Thursday. Not me, but this is good. Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News writes that Bright House subscribers have begun to access the authenticated ESPN and ESPN3.com online. Multichannel News notes that Fox Soccer Channel will […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/22/2010
The last original edition of Real Sports airs this Tuesday on HBO. December’s edition is usually a year-ender. Let’s give you the stories that you’ll see on sports television’s best news magazine. REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL EXAMINES THE ANCIENT SPORT OF FALCONRY; PROFILES UCONN’S LADY HUSKIES HOOPS COACH GENO AURIEMMA; REVEALS THE PRACTICE OF […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/11/2010
HBO’s series on the preparation for the Manny Pacquaio/Antonio Margarito fight will end on Friday with the fight on pay per view on Saturday. We have a preview of the final installment of 24/7 Pacquaio/Margarito. 24/7 PACQUIAO/MARGARITO NOV. 12 EPISODE Episode #4 (series finale) Debut: FRIDAY, NOV. 12 (9:30-10:00 p.m. ET/PT) Other HBO playdates: Nov. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/4/2010
Ok, let’s do some links on this rainy Thursday in the Northeast. Time to look at what’s going on today. First from the Indiana University National Sports Journalism Center, Brian Hendrickson recaps a symposium in which Deadspin editor A.J. Daulerio was frank in a panel discussion on the whole Brett Favre/Jenn Sterger story. Philiana Ng […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/2/2010
This is a documentary I’ve been waiting for, whether it was explored by ESPN’s 30 for 30 or as we find out now, HBO Sports. In college basketball, one of the more controversial programs was the University of Las Vegas Runnin’ Rebels coached by “The Shark”, Jerry Tarkanian. Filled with players that other colleges would […]
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Two weeks from this coming Saturday, HBO Sports will air a 12 minute preview of the latest installment of its award-winning 24/7 series, this one on the NHL. The preview will air right after the conclusion of World Championship Boxing, so you might want to set your DVR’s. As is HBO’s policy, there will be […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/26/2010
Tonight on Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, correspondent Bernard Goldberg will head a feature on disgraced NFL agent Josh Luchs who told Sports Illustrated this month about his payoffs to potential clients while they were in college. Some of those Luchs named are big time NFL stars today. While some of whom Luchs named have […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/22/2010
This Tuesday, Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel returns with an all-new edition. Among the topics, disgraced NFL agent Josh Luchs sits down for his first TV interview since admitting to Sports Illustrated that he paid college players and the Florida Marlins’ embarrassing plea for public financing for a new ballpark after leaked documents to Deadspin […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/27/2010
It’s a rainy Monday in Southern New England. Certainly nothing compared to what’s going on in Minnesota and having gone through a 100 year flood earlier this year, my sympathies go out to those bailing out or having to leave their homes. I hope things get better real soon. Let’s do some linkage on this […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/24/2010
Let’s do your megalinks today. Lots to get to. There’s the Weekend Viewing Picks which contains the sports and entertainment choices for Saturday and Sunday. Now let’s get to the linkage. Lots of of it today. National From USA Today’s Game On blog, Mike McCarthy talks with the producer of new Lombardi Broadway play on […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/23/2010
I’m going to do a jump break after this paragraph because of the length of this the transcript of the conference call involving NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, NHL Chief Operating Officer John Collins, and HBO Sports President Ross Greenburg who all took part discussing Thursday’s announcement of the new edition of 24/7 Penguins/Capitals: Road To […]
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As I stayed up very late as news broke about the HBO 24/7 series on the NHL, I’m dragging, but I do it so you have fresh content when you wake up. And besides, the post has been getting quite a bit of mileage this morning with Puck Daddy, The Pensblog, and at NBC’s Pro […]
