0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/21/2011
We have TNT’s quotes and notes from last night’s NBA All-Star Game which I’m sure many of you watched. I did not, but I’m probably in the minority of sports fan. I’m sure there will be ratings record set for this year’s game if the All-Star Saturday ratings are an indication. Here’s the press release […]
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College Basketball men’s Syracuse at Villanova – ESPN, 7 p.m. Arkansas Pine-Bluff at Prairie View A&M – ESPNU, 7 p.m. Oklahoma State at Kansas – ESPN, 9 p.m. Maryland Eastern-Shore at Morgan State – ESPNU, 9 p.m. women’s Arkansas Pine-Bluff at Prairie View A&M – ESPNU, 4:30 p.m. Georgia at Tennessee – ESPN2, 7 p.m. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/20/2011
Both the NHL and NBC have announced the “flex” game for the 12:30 p.m. Eastern time slot for March 6. Next Sunday, NBC will not have an NHL game as it will air the Match Play Championships. The next NHL game will be aired on March 6. You probably saw the promos during Hockey Day […]
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We have two press releases from Golf Channel so we’ll combine them into one post. First, we provide the guest list for Golf Channel’s Morning Drive. Morning Drive Gets Fans Ready for WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship With Expanded Coverage Live Reports Throughout the Week from The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club, Dove Mountain; Points, Oberholser and Rucker […]
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The NBA’s record ratings season continues with the most watched NBA All-Star Saturday in the history of the event. This goes back 26 years. And you want some impressive statistics? Last night’s average viewership totaled 8.1 million viewers, way up from last year’s average of 5.4 million. That’s a jump of 2.7 million viewers from […]
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We have the TNT’s quotage from its coverage of NBA All-Star Saturday which included the entire Skills Competition. Take a look at what was said last night. Notes from TNT’s Coverage of 2011 NBA All-Star – Saturday, February 19, 2011 The 2011 NBA All-Star weekend concludes on Sunday, February 20 at 8 p.m. (ET) with […]
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Let’s provide you with links on this Sunday. As I’m watching Food Network’s Giada at Home and before that, CBS News Sunday Morning, I can’t think of a better way to spend a Sunday morning. While I try to avoid being distracted by Giada, I’ll do some links. Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News says MSG […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/19/2011
I’m blogging from an anti-Asian bar in East Providence, RI. Just in from CBC. Don Cherry will return for at least one more season of Coach’s Corner on Hockey Night in Canada on CBC. CBC ANNOUNCES RENEWAL OF DON CHERRY ON HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA Toronto, February 19, 2011—CBC today announced that hockey’s best-known personality […]
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On Thursday, the nominations for the New York Emmy Awards were made public. What I’ll do is provide the nominations involving sports coverage, sports networks or sports features. If you want to see the entire list of nominations including the news categories, you can go here and download the entire list. Here are the sports […]
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On MLB Network on Monday, the channel will air a marathon of “MLB’s 20 Greatest Games”. It’ll air the series to date through the latest episode on Monday night. Basically, it will go from number 20 through number 13. Let’s see what games will be reviewed on the President’s Day holiday. MLB Network will re-air […]
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Just got back from an impromptu workday. I hate being called into work at the last second and it prevents me from blogging on the weekend. Anyway, we have some quotage from the good people at Turner Sports from Friday’s coverage of NBA All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles. TNT had coverage of the Rookie Challenge […]
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This weekend, CBS will have coverage of three games. Let’s see what they’re saying. CBS SPORTS COLLEGE BASKETBALL ACTION HIGHLIGHTED BY BIG TEN SHOWDOWN BETWEEN NO. 2-RANKED OHIO STATE AT NO. 11-RANKED PURDUE ON SUNDAY, JAN. 20 CBS Sports’ college basketball schedule continues on Saturday, Feb. 19 with regional action (1:00-3:00 PM, ET) featuring *No. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/18/2011
Ok, I have some time to do some blogging this evening and I figure I’ll do the Friday megalinks, something which has been sorely lacking here. Let’s get cracking on the links. As always, you can check the Weekend Viewing Picks for all of your weekend in sports and primetime TV. Now let’s do your […]
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After getting into a protracted dispute over rights fees, Fox Soccer Channel and Major League Soccer have come to a one year contract extension that keeps MLS on Fox for 2011. At one point, Fox Soccer Channel had balked at paying MLS’ request for $20 million a year. It looks like cooler heads have prevailed […]
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Starting now and going through April 2, Sirius XM will offer exclusive satellite radio coverage of the ICC Cricket World Cup. Now I don’t profess to know anything about cricket nor do I get the Chi of the sport, but there are many devoted fans here in the States and Sirius XM will provide live […]
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Set to music, the new ESPN “It’s Not Crazy, It’s Sports” spot featuring 27 college basketball coaches is quite good. This campaign showing the passion of fans now stretches to the college basketball world and I like this. Here it is so you can watch it. And if you’re wondering, the coaches are as follows: […]
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A couple of developing stories this morning on two well known names in the sports media. First, John Ourand of Sports Business Daily/Sports Business Journal tweeted details of the now not so secret ESPN.com-owned Bill Simmons project. .bbpBox38603023932456960 {background:url(http://a3.twimg.com/a/1297809080/images/themes/theme1/bg.png) #C0DEED;padding:20px;} p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px !important;line-height:22px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px} p.bbpTweet span.metadata{display:block;width:100%;clear:both;margin-top:8px;padding-top:12px;height:40px;border-top:1px solid #fff;border-top:1px solid #e6e6e6} p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author{line-height:19px} p.bbpTweet […]
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Saturday, February 19 Boxing Boxing After Dark Bantamweights: Nonito Donaire vs. Fernando Montiel – HBO, 9:45 p.m. College Basketball Viewing Picks College Hockey Western Michigan at Michigan – Fox Sports Detroit, 7:30 p.m. Maine at UMass-Lowell – NESN, 7:30 p.m. Minnesota at Wisconsin – Fox Sports North, 9 p.m. ESPN Sports Saturday 30 for 30 […]
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Men’s Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports on TV Saturday, February 19 College GameDay live from East Lansing, MI – ESPNU, 10 a.m./ESPN, 11 a.m. BracketBusters Hofstra at Wright State – ESPNU, 11 a.m. Austin Peay at Fairfield – ESPNU, 1 p.m. Iona at Liberty – ESPNU, 3 p.m. Missouri State at Valparaiso – ESPN2, […]
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Boxing Friday Night Fights – ESPN2/ESPN 3D, 9 p.m. College Basketball men’s BracketBusters Virginia Commonwealth at Wichita State – ESPN2, 7 p.m. Kent State at Drexel – ESPNU, 9 p.m. Princeton at Yale – YES, 7 p.m. UConn at Louisville – ESPN, 9 p.m. College Hockey New Hampshire at Vermont – CBS College Sports, 7:30 […]
