0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/11/2011
The third matchup between bitter Mountain West rivals BYU and San Diego State University has the potential to be set as the Mountain West Conference semifinals are played tonight in Las Vegas. BYU takes on New Mexico. San Diego State plays UNLV. If BYU and San Diego State wins, it sets up their 3rd matchup […]
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Saturday, March 12 Boxing Miguel Cotto vs. Ricardo Mayorga – Pay per view, 9 p.m. World Championship Boxing/Middleweights, Sergiy Dzinziruk vs. Sergio Martinez – HBO, 10 p.m. College Basketball Viewing Picks College Hockey Hockey East Tournament Quarterfinals Maine at Merrimack – NESN, 7:30 p.m. WCHA Tournament 1st round Alaska-Anchorage at Minnesota – Fox Sports North, […]
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Men’s schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Saturday, March 12 College GameDay – ESPN2, 11 a.m./ESPN, noon men’s America East Championship Stony Brook at Boston University – ESPN2, noon ACC Tournament, Greensboro, NC Semifinals North Carolina vs. Clemson – ESPN/ACC Network, 1 p.m. Duke vs. Virginia Tech – ESPN/ACC Network, 3:30 p.m. Atlantic 10 Tournament, […]
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Arena Football Philadelphia at Pittsburgh – NFL Network, 8 p.m. College Basketball men’s ACC Tournament, Greensboro, NC North Carolina vs. Miami – ESPN2/ACC Network, noon Clemson vs. Boston College – ESPN2/ACC Network, 2:30 p.m. Duke vs. Maryland – ESPN2/ACC Network, 7 p.m. Florida State vs. Virginia Tech – ESPN2/ACC Network, 9:30 p.m. Atlantic 10 Tournament, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/10/2011
CBS Sports really ramps up for the NCAA Tournament with coverage of four conference championships this weekend. You have the A-10, Big 10, C-USA and the Pac 10 Championships. You’ll have Turner’s Steve Kerr joining CBS’ Jim Nantz and Clark Kellogg for the Big 10 Tournament semifinals on Saturday. That will be your Final Four […]
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This just in from NFL Network, we find that 6.6 million people watched last week’s Scouting Combine which is way up from the 5.2 million that watched last year. I only watch for Rich Eisen running the 40 on the last day, but this is stunning how people just love to watch the prospects for […]
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On Tuesday, the Portland Trail Blazers kept the tears pouring in Miami as they heat the Heat rather handily. It also became the most watched regular season game of 2010-11 for NBA TV. Overall, NBA TV says it had an average of 681,000 viewers on Tuesday. We have your press release. NBA TV’s March 8 […]
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Reported today by John Ourand of the Sports Business Daily, just in time for the NCAA Tournament, DirecTV announces it will pick up truTV’s game feeds in 21st Century, crystal clear, high definition. While truTV won’t be in full-time high def on DirecTV until later this year, at least the NCAA Tournament games will be […]
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It may not have the rights to the NCAA Tournament, but that won’t prevent ESPN from covering the event like a wet blanket all next week starting with Selection Sunday and a whole bunch of shows. To show you how committed ESPN is to the NCAA Tournament, it’s airing shows on all platforms, ESPN, ESPN2, […]
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Let’s do the Thursday links. Been up since 4 a.m. and I’m already dragging, but you don’t care. You want links so let’s provide them. USA Today’s Mike McCarthy has ESPN’s Mel Kiper really down on NFL quarterback prospect Cam Newton. Mike says ESPN and Sunday NFL Countdown analyst Cris Carter are negotiating a new […]
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Over the last two weeks, we’ve seen a few previews of the CBS/Turner partnership for the NCAA Tournament. I’ll write a column on how I think this will go, but the first real indication of what we’ll see between the two will come this Sunday during the NCAA Tournament Selection Show on CBS. As in […]
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As the conference tournaments peak into Selection Sunday, ESPN has gone wall-to-wall college basketball as the sport takes center stage from now until the beginning of April. Let’s look at the games and announcing schedule from today through Sunday. Championship Week All Times Eastern Standard/Schedule Subject to Change Date Network Time (ET) Game Site Play-by-Play […]
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This weekend, the FA Cup kicks into the knockout round with quarterfinal action headlined by Manchester United taking on English Premier League rival Arsenal on Saturday. The only non-EPL team that remains in the competition is Reading and that team is in action against Manchester City on Sunday. We have your schedule of live FA […]
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We have the programming schedule for NFL Network from today through next Tuesday. Lots of stuff to go over. The programming includes the premiere of Arena Football Fridays. NFL NETWORK & NFL.COM PROGRAMMING NOTES (3/10 – 3/15) “Arena Football Friday” Returns for Second Season on March 11 at 8:00 PM ET Top Prospects Patrick Peterson, […]
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One more post from National Geographic Channel. On Friday, NatGeo takes you to the great outdoors to show you one of the biggest catfish you’ll ever see and then head to Africa to search for a mythical swamp monster. Some interesting programming on Friday and you can get a preview right here. Fish Warrior: Catfish […]
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A couple of posts for National Geographic Channel which is one of my favorite non-sports channels along with Food Network and Cooking Channel. Let’s preview Ultimate Factories which premieres tonight. In the season premiere, Ultimate Factories takes you into the Jack Daniels distillery and shows us how the world famous whiskey is made. We have […]
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College Basketball men’s ACC Tournament, Greensboro, NC 1st round Virginia vs. Miami (FL) – ACC Network, noon Boston College vs. Wake Forest – ACC Network, 2:30 p.m. Maryland vs. NC State – ESPN2, 7 p.m. Virginia vs. Virginia Tech – ACC Network, 9:30 p.m. Big East Tournament, New York, NY Quarterfinals Pittsburgh vs. UConn – […]
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Since I had to get up early this morning to drive Dad to the airport, it gives me some extra time to post some stuff that I could not get to earlier in the week. So I give you tonight’s TNT Thursday Nitro NBA doubleheader. By the way, I used to love when TNT used […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/9/2011
Earlier today, we had the announcement of Adrian Healey being named as ESPN’s new voice of Major League Soccer. We now have the entire 2011 MLS regular season schedule on the ESPN family of networks and platforms. Most of the games will be on ESPN2 and all will be seen on the ESPN3.com broadband service. […]
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On Thursday, CBS College Sports jumps feet first into conference tournament action with coverage of the Atlantic 10, Conference USA, Mountain West and Patriot League Tournaments. Three men’s tournaments and two women’s tournaments will be aired. Lots of action and we have the games and announcing assignments for you. CBS COLLEGE SPORTS NETWORK TIPS OFF […]
