0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/2/2011
On Thursday, the PGA Tour comes East after spending the first two months in Hawaii and the West Coast. Now the Florida swing begins with the Honda Classic at Palm Beach Gardens. This marks the second tournament where Golf Channel and NBC Sports will collaborate. Kelly Tilghman returns to the 18th tower this weekend for […]
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Tennis Channel has announced that it will remain the home of the U.S. Davis Cup Tennis team through 2013 and to various team matchups through 2015 including the Davis Cup, Federation Cup and Hopman Cup. While these competitions don’t capture the sports fan’s imagination here, they are very popular abroad and can spur some fun […]
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Here are some Wednesday links today. Maury Brown from the Biz of Sports Network writes in Forbes about a Federal judge ruling in favor of the NFL Players Association in its fight to prevent the league’s owners from taking TV rights fees as lockout insurance. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand says ESPN will be unveiling a […]
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It seems that today is Time Warner-heavy with the press releases as I’ve already posted stuff from company siblings Sports Illustrated and Turner Sports. We have one more post regarding Turner Sports and this is about TNT’s Thursday NBA doubleheader which will have two conference rivalry games, one involving Orlando and Miami (and another helping […]
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As part of its new partnership with the NCAA, Turner Sports is hoping to fill the void with the day in between NCAA Tournament Selection Sunday on March 13 and the FIRST FOUR® games which begin on March 15 (Tax Deadline Day©, by the way), by declaring Monday, March 14 as “National Bracket Day™”. Notice […]
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Just coming out today, a joint Sports Illustrated/CBS News investigation into the preseason college football Top 25 finds that 1 in every 14 player has been arrested and of those, nearly 40% were for serious offenses. That’s pretty alarming. And of the schools that recruited players, only two of the Top 25 bothered to conduct […]
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College Basketball men’s Patriot League Tournament Quarterfinals Colgate at American – CBS College Sports, 7 p.m. Lafayette at Holy Cross – Lafayette Television Network, 7 p.m. Iowa at Michigan State – Big Ten Network, 6:30 p.m. Providence at Louisville – Big East Network, 7 p.m. Charlotte at Xavier – Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia/Fox Sports Ohio, 7 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/1/2011
Happening in the last hour, a federal judge has ruled in favor of the NFL Players Association in its fight against the NFL owners in hopes of avoiding a lockout. U.S. District Court Judge David Doty reversed an earlier ruling that the owners could keep TV rights money if they locked out the players during […]
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Yes, David Hasselhoff, the Hoff, the man who starred in Baywatch and the original Knight Rider, will be featured on Tennis Channel this Sunday. Stop laughing, I see what you’re doing. Hasselhoff will appear on Tennis Channel’s original series, Celebrity Tennis, to talk about his love for the sport. Stop laughing, this is not funny. […]
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On Friday, NESN will start its Red Sox coverage and kick into high gear into coverage of the final two weeks of Hockey East. As you can imagine, this will require an extra channel so NESN will utilize “NESNplus” for the first time this year on Friday. So the Red Sox will go on the […]
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The first official pairing of Golf Channel and NBC Sports as one entity is being hailed as a ratings success by The Group. Viewership for the WGC-Match Play Championship was up 84% over last year on Golf Channel and 71% on NBC. That’s rather astounding when you think of it. NBC says the two day […]
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Time for the links. Lots of stuff to get to. From Sports Business Daily, we learn that the Sporting News has officially taken over Fanhouse. A sad day really as the Fanhouse site was very good and had many good writers on staff (Jay Mariotti excepting). Many writers have lost their jobs while others have […]
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College Basketball men’s North Carolina State at Virginia – Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic Plus/Fox Sports Carolinas/Fox Sports South/Sun Sports Plus, 7 p.m. Illinois at Purdue – ESPN, 7 p.m. Baylor at Oklahoma State – ESPN2, 7 p.m. Alabama at Florida – ESPNU, 7 p.m. Missouri at Nebraska – Big 12 Network, 8 p.m. Ohio State at […]
