0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/21/2012
MLB Network’s first-ever game show, Baseball IQ, is now down to the Elite Eight. Tonight and tomorrow, the show will whittle down the teams to the Final Four and then the Championship. Representatives from all MLB teams, MLB.com and the Baseball Hall of Fame took part in a single-elimination tournament that brought us to the […]
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Coming up in March, Tennis Channel will air a five part series counting down the 100 Greatest Player in the sport of all-time. The weeklong special titled “100 Greatest of all Time” will air from March 19-23 and will span from the sport’s beginnings all the way through today. You would have to think Chris […]
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College Basketball Men’s Xavier at UMass — A-10 Network: Fox Sports Ohio/The Comcast Network, 7 p.m. Georgetown at Seton Hall — Big East Network: Altitude/Bright House/CSS/MASN/SNY, 7 p.m. Illinois at Ohio State — ESPN, 7 p.m. Kansas State at Missouri — ESPN2, 7 p.m. Auburn at Florida — ESPNU, 7 p.m. Clemson at Georgia Tech […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/20/2012
This week is going to be busy for me. I was cleaning out an office for most of the day and it looks like that will be on the agenda for the rest of the month. I’ll do my best to post what I can here. But just know that I may be scarce. I’ll […]
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College Basketball Men’s UConn at Villanova — ESPN, 7 p.m. Texas Southern at Mississippi Valley State — ESPNU, 7 p.m. Baylor at Texas — ESPN, 9 p.m. DePaul at St. John’s — ESPNU, 9 p.m. Women’s Notre Dame at Louisville — ESPN, 2 p.m. Ohio State at Penn State — ESPN2, 7 p.m. Northwestern at […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/19/2012
The NBA gets three games nationally on Monday as it’s a three day weekend for many Americans. ESPN will air Atlanta at Chicago at 4 p.m. But TNT gets a primetime doubleheader with the Boston Celtics taking on the defending NBA Champions Dallas Mavericks. That will be followed by Portland at the Lakers in the […]
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ESPN has announced disciplinary action against the person responsible for the Asian slur on the network’s mobile site and ESPNews anchor Max Bretos who used the same phrase earlier in the week. ESPN won’t name the headline writer, but needless to say that person has been fired. Bretos has been suspended for a month. ESPN […]
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Looks like I’ll be out for most of the day today. Avoided my day being planned for me on Saturday, but not on Sunday. Multichannel News looks at NBC Sports Group’s Hockey Day in America coverage. Kent Gibbons of Multichannel writes that Fuse which was dropped by Time Warner Cable ahead of its dispute with […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/18/2012
Our first promo for Season 5 of Mad Men is out. It doesn’t reveal much, but I’m sure future promos will give us tastes of what we can expect. As I did for Season 4, I will post videos after each episode. Here’s an example in case you’re a new reader. And let’s take a […]
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The last thing I wanted to wake up to this morning was reaction to racist headlines regarding Jeremy Lin, but that’s what we have on this Saturday. I’ve already written a post about it and I’ve given my opinion about the incident already. I’ll give ESPN the benefit of the doubt feeling the headline was […]
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From the “What Were They Thinking?” Department, someone at ESPN put a “Chink in the Armor” headline at its mobile and tablet site for Jeremy Lin’s first loss. While it was not visible at its desktop site, many people saw it and quickly put screengrabs on Twitter. The headline was removed, but not after an […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/17/2012
HBO’s Emmy Award-winning sports magazine, Real Sports, returns Tuesday with three new stories. It includes an investigation into the tragic plane crash that took the lives of everyone on board from Lokomotiv, one of the best teams in Russia’s KHL. Real Sports also profiles a professional BASE jumper. And the rounds out its new features […]
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Happening now, we’re learning from the New York Times’ Richard Sandomir that the seven week stalemate between MSG Network and Time Warner Cable will be seen by Time Warner customers in New York and the same should hold true for Montreal-Buffalo in Western New York. Richard reports this is not a
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Let’s do your media megalinks since last week you did not get any. Hard to believe that college baseball, college lacrosse and NASCAR seasons are starting up, but they are and they’re included in the Weekend Viewing Picks along with the regular Golf, NBA, NHL, Skiing, Soccer, Tennis and Entertainment recommendations. To your links now. […]
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Fox is in the pits and ready to start its engine for its 12th season of NASCAR. It all begins on Saturday with the Budweiser Shootout, part of the Daytona Speedweeks, leading up to next Sunday’s Daytona 500. The Budweiser Shootout will feature last Sprint Cup season’s top 25 racers including champion Tony Stewart. Then […]
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Saturday, February 18 Boxing Boxing on SHO Extreme: Chris Arreola vs. Eric Molina & Malik Scott vs. Kendrick Releford — Showtime Extreme, 8 p.m. Championship Boxing: Paul Williams vs. Nobuhiro Ishida & Tavoris Cloud vs. Gabrielle Campilo — Showtime, 10 p.m. College Baseball UC Irvine at Southern — MLB Network, 4 p.m. College Urban Invitational, […]
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Men’s Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports on TV Saturday, February 18 College GameDay live from Ann Arbor, Michigan — ESPNU, 10 a.m./ESPN, 11 a.m./ESPN, 8 p.m. BracketBusters Drexel at Cleveland State — ESPNU, 11 a.m. Wichita State at Davidson — ESPN2, noon Buffalo at South Dakota State — ESPNU, 1 p.m. Akron at Oral […]
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College Baseball Washington at San Diego State — the mtn., 9 p.m. College Basketball Men’s BracketBusters Northern Iowa at VCU — ESPN2, 7 p.m. Valparaiso at Loyola Marymount — ESPNU, 9 p.m. Columbia at Princeton — ESPNU, 7 p.m. Women’s Dartmouth at Yale — YES, 7 p.m. College Hockey Northern Michigan at Michigan — Big […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/16/2012
As the conference races tighten up and we get ready for some exciting conference tournament action in two weeks, ESPN ramps up what it calls “Judgement Week” airing key matchups in the major conferences. The ESPN Family will have games from the ACC, Big East, Big 12, Big Ten, SEC, and others in the early […]
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I gave you the ESPN BracketBusters schedule. Here’s the rest of the ESPN Family of Networks schedule for the rest of this week through Sunday. And it includes the BracketBusters games as well. Plenty of games. Some of the highlights include: Wisconsin at Michigan State on ESPN tonight, Ohio State at Michigan on ESPN Saturday […]
