0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/15/2012
College Basketball Men’s NCAA Tournament, Second Round East Region Consol Energy Center, Pittsburgh, PA Announcers: CBS/Turner — Kevin Harlan/Len Elmore/Reggie Miller/Marty Snider (sidelines); Dial Global — Scott Graham/Kevin Grevey #8 Kansas State vs. #9 Southern Mississippi — truTV, 12:40 p.m. #1 Syracuse vs. #16 UNC Asheville — truTV, 3:10 p.m. #7 Gonzaga vs. #10 West […]
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I’m writing this past midnight on a Thursday. I want to sleep, but I’ll pound this out to get these off my chest. This will be in bullet form as always. It seems every sports media writer and blogger has offered thoughts and potential landing spots for ESPN’s Big Three Free Agents, Michelle Beadle, Erin […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/14/2012
Starting with the Selection Show this Sunday and then starting in earnest on Friday, March 23, the ESPN Family of Networks, mainly ESPN2 and ESPNU will cover the NCAA Division I Men’s Hockey Championships starting with the Regional Semifinals and heading to the Frozen Four in Tampa, FL. All but two of the games will […]
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There have been a couple of LPGA Tour events so far this year, however, they’ve taken place in Asia. Now the LPGA comes back to America starting this weekend with the LPGA Founders Cup. It kicks off 23 events on the calendar including four round coverage of tour major tournaments such as the Kraft Nabisco […]
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Because CBS/Turner got an interview with Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim, we have this piece of quotage for you. Boeheim discussed Orangemen center Fab Melo being declared ineligible for the NCAA Tournament, however, he really didn’t shed much light into why. But we get quotage and that’s good for you as we see a portion of […]
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On Thursday, NBA TV goes live at 2 p.m. ET and over the following two hours, it will keep track of the wheeling and dealing as teams try to get that one player to put them over the top to the playoffs and possibly the NBA Championship. Vince Cellini will host the Trade Deadline Show […]
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We have a couple of notes from CBS/Turner and CBS Sports Network on the guest analysts each entity will have on their sets. CBS will bring in St. John’s coach and former ESPN analyst to its New York set to join Greg Gumbel, Ernie Johnson, Jr., Charles Barkley, Kenny “The Jet” Smith and Greg Anthony. […]
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NBC Sports Network will be busy over the next week. A total of 11 college or pro hockey games will be aired on NBC Sports Network starting with tomorrow night’s Pittsburgh Penguins-New York Rangers game which marks the second return this season of Sidney Crosby to the ice. It kicks off a busy week for […]
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Time for some linkage on this Wednesday. In case you missed it from early this morning, I wrote a post on how you can avoid paying the $3.99 fee to watch the March Madness Live app on your mobile, iPad or online. And Maine Sports Media has a legal promo code which you can use […]
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Just received this notice from CBS/Turner on last night’s FIRST FOUR™ doubleheader involving Mississippi Valley State-Western Kentucky and BYU-Iona, both of which involved wild comebacks or collapses, whichever you prefer. The ratings were an average 0.9 for both games on truTV. CBS/Turner says that’s in line with last year’s average for all FIRST FOUR™ games. […]
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College Basketball Men’s College Basketball Invitational First Round Delaware at Butler — HDNet, 8 p.m. Western Illinois at Oregon State — HDNet, 10 p.m. National Invitational Tournament First Round Minnesota at LaSalle — ESPN2, 7 p.m. Valparaiso at Miami (FL) — ESPNU, 7:30 p.m. Bucknell at Arizona –ESPN2, 9 p.m. Mississippi at Illinois State — […]
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There has been plenty of confusion over the $3.99 fee to watch the NCAA Tournament online, whether it be through NCAA.com or the March Madness Live app for Android, iPhone and the iPad. First, the original press release promoted the fee and did not clearly explain how you could avoid paying it. Well after fiddling […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/13/2012
In the White House today, President Obama made his picks for the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Tournaments to ESPN’s Andy Katz and Doris Burke. Then he went to Dayton with British Prime Minister David Cameron to watch the Western Kentucky-Mississippi Valley State where they were interviewed by CBS/Turner’s Clark Kellogg at halftime. Anyway, we have […]
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The NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament tips off on Saturday on ESPN2. All games will streamed online through ESPN3. There will be 16 sub-regional sites and thus, 16 announcing teams used. Five women will do play-by-play including Brenda VanLegen, Beth Mowins, Pam Ward, Cara Capuano and Holly Rowe. Beth and Pam will move to the Sweet […]
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Starting this month and running through June, ESPN will mark the 40th anniversary of the landmark Title IX law that gave women equal opportunity in college sports. When the legislation was introduced in Congress, sports was hardly mentioned, but when the bill became law in 1972, colleges applied it to athletic programs and 40 years […]
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Got the viewership numbers from Major League Soccer’s debut on NBC Sports Network. The game on Sunday between Dallas and New York garnered only 82,000 viewers according to the Twitter account,
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I know not many of you will feel it necessary to watch tonight’s FIRST FOUR™ doubleheader of the NCAA Tournament, but I will. Yes, the Tournament doesn’t start in earnest until Thursday, but seeing some postseason college basketball one day after Selection Sunday is always welcome. Let’s do some links for you. Michael Hiestand of […]
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College Basketball Men’s College Basketball Invitational First Round Princeton at Evansville — HDNet, 8 p.m. Washington State at San Francisco — HD Net, 10 p.m. National Invitation Tournament First Round UMass at Mississippi — ESPN2, 7 p.m. Dayton at Iowa — ESPN, 7:30 p.m. Savannah State at Tennessee — ESPNU, 8 p.m. Akron at Northwestern […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/12/2012
Since we did our linkage this morning, there have been several stories worthy of links and they really should not wait until Tuesday. So I’ll do a set of links right now. We start with Jason McIntyre of The Big Lead who reports on a fake tweet about ESPN’s Erin Andrews leaving the network (her […]
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Golf Channel has sent out a press release unveiling the cast of Big Break Atlantis. This upcoming season will be an all-female affair. The 12 golfers are vying for a chance to receive an exemption in an LPGA event and an undetermined (thus far) amount of cash. I love watching Big Break as each show’s […]
