Monthly Archives: May 2012

Primetime & Late Night Viewing Picks

College Baseball ACC Tournament, Greensboro, NC Virginia vs. Clemson — Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/Fox Sports North Plus/Fox Sports South/NESN/Sun Sports, 11 a.m. North Carolina vs. Miami — Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/Fox Sports Arizona/Fox Sports North Plus/Fox Sports South/NESN/Sun Sports, 3 p.m. NC State vs. Wake Forest — Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/Fox Sports Arizona/Fox Sports North Plus/Fox Sports South/NESN/Sun […]

NBC To Offer 800 Million Hours of Olympic Coverage

Ok, maybe that’s being facetious, but NBCUniversal between its cable, over the air and online platforms will offer over 5,500 hours of coverage of the 2012 London Olympics, or known to the International Olympic Committee as the XXX Olympic Summer Games. For NBC, it’s the seventh consecutive Summer Olympics dating back to 1988 in Seoul, […]

ESPN & ESPN2 To Air NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship

It seems like Memorial Day Weekend has crept up on us. Maybe it’s the cooler than normal temperatures in the Northeast this Spring. Maybe it’s due to the fact that days are running together for me. Maybe it’s me. Who knows? Anyway, ESPN and ESPN2 will air the NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championship live from Gillette […]

Primetime & Late Night Viewing Picks

College Baseball ACC Tournament, Greensboro, NC Florida State vs. Georgia Tech — Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/Fox Sports Florida/Fox Sports North/Fox Sports South, 11 a.m. NC State vs. Miami — Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/Fox Sports Arizona/Fox Sports Florida/Fox Sports North Plus/Fox Sports South/NESN, 3 p.m. North Carolina vs. Wake Forest — Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/Fox Sports Arizona Plus/Fox Sports […]

ESPN 3D To Air Last Five Days of Wimbledon Including All Final Matches

ESPN 3D, a network about 64 people across the country have, will air the last five days of tournament action from the hallowed grounds of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club also known as SW19 also known as Wimbledon. Now that ESPN has the full rights to the entire tournament beginning this year, […]

MLB Network Announces Live Game Schedule Through June 30

This in from MLB Network, we have the live game schedule from June 4 through June 30. The schedule includes 15 Interleague games. Among the highlights are Bob Costas and Jim Kaat calling games on consecutive days in New York, first the Tampa Bay Rays at the Yankees on Thursday, June 7 and then the […]

You Need Linkage On That Wall….

Yes you do. It’s overdue. I thought being on unemployment would give me more time for doing the site. Instead, I have less. I don’t know how that’s happened. Anyway, here are some links for you. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand has soon-to-be NBC’s Michelle Beadle saying even she’s sick of the coverage on where she’s […]

Primetime & Late Night Viewing Picks

Cycling Giro d’Italia: Stage 16 — Universal Sports, 9:30 a.m. Golf 2002 U.S. Open, Final Round — Golf Channel, 8 p.m. MLB American League Boston at Baltimore — NESN/MASN2, 7 p.m. Detroit at Cleveland — Fox Sports Detroit/STO, 7 p.m. Kansas City at New York Yankees — MLB Network/Fox Sports Kansas City/YES, 7 p.m. Toronto […]

A Tuesday Sports Media Thoughts Trifecta

Let’s provide you with three thoughts on this Tuesday. You know the drill. After learning that her contract was expiring, leading to speculation that she was about to leave, seemingly leaving, then indeed she was leaving, we finally got the official wordfrom NBCUniversal that Michelle Beadle was joining the company.It’s a good move for her. […]

Preview of HBO's Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel, Episode 182 — Lolo Jones

On Tuesday, HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel will air a feature on Olympic hurdler Lolo Jones and her attempts to get back to the Games. You may remember in the 2008 Communist China Olympics that Jones was leading the women’s 100 meter hurdles and was the heavy favorite to win the gold medal when […]

After A Weekend Off, NBC Sports Network Airs The NHL Conference Finals

Tonight, the NBC Sports Network returns to airing the NHL Stanley Cup Eastern Conference Final tonight. It’ll be Game 4 between the New York Rangers and New Jersey Devils NEW YORK RANGERS SHUT OUT NEW JERSEY DEVILS, 3-0, IN GAME 3 ON SATURDAY TO TAKE 2-1 SERIES LEAD 2012 Stanley Cup Playoffs: Day 41 Game […]

NBC Officially Announces Michelle Beadle Joins Sports and Access Hollywood

NBCUniversal announces that Michelle Beadle, leaving ESPN2’s SportsNation at the end of this month, will be hosting a show for NBC Sports Network as well as being a New York-based correspondent for Access Hollywood. This fits Michelle as she’ll have a role in sports and be seen on some of NBC’s big events such as […]

Tennis Channel Announces French Open Coverage Plans; New Start Time

As the primary cable TV rightsholder for the French Open, Tennis Channel will carry the bulk of the action live from Roland Garros and the red clay in Paris. Ted Robinson, Ian Eagle and Brett Haber will be call matches as will Mary Carillo. On the analysis will be John McEnroe, Martina Navratilova, Lindsay Davenport, […]

CBS To Sublicense ACC, Big 12 & Pac-12 Basketball Games From ESPN

Reported earlier today by USA Today’s Michael Hiestand, CBS Sports has signed a four year deal with ESPN to get a package of college basketball games consisting from the ACC, Big 12 and Pac-12 conferences. While CBS won’t be airing Duke-North Carolina anymore, rest assured that the network will still get some decent matchups. The […]

ESPN2 Announces French Open Coverage Plans; New Start Time

Starting Sunday, the second Grand Slam tournament on the Tennis calendar begins in Paris. Officially known as “Les internationaux de France de Roland-Garros”, the French Open will go for two weeks. ESPN2 will have live tennis action for the first 6 days of the tournament starting at 5 a.m. ET and will last until 10 […]

DEVELOPING: Pam Ward Removed From ESPN College Football Coverage

This being reported by Sports Illustrated’ Richard Deitsch, Pam Ward is being taken off ESPN’s college football coverage. No reason is being given for the change. Ward became the first woman to regularly call college football on television starting in 2000. She began calling Big Ten football games on ESPN2, but more recently had been […]

A Busy Week in Motorsports on ESPN/ABC

The Indianapolis 500 and the NASCAR Nationwide Race in Charlotte, NC headline ESPN/ABC’s motorsports coverage this week. Motorsports This Week on ESPN and ABC Indianapolis 500 Airing for 48th Year on ABC ABC will air the 96th running of the Indianapolis 500 from Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday, May 27, continuing one of the longest-running […]

HBO's Real Sports Returns May 22

The Emmy Award-winning monthly HBO Sports newsmagazine Real Sports returns Tuesday with three new stories and an update. Among the stories you’ll see will be a look at why Korean golfers thrive on the LPGA Tour, a profile of Olympics hurdler Lolo Jones, another profile on the nephew of legendary boxer Micky Ward and the […]

Primetime & Late Night Viewing Picks

Cycling Giro d’Italia: Stage 15 — Universal Sports, 11 a.m. Golf Big Break Atlantis: Abandon Ship — Golf Channel, 9 p.m. Feherty: Donald Trump — Golf Channel, 10 p.m. MLB American League Boston at Baltimore — NESN/MASN2, 7 p.m. Kansas City at New York Yankees — Fox Sports Kansas City/YES, 7 p.m. Toronto at Tampa […]

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